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2010 Souvenir Program — 20th Anniversary
• Flaco Jimenez • Dick Contino • Polkacide • Los Texmaniacs • Culann’s Hounds • The Alex Meixner Band • Tara Linda • Eddie Monteiro • The Creaking Planks
• The Great Morgani • Sourdough Slim • Gaucho • La Familia Peña-Govea • The Truccos • Due Zighi Baci • Duckmandu • Shamalamacord • The Mad Maggies
• II Fuoco with Steve Albini • The Golden State Accordion Club Band • The International House of Accordions • The Creole Belles • JD Limelight • Accordion Babes &
The Hubbub Club Street Band • Rare Cuts /Lemme Adams • The Wild Catahoulas• The Steve Balich Sr. Polka Band • Mark St. Mary • AnD So MuCH MoRE!
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to the 20th ANNIVeRSARY of the cotati Accordion Festival table of Contents
Festival Map ......................................................................................... 4What’s Happening at the Festival? ........................................................ 5Honorary Director: Clifton Buck-Kauffman ........................................ 7Documentary Film “Behind the Bellows” ............................................. 18Steve Balich Sr. - Everything you've ever wanted to know ..................... 51Pat Ryan, Analog Artist in a Digital Age ............................................... 53Art Van Damme and Lloyd Draper Obituaries ................................... 58Schedule of events ....................................................................32-33Sponsors and Thank You! ..............................................................61-62
Performer Biographies:The Alex Meixner Band .................................................................. 27Big Lou’s Polka Casserole ............................................................... 25The Steve Balich Sr. Polka Band ...................................................... 51Dick Contino ................................................................................ 13The Creaking Planks ....................................................................... 57The Creole Belles ............................................................................ 42Culann’s Hounds ........................................................................... 23Duckmandu .................................................................................. 21Due Zighi Baci .............................................................................. 35Gaucho featuring Rob Reich ......................................................... 45Jim Gilman ................................................................................... 50The Golden State Accordion Club Band ......................................... 15The Great Morgani ......................................................................... 39The Hubbub Club Street Band/Accordion Babes ............................ 37Il Fuco with Steve Albini ............................................................... 17The International House of Accordions........................................... 25JD Limelight ................................................................................. 55Flaco Jimenez .................................................................................. 9La Familia Peña-Govea .................................................................. 56Los Texmaniacs .............................................................................. 11The Mad Maggies ........................................................................... 29Mary St. Mary ............................................................................... 43Eddie Monteiro ............................................................................. 17Polkacide ....................................................................................... 19Rare Cuts with Lemme Adams ...................................................... 55Shamalamacord ............................................................................. 36Sourdough Slim ............................................................................. 31Tara Linda ..................................................................................... 49Steve & Mike Trucco ..................................................................... 44The Wild Catahoulas ...................................................................... 41
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what’s Happening at the festival... Main Stages 25 Accordion Acts 9:45 am-8:30 pm
Polka Dance TentSteve Balich Sr. Polka Band and friends 1-5 pm both days
Zydeco Dance Party in Polka TentWild Catahoulas 5:05-6:30 pm both days
Cajun/Zydeco Dance Partyat Friar Tuck’s PubThe Creole Belles Sat.Mark St. Mary Sun.1:00-5:00 pm both days
In Front of Park StageLady of Spain-A-Ring2:00 pm both days.
Accordion Documentary Behind the Bellows presented both days in the Lion’s Club facility beside the Firehouse. See details on page 18.
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By Dave Williams
Ever since 1991, thousands upon thousands of people have crowded La Plaza Park in Cotati for one weekend in August to celebrate the accordion. The annual Cotati Accordion Festival, now in its 20th year, may not be the biggest festival or musical event in Sonoma County, but one would be hard-pressed to find a more fun-filled and quirky form of entertainment. And those who have enjoyed this festival over the years have Clifton Buck-Kauff-man to thank for it.
Rebecca Browne, former president of the Cotati Chamber of Commerce, summed it up best when she said, “If not for Clifton, the accordion festival would not exist, period.”
Clifton Buck-Kauffman had been a volunteer for a number of local service organizations, including the Cotati Cham-ber of Commerce and the Cultural Arts Council of Sonoma County. But it is the accordion festival that will be his lasting legacy. The festival has grown into an event that draws accordion loyalists from all over the country and has made Cotati a destination point for many.
Buck-Kauffman ran the festival for 14 years before stepping away. To honor his years as the producer of the festival, he has been named the honorary direc-tor this year. Buck-Kauffman now lives in Vietnam, but will make his first return to the festival this year. “I’m happy with my life now, but I miss seeing some of the people I worked with and the performers who played at the festival,” Buck-Kauffman said. “There are a lot of wonderful people in the accordion world. I’m looking forward
to coming back and saying hello to some of my old friends, and it’ll be nice to be able to walk around the festival without having any work to do.”
Along with booking acts and negotiat-ing contracts for the festival, Buck-Kauff-man also had to organize the numerous volunteers to keep the festival running smoothly.
“Clifton was definitely the ringleader,” Browne said. “A lot of people came up with so many ideas on how to make the festival successful, but he was able to keep every-body focused. He himself was a volunteer from the beginning and a huge investor. He put a lot of his own money into it. Clif-ton was adamant about reminding people that this was a benefit and we were raising money. He got people to put on their gracious hats and knock down prices on
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Flaco Jimenez
What B.B. King is to the Blues, or George Jones is to traditional country, Grammy-winning accordionist Flaco Jimenez is to the world ofTex-Mex Conjunto.
Jimenez is universally recognized as a leading exponent of the authentic South Texas Conjunto.
While there are many masters of the accordion along the Texas-Mexican border, none have toured Europe, Japan and other points overseas or recorded with as many pop, rock and country artists as Jimenez. By all accounts, Jimenez is an international icon for the accordion-fueled Conjunto genre.
Flaco Jimenez, the pioneering icon of Conjunto and Tejano music, was destined to be a great musician. He grew up in the barrios of San Antonio listening and learn-ing his famous father’s trade. At age seven, Flaco was already performing with his father on stage in front of live audiences. He had acquired a love for the music and would make a career out of it. By the time he was 15, he was in the studios making records as a member of the group Los Caporales and soon thereafter was given his father’s nickname of “Flaco”, which means skinny or thin. After playing the lo-cal saloons and dance halls in San Antonio for years, he acquired a solid reputation as a unique musician and stylist.
In the 1960’s he teamed up with a fellow musician Douglas Sahm, the founding member of the famous rock band The Sir Douglas Quintet, and then went on to New York to jam with Bob Dylan and Dr. John. He traveled the world with Ry Cooder and David Lindley, receiving international acclaim for his contributions to Cooder’s landmark album, Chicken Skin Music. His performances had taken him worldwide, from the barrios of the Southside of San Antonio to the elegant inaugural halls of the White House; from
the gardens of the orient in Japan to the gardens of Central Park in New York City; from the yodel country of the Swiss to the country of Mariachi land of Mexico; and from Gay París to Happy Hollow.
Even though his lyrics may not be understood by some, his music is loved by all. It establishes an international bond of all languages. Flaco’s Conjunto style music is derived from many cultural backgrounds: from its original Tex-Mex style to Honky-Tonk Country and Rock and Roll, to the ever-present Tejano music. His unique style of music has earned him five Grammys, and he is just getting better.
5-time grammy-award winner and pioneer of Conjuncto and Tejano Music — Flaco Jimenez
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Max Baca, the leader of Los Tex-maniacs, was born and raised in Albu-querque, New Mexico. His grandfather was an amateur accordion player, and his father, Max Baca, Sr., played accordion in his own band. Narciso Martínez was one of his father’s idols, and Baca treasured his recordings. At age five, Max started learning accordion. “I was five years old, and I learned the polka ‘Monterrey.’ The second song I learned was ‘In the Mood’.” This openness to incorporating the musical sounds around him into the conjunto music he inherited from this fa-ther portended the future direction of his musical career. Max remembers not hav-ing a normal childhood. In school he got in trouble for writing songs during math
class. “It was all about music for me,” he recalls. His father made Max and his brother Jimmy practice, and by the age of eight, Max was playing electric bass in his father’s conjunto. The group played three or four nights a week, a necessity to bring food to the family table.
Max cherishes memories of the many trips with his father to see Flaco Jiménez perform in the Fronterizo dance club in Lubbock, Texas. People called Jiménez “the dance hall filler” (“el llena salones”) because of the crowds he at-tracted with his dynamic accordion play-ing. Max was seven years old and could barely see over the stage floor. “Man, I’d
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get goose bumps right when these guys were ready to get on the stage.” When he was twelve, Max and brother Jimmy formed their own group, Los Hermanos Baca. One night, Flaco invited them to come on stage with him and play. Flaco remembers the moment: “The people went crazy to see two young kids just tearing it up and doing it right. And for their age, I felt that there was going to be a future for either Jimmy or Max, espe-cially Max because of the bajo sexto. He could handle it real good.” Max idolized Flaco and his music: “It was my ultimate dream to play with Flaco Jimenez.” Twen-ty years later, it came true.
Max had been playing in Albuquer-que with Los Hermanos Baca when Flaco invited him to come to San Antonio and play bajo sexto in his band. Flaco showed him the old techniques and encouraged him to play all twelve strings, in contrast to many other players who ignored the lower strings, relegating the bass line entirely to the electric bass. The freedom to relate to the rock and roll sound of his youth as well to as the traditional conjunto roots from his father appealed to him and felt natural.
Doug Sahm’s death in 1999 led to the decline of the Texas Tornados. Max con-tinued to play with Flaco, but wanted to keep the creative flame of the Texas Tor-nados alive in his own work. In 1997, he created Los Texmaniacs. His concept was to keep the rock and roll dimension of his music going while at the same time stick-ing to the roots of conjunto, especially the accordion and bajo sexto. Over the years, Los Texmaniacs has attracted a cadre of first-rate conjunto musicians. Some of them continue to play regularly in the group. In addition to Max Baca, three others com-plete the conjunto sound: David Farías on accordion, Óscar García on electric bass,
and Lorenzo Martínez on drums.David Farías comes from a prominent
South Texas musical family. His father and uncle were musicians, and the group with his five brothers was known first as Los Hermanos Farías. He started playing music with his family at age eight and played with them professionally for thirty-four years. He remembers missing most school days because he had to play late seven nights a week with his father and brothers to support the family. He parted ways with La Tropa F in 2006, the precise moment in which Baca was looking for a new accordionist for Los Texmaniacs. “Being with the Texmaniacs has been a blessing,” he says. As to his philosophy of playing: “A lot of people tell us we’re having a lot of fun onstage... I’ve learned that, through the years;...you be yourself, be humble. You play from your heart, and music comes out beautiful.”
David’s musical models are many, but Flaco Jiménez and Mingo Saldívar are at the top of his list. Farías credits his accor-dion sound to Jiménez, who tunes David’s accordion reeds to sound like his own.
Óscar García started with accordion when he was five and eventually became good enough to play dual accordions in his father’s band, Los Alegres de Texas. He learned drums, then bajo sexto, then bass, mastering all the instruments of the conjunto. Along the way, he also learned to sing both primera (first) and segunda (sec-ond, harmonizing) vocal parts, making him a complete conjunto musican.
Lorenzo Martínez plays drums and sings on this album, though he is a multi-faceted musician. When Max Baca was on tour in Los Angeles with the Texas Tor-nados in the early 1990s, he met Lorenzo playing in the Texan-style group, Los Rock Angels, and the two began a long-term musical relationship Lorenzo began playing with Los Texmaniacs in 2003 and remained a regular member of the group’s pool of regulars. ▲
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Dick contino The World’s Greatest Accordionist the early years
Dick Contino was born of Italian parentage on January 17, 1930, in Fresno, California. He attended Fresno High and played fullback on the football team until his father found out and forced him to stop. As another activity, Dick played his accordion in the school assemblies and at special functions. His accordion playing popularized him so well that he easily won the class presidency at election time.
Dick was interested in getting on a national broadcast and his ambition was to gain popularity and recognition as an accor-dion soloist and to make popular an instru-ment that had not been too successful in the entertainment world. But jobs were not easy to-find. His family decided finally that they would move to Los Angeles because they thought there were greater musical opportu-nities there for this gifted boy.
Dick’s mother sent him to the local musician’s union to get his transfer to the Los Angeles local. Luck was with Dick Contino, the handsome, talented, unknown accordion player who had been denied the opportunity to demonstrate his ability before the American public. Horace Heidt, the master showman and an old friend of many years standing with audiences everywhere, was coming out of retirement to go back on the air with his “Original Youth Opportunity Program”. The show was dedicated to bringing before the American people not only the finest in entertainment, but also to giving talented young people everywhere an opportunity to display their talents and win recogni-tion in their chosen fields. Horace felt the only way possible to achieve this would be to take his show to the people, so that
those who could not leave the security of their homes to take a chance in Hol-lywood or New York, would have an equal opportunity to pass through the “door of opportunity”.
Instead of a typical Hollywood pre-mier of his new show with much fanfare, Horace scheduled his first broadcast for a typical American city, Fresno, California. An advance-man was sent to Fresno to search for talent to represent that city and compete for fame and fortune with the American public acting as judge.
When Dick Contino walked into the Fresno Musicians’ Union to get his transfer to Los Angeles, one secretary of the union introduced him to Heidt’s talent scout, who asked him to audition for him the follow-ing day. Dick was filled with such hope and
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excitement that he did not tell his folks about the audition, not wanting to build up their hopes if his audition was not successful. The advance man was greatly impressed with Dick’s ability, and arranged for him to audi-tion for Horace Heidt. Horace was equally impressed, and at long last Dick’s dream of appearing on a national broadcast came true when Horace selected him as one of four contestants to appear on the initial Phillip Morris broadcast. It was on the otherwise calm night of December 7, 1946 Dick made his appearance on the first Horace Heidt - Phillip Morris broadcast. Dick gave his rendition of Lady of Spain and the bobby-sox audience stomped, clapped, and yelled
with frenzy, declaring him the winner by a margin of a full 30 points on the applause meter, awarding him first prize of $250.
Thirteen straight weeks of competi-tion later with overpowering results on the applause meter from California to Broad-way, Contino stood up to a microphone at Manhattan’s radio station WNBC and slapped out Bumble Boogie romping away with the first Horace Heidt Quarter Finals and a prize of $750. He became a per-manent member of the Musical Knights and toured theaters and auditoriums from coast to coast. He went on to win the 1948 GRAND FINALS and the first prize money of $5,000.
With the Horace Heidt show as his launching pad, Dick went on to become the most famous accordionist in history.
Dick’s Current Bio Dick Contino, the legendary virtuoso
of the accordion, is once again proving
himself as one of the premier entertainers of our time. Dick stars in main showrooms from Las Vegas to Atlantic City and head-lines many fairs and festivals throughout America. The California native who has become known as the “world’s greatest ac-cordionist,” recently completed a national tour in which he broke house records from coast to coast.
During his career, Dick has played virtually every major stage and television show. He has also starred in films and daytime television. What sets Dick apart is a combination of innovative musical styl-ing and a personal philosophy developed through the experienced turmoil of early stardom and the vicissitudes of show busi-ness. He has attained an inner peace that makes him a delight to be near.
Dick believes, “I allow my life to consume my art, rather than let my art consume me.”
Famous for his distinctive playing technique, the bellow shake, he is able to coax out of the instrument a warmth bor-dering on passion.
Contino is intimate. He presents himself with a feeling of moment to moment spontaneity. Although best known for his million sellers such as Lady of Spain, Granada and Tico Tico, he is equally at ease with current show mate-rial. Contino also surprises audiences with his fine vocal stylings. His populari-ty has only grown as every year thousands of new fans discover this artist’s unique entertainment abilities.
Able to completely captivate an audi-ence of any size with his charm, great looks and technical virtuosity, Contino is nothing short of amazing THERE IS ONLY ONE DICK CONTINO!
“I treat my audience as a loving relationship. I feed it and it feeds me." — Dick Contino
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The Golden State Accordion Club Band
The group was formed out of theGolden State Accordion Club. The band is made up of several types of accordions, including piano, button box and chromatic. These instruments are perfect for our Euro-pean style music. We are strong promoters of polka and waltz music because of the fun, good times, and enjoyment this music gives to our audiences. We believe this ethnic music is wonderful to play, and we have made a commitment to keep it alive.
The Golden State Accordion Club started in 1991 and is a very active orga-nization. We meet three times a month at the following three locations: Sacra-mento Chapter meets every 4th Wednes-day at: Dante Club, 2330 Fair Oaks Blvd., music starts at 6:30 pm. Vacaville Chapter meets the 2nd Tuesday of each month at: Creekside Bar and Grill, 555
Main Street, music starts at 6:30. Hum-boldt Chapter meets every 3rd Tuesday at Humboldt Swiss Club, 4503 Tomkins Hill Road, Loleta, music starts at 7:00 p.m. More info available on line at www.gsaccordionclub.netfirms.com.
The club is also very proud of its scholarship program, which helps make sure accordion music is available to young players. This past year the club gave out 16 scholarships to young-sters ranging in age from 6 to 15. At this point we have given out more the $25,000 in scholarships.
We hope that you will be able to visit us at one of our club meetings; and, if you would like more information about this club or band, stop by our jam tent here at Cotati or you can contact Carole at 707-864-2359. ▲
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Eddie Monteiro
Eddie Monteiro has over 30 years of musical performance in classical, jazz, dance, theater, cabaret and choral ensembles.
Eddie is also the youngest honoree elected to American Accordionists’ Asso-ciation Hall of Fame, November 1994.
Member of Bobb Rosengarden, Skitch Henderson, Peter Duchin, Ray Bloch, Michael Lanin and Marty Ames, orchestras from 1971 to present, perform-ing in the New York Metropolitan area and worldwide.
Featured member of pit orchestra on stage in Broadway revival perfor-mance of Carnival and recording of radio and television jingles for Sesame Street, General Foods, Colgate Palmolive, Anheuser-Busch, AT&T, Bennigan’s Res-taurants, Pontiac and more. Lead artist of innumerable society bands performing throughout the world at social events, political gatherings and corporation
conventions.Eddie serves currently as the Music
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Il Fuco with Steve AlbiniThe Italian phrase “passione e fuoco,” (“passion and fire,”) truly describes the music of singer and multi-instrumentalist Steve Albini.
His performances of Italian music fused with jazz and world rhythms have brought him international acclaim. He has enchanted audiences throughout the United States and Italy with a blend of musical virtuosity and artistic passion.
Some of Steve’s musical influences include: Domenico Modugno, Renato
Carosone, Paco De Lucia, Al di Meola, Gipsy Kings, Chucho Valdes, Bobby Darin, Frank Sinatra, Guiseppe DiStefano, Astor Piazzolla, Art Van Damme, and Richard Galliano. Besides Italian music, Steve enjoys performing the standards of the Great American Songbook (Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter etc.) continued on page next page
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ACCORDION DOCUMENTARY
Seven years in the making, this one hour movie is the first American documen-tary about the beloved but often misunder-stood squeezebox: its history and variety as well as its effect on popular culture.
Film contains insightful interviews with accordion legends such as Anthony Gall-Rini, Guy Klucevsek, and Dick Con-tino among many others. You’ll see the original drawings for the accordion’s pat-ent of 1829 as well as the first design of the concertina. Visit an accordion museum and a factory where the instrument’s many parts are created. Venture through several types of concertinas, button boxes as well as a presentation of MIDI accordions. See historic clips of Guido Diero, Art Van Damme, Lawrence Welk and Frankie Yankovic. Discover why “Lady of Spain” is associated with the accordion. See the first attempt to make a rock-n-roll accor-dion. And listen to where the accordion might be headed in the future.
Screening times are 1:00 pm and 5:00 pm both days and are also held in the Lion’s Club Buiding across the street next to the firehouse. Showing for CAF attendies only. Admission is free.
See page two for a detailed map. ▲
This is truly amazing don't miss it — ED
Behind the Bellows: A Documentary on the Accordion Researched, directed and narrated by Steve Mobia
as well as his own compositions. As a studio musician he is often
called upon by artists, composers, and producers to add his touch to their projects. His latest CD release Italia is a fusion of Italian standards with world, jazz and Latin American musical forms.
Steve uses and performs with: Concerto Accordions, Roland V-Accordions, Bugari Armando accor-
dions, Colombo and Sons accordions, Takemine and Hammer Guitars, Line 6 guitar amplification, Roland Fantom XR synth and sampler sound modules, Byerdynamic Microphones and FBT professional sound. ..
Il Fuoco featuring Steve Albini:John Douglas: saxophones, clarinet and fluteStephen La Porta: drums and percussionMarcie Brown: celloDaniela Innocenti: vocals ▲
Il Fuco with Steve Albinicontinued from last page
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Polkacide
PolkacideCelebrating 25 Years of Accordion Mayham
In 1985 Polkacide played its first gig at San Francisco’s Punk Palace The Mabuhay Gardens “AKA The Fab Mab”. The band’s original lineup included 14 people, most of whom had played with local punk and or art-noise bands including Flipper, Rova Saxophone Quartet, Bad Posture, Tragic Mulatto, and the Geeks. The band had been assembled to play a party for the San Francisco Club For The Deaf, a club for the local deaf community. For some time the Deaf Club had hosted Punk Shows in its Valencia Street apartment/office. The punks got a venue, the deaf folks got some income from the punks and music loud enough for them to feel.
In the fall of 1984, the club was plan-ning a party for it’s members and wanted a band which played loud enough to be felt - enabling dancing - but which didn’t look, “too weird”. A local promoter con-tacted by the Deaf Club was kicking the idea around with some friends when one of them said jokingly, “how about a polka band”?, and one thing led to another.
Bandleader Ward Abronski gathered some traditional polka arrangements, contacted friends from local bands, organized some rehearsals, and Polkacide was born. The band had so much fun rehearsing that when the Deaf Club opted to have a picnic rather than a dance, the newly minted, “polka punks” decided to have a show anyway.
In these last 25 years, Polkacide has played clubs, festivals events, weddings, funerals, performed with a truly eclectic variety of bands including Sun Ra, and has been featured in national and international media.(People Magazine, Interview, SPIN, Nash Bridges Soundtrack and videogame Escape From Lego Island.) What began in irony has developed into one of the wildest, loudest, goofiest dance bands the Bay Area has ever produced. Larger waistlines and higher hairlines maybe in evidence on stage, but so are the tightness of arrangements and level of musicianship which come from 25 years of playing together. They may be knocking on heaven’s door, but these old farts can still take over a room and whip an audience into a beery dancing sweaty mob. See them now before they all end up in the Home For Broken Down Polka Geezers.
Note: According to a ruling by a New York State Court, polka dancing is an, “inherently dangerous activity”. Guests are urged to bear this in mind when planning their evenings wardrobe. Steel-toed boots are recommended.
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about the membersWard abronski: saxophones, whis-
tles, toys, ukulele, vocals, front man. neil Basa: clarinet, ocarina, vocals, sargeant-at-arms. Billy dee Boom: drums. J.X. lovejones: tenor sax, clarinet, toys, vocals. alistair Shanks:bass, vocals, soul patch. lawrence Jarach: trombone, resident EMT, vocals. John Hensley nieuwguyski:trumpets, trombone, baritone horn, vocals,
sex appeal. max Baloian: guitar, percussion, accordion, vocals. aaron Seeman: accordion. ▲
Polkacidecontinued from page 19
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Duckmandu
Aaron Seeman’s onslaught of soloaccordion and vocals has astounded audiences of all shapes and sizes.
Maximum Rock ’n Roll, the premier punk magazine, pronounced him “over the top!” for his note-for-note rendi-tions of the entire first Dead Kennedys album, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables. His repertoire also includes, but is not limited to, 70’s rock, Broadway, klezmer, classical, country, Sousa marches, punk rock, and even a polka or two.
Rather than play hokey accordion versions of these songs, Duckman/See-man seeks to demonstrate that accordi-on and vocals alone can evoke the spirit of the song, whether the hard driving rock of AC/DC, the wide vocal range and sonic landscape of Boston, or the supersonic speeds and driving force of Dead Kennedys.
The accordion received a triple blow to its image in American culture that by the 1960’s had done serious dam-age. First, millions of American chil-dren were forced to play the unwieldy instrument against their wills. Second, Lawrence Welk’s widely watched show focused only on the geekiest, corniest aspects of the instrument. Third, there was the rise of rock ’n roll and the elec-tric guitar.
This is not to say that the Duck-man renounces geekiness, far from it. But America and the world must be reminded what a powerful and versatile instrument the accordion can be.
In addition to his accordioniza-tionizing, Aaron Seeman is a founding member, arranger, and vocalist with San Francisco’s Punk Rock Orchestra, which performs full scale orchestral versions of classic punk songs. He also plays ac-cordion in Shamalamacord, Polkacide, and Red Hot Chachkas. Aaron Seeman
was a founding member of the eclectic Romanian Music-inspired folk group
Fishtank En-semble. He has recorded with Mr. Bungle and Estradas-phere. He is the composer of a modern classical opera “Opium: Diary of a Cure.” He currently resides in Oakland, California. ▲
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Culann's Hounds
Name a musical act after one of the great warriors of Irish legend, and you’d better be prepared to crank out some energetic, larger-than-life per-formances.
That’s precisely why Culann’s Hounds has been a favorite on the San Francisco scene for six years—and is now bringing their self-described punk-Irish-hoedown sensibility to a larger audience. The melo-dies of Steve Gardner (fiddle) and Renee de la Prade (button accordion); harmonies of Mike Kelleher (guitar); and rhythm of Scott Marshall’s bodhran meld with rich vocals that are a staple of the Irish tradition.
The Hounds connect with their audience because they are as adept with traditional arrangements as they are with bringing their eclectic artistic backgrounds to an original brand of Irish-inspired music.
The band boasts an impressive musical pedigree: Gardner played Red Rocks with Grammy winning favorites Blues Traveler; and wows crowds with his work on fiddle, guitar, mandolin and vocals. Kelleher’s ability to connect with and uplift a crowd with raucous humor and hard driving songs is a key; Marshall’s years drumming for punk band The Nuns gives him the straight ahead power that he harnesses on the bodhrán (and instrument he learned at the beginning of his stint with the Hounds); and de la Prade the Berkley graduate (barely, she says) started her love affair with the Cairdin Irish button box backstage at a Pogues show.
Four very different musical paths have converged to create performances
rambles.net described as having “the innate strength of Cuchullain.”
Considering that Cuchullain fought with the ferocity of a berserker, that’s quite a claim for any band. But when you spend a little time speaking with members of the group, or attend a live show, you see the proof: there’s creative zeal simmering beneath the surface that bursts out when these artists start talking about Irish music.
In their early years, Culann’s Hounds opened for musical greats Paddy Keenan, Martin Hayes, Liam Clancy, Lunasa, Tommy Peoples, The Boys of the Lough, Solas, Susan McKeown, Josephine Marsh, Gary Shannon, Andrew McNamara, Tempest and Seven Nations. They made their debut as a headlining act at the Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts in
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Walnut Creek in 2000. Recurring gigs for a variety of West Coast events followed soon after.
In 2006, Culann’s Hounds debuted their second CD, Year of the Dog, at a March 17 headliner at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. The band’s latest is enriched by collaborations with Blues Traveler harmonica virtuoso John Popper; East Clare button accordion mas-ter Andrew McNamara; Irish singer Susan McKeown; bassist Ben Bernstein; and Hounds alum Conall O’Raghallaigh, one of the West Coast’s best uilleann pipers.
Popper’s collaboration on Year of the Dog, and the musicians’ openness to stretching their genre it represents, speaks to where Culann’s Hounds is likely to find itself next: grounded in the mythic energy and spirit of traditional Irish music, and performing in front of entirely new audi-ences yearning for something different. ▲
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The International House of Accordions
The InTernaTIonal house ofaccordIons celebrates the many
American ethnic accordion styles. Big Lou covers French and Polish
traditions, with special guests Val Romero handling the
Tex-Mex side of the street and Renee De La Prade pumping
out the Cajun and Irish tunes.
The non-accordion players include David Golia (bass)
Gene Reffkin (drums), Annelise Zamula (saxophone),
Greg Stephens (trombone) and David Phillips (pedal steel guitar).
Read more about them at www.accordionprincess.com ▲
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BeSt WISheS to
THE CoTATI ACCoRDIon FESTIVAL 2010Happy 20th
to both our organizations!
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The Alex Meixner Band
© Jeanine Flaton
alex meixner2007 Grammy Nominee
Alex Meixner’s perforMingcareer began at age 6 with his two sisters and father in an ethnic folk ensemble. From these early experiences through headline appearances at music festivals throughout the US; concert performances with the London Symphony Orchestra, Sandy Duncan and his own jazz and ethnic ensembles; as well as over 50 recordings (in-cluding a 1994 Grammy award winner), Meixner has devel-oped a unique musical mix that appeals to a wide cross-section of audiences.
Meixner’s formative musi-cal studies were on piano and piano accordion, but he quickly branched out on drums, diatonic button accordion, bass and trumpet, which is now his main instrument. This instru-mental versatility is combined with a musical background that has included intense studies and performance of jazz, classical, pop, polkas and many ethnic folk music genres with some of the lead-ing artists in the world. His talents in music and comedy were even featured on the Tonight Show on NBC in 2004. Most recently, his “Polka Freak Out” CD with Bubba Hernandez garnered a Grammy nomination in December, 2007.
Currently based in Allentown, PA, Alex is performing as a solo artist and with numerous touring ensembles. His solo programs: “Fascinating Rhythms of the World” focus on the fusion of Slavic folk music and Jazz, but also include the inflections of folk, pop and classical styles from Latin America, Africa and
other sections of Europe. This music is the basis for a series of multi-cultural music education seminars and perfor-mances which are currently available through the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts “Artists in Education” program.
Alex also leads or co-leads numer-ous musical groups including The Alex Meixner Band, Polka Freak Out and Jazz Visions. These groups perform for various public and private functions throughout North America. Whether you are looking for sure fire crowd pleasing family entertainment, some-thing for the senior audience, classy jazz for a reception or a unique party band- Alex Meixner will work tirelessly to provide the perfect mix for your event.
When Alex is not performing with all of these groups, he is devoted to bringing music to students through educational clinics, as well as his private teaching. ▲
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The Mad Maggies
Hard to describe, easy to love. These SF Bay Area musicians kick up some dust with their own style of rowdy folk fusion as they swerve effortlessly from Celtic rock to ska, from Cajun/Zydeco to klezmer, from polka and swing to the high seas and beyond.
All this careening across the musical map began in 2004 when accordionist, Maggie Martin assembled fellow musi-cians to record a CD of her compositions. They’ve been at it since and this year are celebrating the release of their 4th CD, “Flashbacks - the Mad Maggies play vintage hits”.
The Mad Maggies have delighted audiences wherever they play. They’ve garnered radio play around the world, and even caught the ears of director Paul Haggis who used their “Sleepy Maggie” in a TV pilot.
They’re happy to be back again at the Cotati Accordion Festival where accordi-ons rule and the crowd knows how to have fun.
Accordionist Maggie Martin leads
this wild ensemble and is joined byJohny Blood: tubaBilly Bob Shorts: drumsAdrian Gormley: alto saxRhian Robinson: clarinet, whistleLewis Wallace: bass guitarGary “GDub” Wium: guitarFor booking and more information
visit www.themadmaggies.com ▲
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Meetings open to the Public.We meet every third Monday of the month.
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Congratulations Cotati Accordion Festival on 20 Years!
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Sourdough Slim
ToTAlly reTro. HilAriously enTerTAin-ing. Sourdough Slim is a hoot to say the least. From the moment this accor-dion squeezin’ Will Rogers swaggers on stage, it’s apparent to everyone that they’re in for a rollicking good time. Ten gallon funny-man Sourdough Slim, transports us to a whimsical world where vaudevillian camp and cowboy lore intermingle to produce grins galore.
Slim, aka Rick Crowder, is a well traveled veteran of stages ranging from The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering to The Lincoln Center’s Roots of Ameri-can Music Festival and the Carnegie Hall Folk Festival. His fast-paced stage show combines cowboy singing, award winning yodeling and comedy, accom-paniment on accordion, guitar, ukulele and harmonica and a keen knowledge of the traditional Western repertoire. His truly astounding yippie-ti-yi style won him the 2001 Will Rogers Award for Yodeler of the Year.
As cowboy Magazine editor Darrell Arnold puts it, “There’s no one else out there like Sourdough Slim. An accordion playing, yodeling, tongue-in-cheek, cow-boy-dressed entertainer deluxe. Catchy,
uplifting, irresistible, jolly fun.” The Allentown Morning Call proclaims him to be a “One-man Western extravaganza!”
The East Bay Express calls him “The most entertaining cowboy singer-yodeler-accordionist extant!” And Via Magazine heralds him “Entertainer extraordinaire!”
Born in Hollywood, California, Rick Crowder spent much of his child-hood on a family cattle ranch in the Sierra foothills. But as he explains, “my true calling as a cowboy was not on the range but rather, on the stage.” A child-hood cut-up, he developed his comic character, honed his musical and yodel-ing skills and garnered the nick name “Slim” while performing in several trav-eling western bands in the 1970’s and 80’s. Sourdough Slim emerged in 1988 when he came up with the idea to meld his experiences into a solo act based on a comical accordion playing yodeling cowhand. He has never looked back.
His seasoned gift for connecting with audiences from the Autry Museum to The Kennedy Center is a true testa-ment to the irrepressible talent and dedi-cation of this unique entertainer. ▲
Sourdough SlimLast Of The Vaudeville Cowboys
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Motor Dude Zydeco
9:45-10:15 The Golden State Accordion Club Band10:20-10:50 Due Zighi Baci10:55-11:25 The Accordion Babes/The Hubbub Club Street Band11:30-12:00 Rare Cuts with Lemme Adams12:05-12:45 Gaucho featuring Rob Reich12:50-1:05 The Great Morgani1:10-1:55 The Alex Meixner Band2:00-2:25 Lady of Spain-A-Ring
(Audience Participation, see page 49)
2:30-3:10 Eddie Monteiro featured by Roland Accordions
3:15-4:00 the legendary Dick Contino4:05-4:20 The Great Morgani4:25-5:05 The Creaking Planks5:10-5:25 Duckmandu5:30-6:10 Culann’s Hounds6:15-6:35 JD Limelight6:40-7:40 Polkacide
Schedule of Events
Saturday, August 21st
cajun/Zydeco Dance Partyat Friar Tuck’s Pub 8201 Old Redwood Hwy.
South of West Sierra Entrance See Map on Page 2.
1:00-5:00 pm Saturday The Creole Belles1:00-5:00 pm Sunday Mark St. Mary
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Polka Tent with Huge Wooden Dance Floor
Polka Dance PartySteve Balich Sr. Polka Band & Friends 1-5 pm Saturday and SundayAlso appearing: 10:00 am to Noon Jim Gilman
Zydeco Dance Party with The Wild Catahoulas5:00-6:30 pm both days - Polka/Zydeco Tent
Schedule of Events
Sunday, August 22nd9:45-10:15 The Golden State Accordion Club Band10:20-10:50 The Truccos10:55-11:30 The International House of Accordions11:35-12:10 Sourdough Slim12:15-12:50 La Familia Peña-Govea12:55-1:10 The Great Morgani 1:15-1:55 The Mad Maggies2:00-2:25 Lady of Spain-A-Ring
(Audience Participation, see page 49)
2:30-3:10 Il Fuoco featuring Steve Albini3:15-4:00 the legendary Dick Contino4:05-4:20 The Great Morgani4:25-5:15 The Alex Meixner Band5:20-5:40 Shamalamacord5:45-6:05 Los Texmaniacs6:10-6:30 Tara Linda6:35-7:25 Flaco Jimenez
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Due Zighi BaciOne tenor, one accordionist, hours of memorable music!
Specializing in French chanson, Italian and Neapolitan canzone, Two Little Gypsy Kisses works its charm and whisks you away to magical, far away places like the old dance halls of Paris or the music salons of Italy and Old Europe. This duo promises to transport you with their authentic, enchanting rendi-tions of enduring European salon and cafe music dating back to the 1850s through the 1960’s Pop-Italian and Pop-French songs. Whether it’s Verdi, de Curtis, Bixio, Mudogno, Piaf, Brel, Aznavour or Trenet, you will fall in love with these timeless, sentimental, and artful arrangements true to the composers’ intent.
Tenor Michael Van Why holds a B.A. in music from SSU where he studied Vocal Performance. He
specializes in 20th century French chanson, Italian/Neapolitan canzone and German art song. He is frequently featured in leading musical theater roles in the bay area, but his true love is solo concert work. Michael has most recently been nominated for 2011 Sonoma County Artist Awards for Performing, Music and Literary Arts and is currently working on a recording of the American song book. He is the founder and executive director of Project Applause, a non-profit organization based in Sonoma County that provides vocal oppor-tunities for emerging, classically trained singers to be help them gain experience. www.projectapplause.com
Sheri Mignano Crawford, learned to play accordion in “Goosetown” the Italian ghetto in San Jose. She went on to earn various college degrees, teaching humani-ties at the college level. Upon retirement, she published “Mandolins, Like Salami,” a social history of 20th century Italian American mandolinists, and arranges dance music in the ballo liscio style. Her mandolin ensemble can be heard Saturday mornings at Caffè Trieste, North Beach. Her dance band Zighi Baci has appeared on the Cotati stage in 2005 and 2006. She’s currently at work on a social history of accordionists in the bay area. www.zighibaci.com Due Zighi Baci* is honored to be scheduled on Saturday morning to kick off the 20th an-niversary festival in Cotati. We hope you’ll be a part of the fun as well!
*Due Zighi Baci, pronounced DEW-a ZIG-gee BOTCH-ee, is Italian dialect and means Two Little Gypsy Kisses. [email protected] ▲
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Shamalamacord
Ziggie's MusicDionne Hauke, Owner
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They formed an essential element of the acclaimed Gypsy band, “Fishtank Ensemble.”
Shamalamacord draws from a wide range of styles, including Balkan Gypsy music, Classical, Klezmer, 1920’s Jazz, tra-ditional and popular Japanese Music, and original compositions. As a duo and as solo players they are each actively engaged in extending the capabilities of their instru-ments. The Tsugaru shamisen is the most powerful sounding and popular of the three major types of shamisen, the Tsugaru style comes from Northern Japan. It has enjoyed a resurgence among young people in the last twenty years in Japan, and is therefore a tradition very much alive.
Mike Penny: Within two years of pick-ing up the instrument, he competed in the annual Kanagi Tsugaru Shamisen com-petition in Northern Japan and received the “nyuusho” or “runner-up” award in his class out of a field of 200, an honor never before bestowed on a non-Japanese player. He also plays in the Tsugaru Shamisen trio, Monsters of Shamisen.
Aaron Seeman: Also performs solo as Duckmandu, he holds a B.A. in Piano and a Masters in Composition from UC Santa Cruz. As Duckmandu, he has
produced three CDs using accordion and voice to produce renditions of Punk Rock, Mainstream Rock which evoke to an astonishing degree the original music. Also as Duckmandu he recorded a solo CD of more traditional material. ▲
Shamalamacordis Mike Penny on tsugaru Shamisen
and Aaron Seeman (Duckmandu) on Accordion.
© Jeanine Flaton
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Hubbub Club Street Band
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Lady of Spain-a-Ring
in front of the Hexagonal Stage prior to
2:00 pm
Join us for the World Famous
Bring your accordion and join us for a rousing rendition of the Lady of Spain 2:00 pm in front of stage
An ensemble of 20+ musicians and dancers who make music together in a funky, fun fashion to promote, uplift, and support our local communities. We play a wide range of music, drawing on the traditions of brass bands, street bands, and popular music from around the world. You can see us at a variety of community
events, including benefits, concerts, rallies, protests, and gigs at local venues. Our diverse, mixed-level, multi-generational group is committed to a non-hierarchical, democratic process. We believe that music is a powerful tool for social change, and we strive to help heal the earth and her people in all aspects of our work. ▲
You’ve seen their pin-up photos, now meet the real women behind the accordions! MC Tom Torriglia and the fabulous Sonoma County movers and shakers, the Hubbub Club Marching Band will present the Accordion Babes in all their smiling, sparkling, kitschy glory.
Bring your accordion and join us
tom torriglia & the hubbub Club Marching Band present...
The Accordion Babes Beauty Pagent
Look for us near the souvenir booth after
the show and an Accordion Babe will
sign your calendar.
BRAVO!
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Gold finish with Flaco’s signatureButtons: 31 (3 rows)Notes: 62 diatonicBase buttons: 12Weight: 4.0 kg
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Buy Your Raffle tickets for a chance to win this fabulous FLACo JIMeNeZ from hohner.
Thank you again to Hohner U.S.A. and Gilbert Reyes for their generous donation of yet another accordion to the Cotati Accordion Festival.
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Meets on the second Wednesday of each month (except September)at the Escalon Community Center, 1055 Escalon Ave., Escalon, 7 p.m.
Accordion enthusiasts and performers welcome.
Meeting monthly since 1999
Best wishes for a successful20th Annual Cotati Accordion Festival
from the
Proudly supporting club members Steve and Mike Trucco– appearing on the festival stage Sunday at 10:20 a.m.
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The Great MorganiThe Great Morgani
THIS IS THE GREAT MORGANI'S ELEVENTH YEAR, OF OUTRAGEOUS PERFORMANCES AT THE COTATI ACCORDION FESTIVAL.
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The Wild Catahoulas Zydeco tent5:00 - 6:30 p.m.Saturday & Sunday
The Wild Catahoulas*is the newest Cajun/ Zydeco band in the North Bay, merging the tradi-tional Cajun French two-steps and waltzes from Southwestern Louisiana with the more contemporary Zydeco and New Orleans sounds. In other words, a GREAT dance band.
Fiddler Gus Garelick comes to the band with years of Cajun experience from such groups as Queen Ida and the Bon Ton Zydeco Band, Al Rapone and Zydeco Express, The Sonoma Swamp Dogs, and The Cajun Coyotes. Joining Gus is accordion maestro Dennis Hadley, formerly with The Cajun Coyotes and currently with The Hot Frittatas, Allegra Broughton and Sam Page, vocals, guitar, and bass, with Solid Air, and drummer Don Connolly, with the Sonoma County Love Choir. The wild Catahoulas will get everyone on the dance floor. When you’re ready to “laissez les bon temps roulez,” this is the band to call!Booking and information; (707) 526-7763 email: [email protected]*The official state dog of Louisiana: hard-working and bi-lingual. A survivor. ▲
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The Creole Belles Friar tuck’s Pub1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
SATuRDAY
The Creole Belles are steppingout with a long-awaited debut CD on Arhoolie Records. The California based all-women band is well known in the Cajun music scene for bringing the raw, driving authenticity of southwest Louisi-ana dancehalls to their shows.
Produced by the Belles and Greg Landau, who has produced Susana Baca, Pete Seeger and many others, and mas-tered by two-time Grammy winning en-gineer John Greenham, the Creole Belles’ self-titled CD was released by Arhoolie on April 1st, 2008.
Popular zydeco musician and Loui-siana native Andrew Carrière is a regular special guest and contributes Creole French vocals and some powerful accordion to the CD, as exemplified in the medley of tunes learned from his late father, legend-ary fiddler Bébé Carrière of the renowned Carrière Brothers from Lawtell, Loui-siana. Andrew and many people from southwest Louisiana emigrated to Cali-fornia in the last half century and brought their music with them, inspiring a new generation of California musicians like
fiddler Delilah Lee Lewis and accordionist Maureen Karpan to travel to Louisiana to learn to play the music.
The new CD showcases the dynamic collaboration between Andrew’s soulful Creole roots and the Belles’ heartfelt ex-pression of the music they have embraced over the years.
DELILAH LEE LEWIS (FIDDLE) The Creole Belles are distinguished by the high-energy, traditional fiddle style of Delilah, who has been playing Cajun music for the 27 years.
MAUREEN KARPAN (ACCOR-DION) Maureen has been playing Cajun accordion since 1992. For seven years she led the Bay Area Cajun band Frog Legs. She has spent months at a time in Loui-siana to play Cajun music, but her main teacher and mentor has been the late great Danny Poullard.
KAREN LEIGH (GUITAR) Karen has been playing traditional rhythm guitar since 1974, including times with Dewey Balfa, Canray Fontenot, and
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Mark St. Mary Friar tuck’s Pub1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
SunDAY
Danny Poullard at national festivals.JULAY BROOKS (ACOUSTIC
BASS) Julay brings a lifetime of musical experience to the Creole Belles. She studied classical piano for 20 years and now teaches 50 students in Piedmont and Oakland.
ANDREW CARRIER (VOCALS, TRIANGLE) From Lawtell, Louisiana, accordionist and singer Andrew plays regularly with the Cajun Classics, the All Star Cajun band, and Suzy and Eric
Thompson. Andrew has been our “Spe-cial Guest” for so many years that our band name could be, “The Creole Belles with special guest Andrew Carrier.”
MYRNA COOPER (RUBBOARD) A seasoned bay area musician, Myrna has performed with many of the Bay Area’s finest including LeRoy Thomas and the Zydeco Roadrunners. and many others.
And on our first CD: KAREN CELIA HEIL (ACOUSTIC BASS & FIDDLE) Karen Celia, longtime Bay Area music veteran, played acoustic stand up bass with the Belles for many years. ▲
Mark St. Mary’s Louisiana Blues and Zydeco
This is a 5-member band that plays Traditional Louisiana Blues and Zydeco Music and was awarded the “Best Zydeco Band” in 2007 by Bay Area Blues Society.
Mark’s been playing his traditional style of Zydeco music since the age of 15 and his music is so infectious that once the band starts to play the crowd does not want him to stop, Yelling “Play One More” over and over. Mark sings in both English & Creole French.
We pride ourselves in being able to give the crowd a variety, Zydeco, Blues, R&B and even a lil’ Country. In North-ern California I have been dubbed “King of the Delta”.
Followers of this music loves the excitement it brings and the joy they get from dancing to it i.e. Waltz, Two-Step, line dance and a down home Flat-Foot Zydeco.
We play Festivals, Mardi Gras, Wed-
dings, Anniversaries, Private Parties, Corpo-rate Events, New Years and/or whatever you like. We will perform whatever the theme.
With Mark’s gift of gab he comes prepared to really put on a show, making you not wan’ta sit down. We guarantee to keep you entertained, keeping the skirt-tails floppin’ and the Cowboy boots stompin’.
Band members include: Mark St. Mary - Accordion Player/Vocalist; David Rees - Bass/Backup Vocalist; Scott gringoWilliams - Lead Guitar; Steve Namle – Drummer; Bobby Benoit’ - Rub Board; Jasper Zumo - Rub Board.
LET’S HAVE A PARTY YA’LL!!! ETOI! ETOI!! ▲
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Steve & Mike Trucco
This father and son duo fromStockton, CA, in the heart of the Central Valley, has been playing together for over twenty years.
Steve Trucco began taking accor-dion lessons in 1949 at the age of ten. His teacher, John Pisacco, was trained by the Pezzolo brothers of San Francisco and at that time was the finest teacher in the Valley. Mr. Pisacco stressed good timing and an articulate touch on both keyboard and basses. After six years of training and countless hours of practice, with his sister watching and listening closely, Steve began his professional career with a small, four-piece group in the Stockton area. That was 55 years ago. Today, Steve, now 71 years old, still has the same four-piece group and is still available for weddings, parties or wher-ever they will let him play.
Steve’s son Michael, who is 34 years old, has been playing the accordion for over 25 years. Beginning lessons at nine years old, he studied under Pam Tur-betti of Stockton, CA. After five years of lessons, Michael began playing profes-
sionally with his father’s group and also on his own. Through high school and even college 3000 miles away from home, Michael never had any thoughts of giving up the art. Now married to his wife Lisa, Michael still plays accordion in his Dad’s band, as well as playing bass guitar in a blues and rock band, The Neo Hipsters. Their daughter Chloe, now two years old, has her own toy accordion and has already “performed” on stage with her Dad and her Nonno.
In 2006, The Trucco wives, Judy and Lisa, formed “Accordions Rock!!!”, a business selling t-shirts, hats, aprons…anything they could put their logo on. They started a website, accordionsrock.com, and have shipped items to accordion lovers all over the country.
Steve and Michael play mostly Italian waltzes and polkas. Their unique style of playing duets has been honed to almost an art form. Even though they are two separate accordionists, when they play together, they seem to meld into a single accordionist. Maybe being father and son has something to do with that. Enjoy! ▲
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Gaucho is an all-star sextet featuring guitarists Dave Rickets and Mike Groh; internationally renowned gypsy jazz bass-ist, Ari Munkres; accordion virtuoso, Rob Reich; the old-time percussion stylings of Pete Devine, playing drum kit, washboard, jug bass, toy skulls and more; and scream-ing horns from legendary Tom Waits’ side man, Ralph Carney.
Amy Tan, San Francisco resident and author of The Joy Luck Club, said, “There’s a tiny bar in the Mission called Amnesia (853 Valencia Street, +415 970 0012, amnesi-athebar.com) which is fantastic, especially on Wednesdays when a band called Gaucho plays gypsy jazz à la Django Reinhardt. Dancers dress in 1930s costumes and do wild dancing. You can watch or get on the floor and look ridiculous. Fortunately, it is dark.”
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what they were charging for their services. The reality was that it was all a non-profit organization to provide something for the local youth groups.”
Browne served as co-producer for 14 years with Buck-Kauffman and left the festival the same year. Both had different reasons for leaving but remain proud of their time with the festival.
“I moved out of the area and to con-tinue would have been too difficult,” Brown said. “But if I still lived in the area, I’d definitely be involved. I did it for 14 years, so I must have loved it.”
Buck-Kauffman began attending the Burning Man Festival in Nevada, which began the day after the accordion festival ended. A couple of years ago the accordion festival moved its schedule up a week to
avoid competing with other festivals that were scheduled for the same weekend.
When the accordion festival was con-ceived, the economy was in the doldrums and several school programs, including music and arts, had to be trimmed from school districts’ budgets. Buck-Kauffman was deeply troubled by those developments and began brainstorm-ing for ways to help provide monies to keep music and arts programs alive in the local schools. Finally, he and renowned accordion-ist Jim Boggio came up with the idea for this particular event.
“We thought it would be interesting to have an accordion festival that would bring different types of music together, whether it was jazz, polka, Cajun, gypsy or tango,” Buck-Kauffman said. “We wanted it to be something that would appeal to people of all ages. We knew there were quite a few older people into it and we were a little surprised with how many younger people
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like the accordion as well.”The CAF initially was a free event for
the first three years, but in order to produce the types of desired revenue, Buck-Kauff-man knew certain changes had to be made. The biggest and most effective change was erecting a fence around La Plaza Park and charging admission.
“The festival is a fundraiser, so it was difficult to generate the type of funds we wanted to generate without charging admission,” Buck-Kauffman said. “And we needed it to prevent people from com-ing in and misbehaving. Since one of our focal points was with beer and wine, it was imperative we had the fence because of insurance issues. Plus, we needed more control over the venue.”
The fence around the park has been a bone of contention and an inconvenience for locals because traffic had to be redirect-ed around the park. But time has proved that the benefits far outweigh the incon-venience as evidenced by the hundreds of
thousands of dollars donated to local youth organizations.”
The first year of the festival proved to be successful enough for Buck-Kauffman to continue with it. He knew he had an event that would draw nationally simply by look-ing at some of the locales of the names on the tickets sold for raffles.
“No one was more surprised at the enthusiasm for accordion music than me and the other people producing the event,” Buck-Kauffman said. “We had a nice turnout the first year, with thousands of people and that was an eye opener. It was also nice to see where we had a lot of people coming from all over the United States.”
The first festival featured Anthony Gallarini as the honorary director, Art Van Damme, who recently passed away and Sourdough Slim.
“The first year was special, especially having Anthony Gallarini,” Buck-Kauffman
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said. “He was probably in his 90s and he was a living legend. We just lost Art Van Damme, and he was a real close friend of the festival. He was a true gentleman and a world-class performer. Sourdough Slim really didn’t have a lot of accordion music in his act, but it sort of changed his focus a little bit.”
A festival of this size could not come together without the contributions of those such as Marian Kelly, Steve Balich, Jim Boggio, Richard Cullinen, Eric Kirchmann, Pat Ryan and Keith Blackstone. “They gave the event the kind of credibility that made it so accordionists wanted to come here and perform,” Buck-Kauffman said. “And the artwork by Pat Ryan means a lot to the per-formers and has added to the quirkiness and people’s appreciation for the event.”
Buck-Kauffman’s initial vision for the accordion festival was where it didn’t matter if one was an accordion virtuoso as long as the performer was entertaining. And he didn’t want it to take on the form of a com-petition. He also wanted the music to be continuous with minimal breaks between acts. “If this festival was like a competi-
tion, it wouldn’t be appealing to anyone but other accordion players,” Buck-Kauffman said. “The multicultural focus of inviting performers from different genres like those who play tangos, polkas, jazz, Cajun and gypsy music have made our event unique. Subsequently other festivals have used our concept and format.”
Some of the entertainers that imme-diately come to Buck-Kauffman’s mind include Dick Contino, Polkacide and Those Darn Accordions. One of the things that made Buck-Kauffman proud of his time running the festival was how those involved rarely had to deal with ego problems from the performers.
“Those who performed were appre-ciative of the opportunity to perform,” Buck-Kauffman said. “There weren’t too many divas. People in the accordion world are level-headed and love performing before larger crowds.”
Since his departure, the Cotati Ac-cordion Festival continues to draw sizable crowds, those in attendance continue to have fun, the event continues to create a buzz in the community and the local organizations continue to benefit from what he started.
That’s a legacy that would make any-one proud. ▲
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original accordion Festival committee: Left to Right. Back Row: Eric Kirchmann, Rebecca Browne, Jim Boggio, Marian Kelly, Linda Rook, Pat Vulgaris, Vivian Weissenburger, Barbara Harris. Front Row: Richard Cullinen, Clifton Buck-Kauffman, Keith Blackstone. Not present: Steve Balich, John Olsson and Sean O'Connell (photographer).
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Tara Linda
equipped wiTH A sulTry voice, buTTon Accor-dion, and baritone ukulele, chanteuse Tara Linda plays original roots rock; blending spaghetti western and Latin torch. A Hohner-endorsed artist, she writes new tangos, waltzes, and boleros, and skirts global genres to blend them into a style uniquely hers.
Tara Linda's performances are de-scribed as “mesmerizing” (oakland Tribune/san Jose Mercury news) and her vocals “rich” and “sultry” (The Muse's Muse). Influenced by the early torch singers of American and Latin American cultures, Tara writes original music grounded in the Texas traditions she grew up with; Americana, blues, rock, and jazz. She has a world music heritage (Indian) and sings in Spanish and English.
Recently featured in the San Francisco Bay Area as the face of the new “Accordioni-sta” for the rising popularity of the accor-dion (oakland Tribune/san Jose Mercury news/contra costa Times, Nov 19, 2009), Tara Linda has been a featured artist in the 2009, 2010, and soon 2011 Accordion Babes Pinup calendar/cds- each a wildly successful “fun, girl-powered makeover for
the accordion.” These fast selling calendars have become collector’s items nationally and internationally, and feature pictures and music from all the featured Babes.
Tara Linda performs from China to Virginia, from festivals to house concerts. She has just finished a tour of China and Mongolia as a guest performer with 2010 Grammy Winners Los Texmaniacs. Whether solo or backed by a full band; Tara Linda captivates. For current festivals, she tours with her Tortilla Western bands the “The Gila Men” or “Big in Texas” featuring stand-up bass, guitars, horns, violin, drums/percus-sion, and accordion.
Tara Linda lives in Oakland, CA. She performs 2 styles of music:
~ Tortilla Western/Americana Rock, 1930’s Conjunto/Tex-Mex; and
~ Jazzy blues, Latin torch.
New CDTortilla Western Serenadehas been in the top 20 U.S. Roots Music Report Charts the last 3 weeks for Roots Rock radio airplay.(Now at #12 for week of July 23, 2010)
discography:Tara Linda: (2010) Tortilla Western serenade Tara Luna & Luna Nueva (2008) New Moon. Tara Linda (2006) Fool’s Journey Polliwog (2001) Musical Score to hamlet’s Woman (Theater)The Succulents (1999) The Witch, the sailor, & the enchanted Monkey ▲
Tara Linda “Cinematic, Charismatic, and Tarantino-matic” Billy Stull, Legendary Audio, TX
Americana ~ Tortilla Western ~ Latin Torch
“Tara Linda songs are intelligent, sexy, funny, heart rending.”
~ David N. Pyles, Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange, 5/2010
"[Tara] Linda seduces like a siren…and like a poet, the lyrics challenge and enchant…with playful, truly self-possessed vocals
so gilded you'd swear she's the Latina Fiona Apple” ~ Hector Saldaña, San Antonio Express-News, 5/2010
New CD- Tortilla Western Serenade
has been in the top 20 U.S. Roots Music Report Charts for the last 3 weeks for Roots Rock radio airplay.
(Now at #12 for week of July 23, 2010) Equipped with a sultry voice, button accordion, and baritone ukulele, chanteuse Tara Linda plays original roots rock; blending spaghetti western and Latin torch. A Hohner-endorsed artist, she
writes new tangos, waltzes, and boleros, and skirts global genres to blend them into a style uniquely hers. Tara Linda's performances are described as "mesmerizing" (Oakland Tribune/San Jose Mercury News) and her vocals “rich” and "sultry" (The Muse's Muse). Influenced by the early torch singers of American and Latin American cultures, Tara writes original music grounded in the Texas traditions she grew up with; Americana, blues, rock, and jazz. She has a world music heritage (Indian) and sings in Spanish and English. Recently featured in the San Francisco Bay Area as the face of the new “Accordionista” for the rising popularity of the accordion (Oakland Tribune/San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa Times, Nov 19, 2009), Tara Linda has been a featured artist in the 2009, 2010, and soon 2011 Accordion Babes Pinup Calendar/CDs- each a wildly successful “fun, girl-powered makeover for the accordion.” These fast selling calendars have become collector’s items nationally and internationally, and feature pictures and music from all the featured Babes. Tara Linda performs from China to Virginia, from festivals to house concerts. She has just finished a tour of China and Mongolia as a guest performer with 2010 Grammy Winners Los Texmaniacs. Whether solo or backed by a full band; Tara Linda captivates. For current festivals, she tours with her Tortilla Western bands the “The Gila Men” or “Big in Texas” featuring stand-up bass, guitars, horns, violin, drums/percussion, and accordion. Tara Linda lives in Oakland, CA. She performs 2 styles of music: ~ Tortilla Western/Americana Rock, 1930’s Conjunto/Tex-Mex; and ~ Jazzy blues, Latin torch. Contact: Tara Linda in Oakland, California (510) 418-1883 / Linda@Tara Linda.com Photos/Booking: www.TaraLinda.com/booking
Discography Tara Linda: (2010) Tortilla Western Serenade Tara Linda & Luna Nueva: (2008) New Moon. Tara Linda: (2006) Fool’s Journey Polliwog: (2001) Musical Score to Hamlet’s Women The Succulents: (1999) The Witch, the Sailor, & the
Enchanted Monkey
“Cinematic, Charismatic, & tarantino-matic”
— Billy Stull, Legendary Audio, TX
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Polka Dance PartyA huge wooden dance floor is provided
for your dancing enjoyment.Featuring ever-popular
The Steve Balich Sr. Polka BandSaturday and Sunday from 1-5 pm
near the South entrance on West Sierra.Also appearing:
10:00-Noon Jim Gilman (see above)
Jim Gilman was seemingly fated to play the accordion. At the age of seven, a local Chicago accordion school called his parents and offered six weeks of free accordion lessons because they had heard their son “had talent.” After resisting a high-pressure accordion salesman, private lessons were arranged.
A move to California during Jim’s high school years seemed to halt his accor-dion career, but fate stepped in once more. Jim’s father actually saw in the Long Beach paper, “Wanted: Accordion player.” I ask you… how many times have you ever seen that? Jim earned his way through college playing at Knott’s Berry Farm as a street musician. During the summer, it meant playing eight hours a day, five days a week for the princely sum of $1.85 per hour.
A college loan bought Jim his first Cordovox and he was on his way. In 1972 he met up with (by chance?) a saxophone player by way of a 3x5 card posted on
a bulletin board and they went “on the road” playing at Holiday Inns all over the Midwest. After over 35 years, they’re still together along with a guitarist and a drum-mer that were added in 1975.
Jim’s not a one-man band; he’s a one man orchestra. “It’s truly amazing what electronics, computers and MIDI have done for the accordion. Acoustic purists may turn their noses up at all this stuff but the audiences love it,” says Jim.
You can contact Jim at 714-777-6667 or [email protected] ▲
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Motor Dude ZydecoThe Steve Balich Sr. Polka Band
Steve is one of the originators of the festival who, along with Clifton Buck-Kauffman and our own Jim Boggio, pioneered this event in 1991.
Steve was instru-mental in helping Clifton book some of the headliners we’ve enjoyed over the years after Jim passed away including artists such as Dick Contino, Chuck Berger, Tony Lovello and resounding hit accordionist, Alex Meixner.
Mr. Balich is also one of the founders of the popular “Accordion Club of the Red-woods,” an organization dedicated to giving scholarships to the young accordion stars of tomorrow.
The Steve Balich Sr. Polka Band has recorded three hit recordings. If you love Ital-ian music, you’ll love these: “Our Golden Years,” “Steve Balich Sr. Plays All Italian,” and “Steve Balich Sr. Plays All Italian, Vol. II,” with no duplications. ▲
20th year at the Festival
by Dave Williams
Steve Balich may be one of the few people in the world who honestly can say his love for playing the accordion dates back to the Herbert Hoover Administra-tion. His passion for the squeezebox took hold in 1929 when he was a 5-year-old child in San Francisco but he didn’t get the opportunity to pursue it until five years later.
You see, Balich’s parents believed his love for the accordion would be akin to a boy’s first crush and that his attention would be drawn elsewhere in due time. But when his parents would take him to
parties in dance halls, they saw a light in their son that would never go out.
“They never had to worry about where I was at a party in the hall because I was always just watching the accordion players,” Balich said. “I wouldn’t leave.”
Another temporary setback then was economics. His parents simply didn’t have the money for an accordion. When his parents finally realized it was true love, they relented and promised him an accordion for his 10th birthday. On his anticipated day, however, Balich was dis-
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appointed and again money was the issue. “My father was a longshoreman,
and they had a big general strike back in 1934,” Balich said. “He was off work for three or four months. I was sitting out there on the curb and, oh, I was so depressed. That’s when my mother said, ‘I don’t give a damn, we’re getting him an accordion.”
A couple days later, Balich and his parents were off to the Wurlitzer Co., where they purchased a white accordion that was almost bigger than the 10-year-old Balich, who has played a Petosa accordion for the last 20 years. A few free lessons were thrown in with the purchase and Balich took it from there. Frank
Yankovich (yes, he’s related to Weird Al Yankovich) was one of the marquee names in the accordion music world when Balich was cutting his teeth. “My dad told me that if I played good, I could be like him,” Balich said.
The resident of Occidental has done his parents proud, as he’s played with the likes of Dick Contino, Chuck Berger, Tony Lovello and Art Van Damme.
Balich has been a mainstay at the Cotati Accordion Festival since its incep-tion in 1991. He also was a fixture at Camp Meeker near Occidental for 22 years, playing from the Fourth of July through Labor Day weekend. Currently, one of his regular venues is Little Swit-zerland in Sonoma, where he plays once a month during months where there are four Sundays and twice a month in those where there are two Sundays.
Balich’s current schedule may not be as hectic as in his younger days, as he rarely ventures out of state, but the man definitely stays busy as he had 50 dates scheduled throughout the year and will fit in added events in if possible. As much as playing has meant to Balich, his top priority while raising his family was his furniture store which he ran with his wife of 63 years, Jennie.
“I never tried to make playing a bread-and-butter operation. I just love playing,” he said. “It doesn’t matter how tired I am, once I put that accordion on, it’s like somebody gave me a shot of adrenaline.”
Steve and Jennie, whose maiden name is Gemegnai, have three children (Steve Jr., John and Jeffrey) and three grandchildren.
Steve Jr. followed in his father’s footsteps, plays accordion and leads a band of his own.
The Polka Dance Party in the polka tent, where he fronts the Steve Balich Sr. Polka Band, remains one of the more popular attractions at the two-day festival. On the whole, Balich has been surprised by the growth and success of the CAF and it is a source of pride for him that he’s been there from the start.
“I never thought it would get this big, but it kind of worked its way into what it is,” Balich said. “It gives me a really good feeling because I promote this as much as I can, and I use this in my own field of music. I consider myself one of the busiest little groups up here in the area. I feature us as a versatile group. I do polka and other things. I don’t consider jazz or rock because that’s not my bag.”
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"I never tried to make playing a bread-and-butter operation. I just love playing. Once I put that accordion on, it's like somebody gave me a shot of adrenaline." — Steve Balich Sr.
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It took a few years, however, for the Polka Dance Party to find a permanent home at the CAF. In fact, the dance party initially took place at the old Cotati Caba-ret, which Balich feels was a bad spot for it because even though it was within walking distance of La Plaza Park, it seemed miles away and set apart from the rest of the activities of the accordion festival. Also, while activities in the park were free to attend, entrance into the dance party was $5. After being placed in subsequent year in various locales such as the bookstore in front of the old Inn of the Beginning or in a tiny lot between the Cotati fire station and the park, the dance party/polka tent with a huge wooden floor finally found its permanent place.
“We were in some pretty raunchy spots early on, but we played,” Balich said. “What’s great about the polka tent is that people have a place to go when they want something different than what’s on
the main stage. It’s great when you see so many people of all ages dancing and enjoying themselves.”
Those who enjoy themselves when Dick Contino, a true legend in the ac-cordion world, appears at the CAF have Balich to thank. One year, after one of the main draws decided not to participate, the festival management needed a big draw. In stepped Balich, an old friend of Contino who also happened to study under the same accordion teacher in San Francisco. Although they lost contact for a few years as Contino began playing huge venues in places such as Las Vegas.
“I asked Dick if he’d play and he said he’d love to. Then I asked what he charged, and he said he plays for anything from zero to $10,000,” Balich chuckled. “Thank goodness I wasn’t involved in those types of negotiations. Dick’s one of the best and I knew he’d be a good fit for the accordion festival.” ▲
Pat RyanBiographical Sketch of the Artist
Analog Artist in a Digital Age Pat Ryan was born in New Rochelle,
New York in 1941 and raised in Levittown on Long Island, eventually migrating to Los Angeles in 1962, where he attended Art Center School of Design. He worked for various advertising agencies on Sunset Boulevard as a young art director. But when the Vietnam War loomed large, Pat turned on, tuned in, and dropped out. In 1971 he packed up his belongings and young family, soul singer wife Cyretta, their four young children, two cats and a dog, and moved to the small town of Fairfax in Marin County,
California, just north of San Francisco. He first opened up a tiny studio in the stairwell of Litho-Color Graphics, a printing shop on Bolinas Road in Fairfax.
Eventually, he met and befriended many of the local poster and T-shirt artists, and together they rented a building on the corner of 2nd and B Streets in San Rafael. Collectively known as the “Peanut Gallery,” Pat shared the building with the greatest California rock poster artists; Alton Kelley, Stanley ‘Mouse’ Miller, Victor Moscoso, Larry Noggle, Linda Miller, Tim Harris, Enid Hansen, and Dave Sheridan. They mingled, collaborated and got turned on to
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each others’ medium and style. During this time, Pat Ryan painted most of the Concrete Foundation of Fine Art (C.F.F.A.) poster, which can be seen in an historical context in Paul Grushkin’s book, “The Art of Rock.”
The Fairfax Years and Artista Gang At C.O.D, Pat Ryan and Dave Sheridan began their several years of close friendship and collaboration.
High Times featured a small article on them during this period. “In 1980 Dave Sheridan and I started C.O.D. Grafix in Fairfax,” said Ryan. “This is where we did ARTISTA and California Homegrowers Association.
In the meantime, the ARTISTA gang grew and the annual parties became events not to be missed. Sadly, Dave Sheridan died in the early 80’s, a victim of cancer. Pat Ryan carried on in Sheridan’s absence, sur-rounded by family, friends and a colony of artists and their families that the ARTISTA had evolved into.
tacky Productions As his artistic prowess and reputation grew, Pat got into trying his hand at making humorous videos with fellow artists that were hang-ing around the Fairfax studio. This was the beginning of Tacky Productions. This was in the analog days, with no technology except a hand-held camcorder with no edit-ing capabilities. Pat was also working on long term projects, creating yearly calendars for Prairie Sun Recordings Studio and the art for the annual Cotati Accordion Festival poster, which he still does 20 years later. Pat continued working on this series through the 80’s and 90’s when, in ’92 he found himself drawn to leave Fairfax.
The humboldt Years “I left Marin County in 1992. A friend and I used to go to Reggae on the River every year and we’d end up with a whole entourage of people, all from Marin County.
Needless to say, being in one of the prime growing areas of the world, Pat spun his talents into creating new, vibrant and
hilarious herb labels. He also became the defacto poster artist in residence for Reggae on the River, Sierra Nevada World Mu-sic Festivals and the Mateel Community Center’s never ending array of cool world beat and reggae shows. Over the next seven years, Pat did over 50 music posters for the Mateel Community Center, and witnessed some incredible shows.
of course Pat designed and drew all 20 Cotati Accordion Festival Posters and numerous Prairie Sun Calendars.
This year in honor of the 20th annual CAF, Pat has designed a commem-morative poster. We have signed, num-bered prints available for purchase in the souvenir tent next to the main stage.
In 1999 Pat and Cyretta moved back to the Bay Area so they could be closer to their 5 grandchildren. They still wanted to be in a “country” environment, so they settled in the Sonoma Valley in the picturesque, woodsy town of Glen Ellen in the wine country. Here Pat worked out of his home producing posters and t-shirts for festivals and concerts and did several jobs for clients like Grateful Dead Merchandising, Phil Lesh & Friends, and the Doobie Brothers.
Pat Ryan Now Pat has created well over 100 posters for various musical venues and festivals throughout his career. He has exhibited his poster art at local wineries and galleries and is part of a group of exhibiting artists at T.R.P.S. (The Rock Poster Society) poster shows. In fact, his work can always be seen at the T.R.P.S. Annual Springtime Show at Fort Mason in San Francisco, and in the fall at the Hall of Flowers in Golden Gate Park. Pat now lives in Rohnert Park, in Sonoma County, and is working on another in his series of Indian paintings. He has several patrons who believe in his work, and have helped him with funding over the years to continue his dream. He may be reached at (707) 665-9390. He does have an email address [email protected]. He is still an analog artist, but has joined the digital age. If you have questions about upcoming events, conatct Pat for more information. ▲
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JD Limelight has been playing his five-row chromatic accordion in and around Sonomastan for about ten years. He is a founding member of local favorites The Lemon Lime Lights and has played in the French gypsy band Dginn.
JD is currently playing with brash upstarts Brothers Horse where he’s honing some jazz chops with The Way To Go Joes, marches with the Hub Bub Club and has sat in with many others along the way, including the Trailer Park Rangers, The Jug Dealers, and Mr. December. JD also plays regularly in the Bay Area Burlesque scene at the Hubba Hubba Revues and with the Boiler Bar, and has also learned a thing or two about fixin’ accordi-ons from Kimric Smythe of Smythe Accordions.
JD has recently released a solo album, Greetings From Sonomastan, described as eclectic folk, junkyard cabaret, music for monkeys and hobos alike, from Eastbania to Sonomastan. JD Limelight has an eccentric edge mixed with old world charm... ▲
JD Limelight
Who is Lemme Adams?Some say he spent many years as a
small child nursing in the rugged pouch of an Australian kangaroo. Others believe he has devoted his existence toward teaching ragas and secret paths of enlightenment to dozens of mesmerized gurus in the spicy heat of India. One fan suggests he could possibly be one of our country’s founding fathers. Indeed, he is a mysterious man.
Training for several years under the wing of Bart Benico, a Petaluma accordion master, Lemme has bent through time and
space in order to reach his own unique sound and universe. Equipped with an Iorio Accorgan, a machine of infinite power and rarity (part accordion, part organ), he spends most of his time conquering the streets, train-stops, and venues of San Francisco on a critical journey: to open the minds of his listeners. On a good day he might return home to his country land of Penngrove, were he enjoys a brief moment of silence before his mission must go on.
If you must know one thing about Lemme Adams, it should be that he is here to move you. Being a part of the Cotati Accordion Festival has been a dream of his since his conception, and he even had extra practice time in his mother’s womb. The moment has finally arrived for his first ever appearance alongside his believers and band mates. Keep your ears on and your minds open! ▲
Rare Cuts with Lemme Adams
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Motor Dude Zydeco
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La Familia Peña-Govea Bandleader, ar-ranger, trumpeter, accordionist, vocalist, and recording artist Miguel Govea offers the best in Latin mu-sic for any event. In the San Francisco Bay area for the last 25 years, he has led and accompanied various musical ensembles, including:Los Compas, La Familia Peña-Govea, Cascada de Flores, Futuro Picante, Los Peludos, Dr. Loco’s Rockin’ Jalapeño Band, Agustín Lira and Alma.
He plays for nightclubs, community events and private parties, dance com-panies, theater groups, television and radio broadcasts, and film soundtracks, such as: El Rio, S.F. Cigar Bar, S.F. The Ramp, S.F. Pier 23, S.F. Peña Pachamama, S.F. Cotati Accordion Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival National anthem, S.F. Giants game Pac Bell Park Grand Opening San Francisco Ethnic Dance, Festival M.H. DeYoung Museum of Art, S.F. The Palace of Legion Of Honor, S.F. S.F. Mexican Museum’s 30th Anniversary, San Di-ego’s Adam’s Ave. Roots Festival Ballet Folklorico Ensambles, S.F. KQED Ch. 9 – “Spark” program “Fight in the Fields” documentary soundtrack Hon. Nancy Pelosi, U.S. House of Rep.’s Hon. Judge Carlos Bea, 9th U.S. Circuit Court Hon. Mayor Jerry Brown, Oakland, CA.
Los Compas is a band of seasoned pros playing the hardest-hitting salsa in San Francisco. Although many musicians and singers have passed through its ranks, Los Compas is by no means a “pick up” band. Most members have 10-15 years of association with the group. For 5 years, the band’s now legendary run at the water-front’s Pier 23 made that bar “the place to be” on Friday nights.
Whether an intimate 4-piece setting or a nightclub sized 10-piece band, Los Compas consistently functions as a crisp, energetic, tight-knit unit. “One of the hardest working bands on the San Fran-cisco scene, Los Compas is led by Miguel Govea, one time member of the seminal Chicano New Song band, Los Peludos, who has shaped a sound that embraces the diverse musical cultures that make up the Bay Area Latino community. Cumbias, merengue, Tex-Mex, salsa, Latin jazz…“no se rajan” (they do not shrink) from any musical challenge…” (Latin Beat Magazine).
At one fateful performance, Miguel met a musician/lawyer named Susan Peña, who played “Jesusita en Chihuahua” on her fiddle and eventually became the mother of his daughters, Rene (age 21) and Cecilia (age 13). 20 years later, the four members of La Familia Peña-Govea are earning reputations as exciting performers of traditional Tex-Mex and Colombian music, garnering acclaim at festivals and events throughout Northern California. Their first c.d. recording, entitled “René at 15,” includes: rancheras, polkas, valses, vallenatos, boleros, and a danzó and “Cohetes.” Rene Peña-Govea Rene misses teaching her button accordion classes at Boaz Accordions in Berkeley (now closed). She is currently accepting students for private lessons and may be contacted at: [email protected] ▲
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The Creaking Planks
The Creaking Planks are a well-heeled crew of folk music misfits, scouring the wide world of music for songs we can bring close and make our own, regardless of source, genre or era. We haven’t much original material of our own, but the entire set is quite novel, where you may hear hilarious songs by never-heard-of-thems like Bob Uker and Al Mader the Minimalist Jug Band side by side with well-considered selections from the canonical songbooks of, for instance, Britney Spears, the Talking Heads, Nine Inch Nails and Sesame Street.
We strive to achieve a species of cognitive dissonance through re-interpreting new music in old styles and on old-timey instruments (eg. accordion, ukulele, washtub bass, steel guitar) while peppering the stew with some actual traditional music from the old country to keep you on your toes. Everything new is made old, and everything old is new again.
Members (Currently active)Blackbox Squeezebeard (accordion, vocals); Lee Shoal (banjo, ukulele, harmonium, kazoo, bass); Dr. Steel-hand (steel slide guitar, ukulele, per-cussion, legerdemain); Phaulonious J. Knucklebones (improvised percussion, ironing board); Johnny Wyoming (fiddle, banjo, vocals); Cap’n Jack Spareribs (baritone saxophone); Daisy Jones-Locher (santur, vocals, glocken-spiel); the Rev. Lucian Rumblebucket (washtub bass, percussion, theremin); Ludwicka lePearl (cello, flute).
In January 2005, two members of “The Creaking Planks”, made their first public performance at Raw and
Cooked. On this happy occasion they met the accordion player from “That’s My Brain And You’re Killing It!” and knew immediately that they had found what they needed to perform piratical sea shanties.
In the following year, the trio performed relentlessly. Today the Creaking Planks strap on forgotten and dismissed instruments of simpler times, preemptively gathering the tunes and jingles of today from the ashbins of tomorrow and re-presenting them in a novel anachronistic setting and style.
Drawing on numerous and dispa-rate naive, folk and outsider musical traditions, the common thread run-ning through the performers in this ensemble is that individually, none of them belong in a contemporary musi-cal context – while together, their sum suggests nothing stranger than the iPod of 1906.
Keep yr eyes open for more demented nautical circus orchestra-tion from this versatile crew o’ musical miscreants. ▲
La Familia Peña-Govea
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Art Van Damme died on February 15th 2010. He was 89 years old, and had been ill with pneumonia for several weeks. He had three children and six grandchildren. Although he had retired to Arizona and then to Sacra-mento California, he continued to perform nearly to the age of 90
Art Van Damme was born on April 9th 1920 in Norway, Michigan, and brought up in Chicago and took up the piano accordion in 1929 at the age of nine, and was classically trained before discovering jazz as a teenager - inspired by the recordings of Benny Good-man. In 1941 he joined Ben Bernie’s band as an accordionist, then from 1945 to 1960 he worked for NBC, performing on ‘The Dinah Shore Show’, ‘Tonight’, ‘The Dave Garroway Show’, and other radio and TV shows with Garroway.
He recorded 130 episodes of the 15-min-
ute ‘The Art Van Damme Show’ for NBC Radio, and from the 1940s onwards also enjoyed a successful and extended recording career.
Art Van Damme, in his prime years, played so many gigs in clubs, hotels and concert stages across the USA and Europe that it is said that he never needed to do any practice. He was constantly in action, developing and honing his skills and repertoire, pioneering the use of the accordion as a jazz lead instrument. So influen-tial was Art’s playing style that he has influenced most of the western world’s jazz accordionists. One musicologist made the following neat comment: “The hippest cat ever to swing an accordion, Art Van Damme dared go where no man had gone before: jazz accordion”. ▲
ARt VAN DAMMe 1920-2010
Died April 1, 2010 after a long illness. He was 84. A prominent resident of Cotati for 60 years, Draper was born in Martinez to Robert Draper and Vera Cartwright Draper, the youngest of their three sons. He attended Alhambra Union High School in Martinez and enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps immedi-ately after his graduation in 1946, serving until 1949. He attended photography school in Los Angeles and worked briefly as a commercial photographer.
He came to Cotati in 1949 to work for his uncle, Ed Runyon, who owned the town's weekly newspaper. He married Prudence King of Petaluma in 1951 and the couple bought the Weekly Cotatian from Runyon. They worked together as editor and publisher - and everything else - for 15 years. After selling the newspaper, Lloyd worked for a San Francisco printing firm and for Art Point Engraving in Sebastopol. In 1977, he and Prue quit their jobs and volun-teered for the Peace Corps, serving in Western Samoa. When the Drapers returned to Cotati in 1979 Lloyd worked for the Sonoma Index-Tribune and later for Kauth Bros. in Santa Rosa and Cotati Oaks Hardware. Their Peace Corps adventures gave Lloyd and Prue a taste for travel
and on their way home from Western Samoa they traveled for four months through the South Pacific islands, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia and Malaysia.
In the next two decades Lloyd photo-graphed giant lizards in the Galapagos, tigers in India and fished for piranhas in the Amazon. Their most recent adventure was a tent camp for whale watching in Baja, California. Lloyd also enjoyed dancing with the Petaluma Cotil-lion, and RV travel with the Happy Hookups. He specialized in restoration of historic photos of the Cotati area, and in 2004, co-authored with Prue, a book on the history of Cotati. He and Prue also established the Cotati Histori-cal Society and led in the establishment of the Cotati Museum, which held its grand opening Febuary 28, 2010.
Lloyd is survived by his wife, Prue. They were planning to celebrate their 59th anniver-sary on April 14. He is also survived by his son, Robert Draper of Jenner; his daughter, Robin Draper of Cotati; and his granddaughter, Erin Roman of Santa Rosa. He was preceded in death by his son, Jay Draper, and his brothers, Robert and Ellwood Draper. ▲
Long-time Cotati resident and historian
LLoYD BeRtoN DRAPeR 1926-2010
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Pat Ryan's 20th Anniversary
Commemorative Posters are available
for purchase. Purchase your
limited, signed copy at the souvenir
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He conceived the idea of amending the traditional Tex-Mex and Tejano style music by adding the saxophone to the Rock and Roll guitar with a country flair. He has been requested by the talents of the most famous such as the likes of Dwight Yoakam, Buck Owens, Ry Cooder, Linda Ronstadt, Emmy Lou Harris, Los Lobos, The Mavericks, John Hiatt, Bryan Ferry, The Clash, Ste-phen Hill and the Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana, The Chieftains, Jimmy Sturr. Wil-lie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Ray Benson, Asleep at The Wheel, Alan Jackson, Abrahim Fer-rer (Buena Vista Social Club), the famous Celso Piña, Rowwen Heze from Europe, & Jaguares from Mexico.
Flaco is described by People Magazineas “a heavy weight in Texas Chicano (or Tejano) music.”
He won his first Grammy Award in 1986 for the re-make of his father’s song, “Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio”. He then teamed up with his buddies Freddy Fender, Doug Sahm and with Augie Meyers to form the Tex-Mex super group The texas tornadoes, thereby winning another Grammy award for their debut release in 1990. In 1996, he won yet another
Grammy award for the “Best Mexican-American Performance”, for his Artists Records solo performance entitled Flaco Jimenez. In 1999, Flaco added two more Grammys to his collection. One came out of the category of “Best Tejano Perfor-mance” for his solo release, Said and Done. The second Grammy Award in 1999 came from the “Best Mexican-American Perfor-mance” category in which he re-teamed with Freddy Fender for the recording of the group and album, Los Super Seven (RCA). The Mexican-American all-star band also includes David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas of Los Lobos, Joe Ely, Freddy Fender, Rick Treviño and Ruben Ramos. Flaco simply describes the experience of performing with this group as a “family reunion”.
The five-time Grammy Award win-ner’s career spans over four decades, and his famous accordion is featured in more than 100 albums. Most recently, Flaco was presented a Double Platinum Album Award by Virgin Records for his participa-tion on the Rolling Stones’ Voodoo Loungealbum which sold in excess of two million copies, just like the ever famous Streets of Bakersfield with his good friends, Buck Owens and Dwight Yoakam, also receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from Billboard Latin Magazine. ▲
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These final two pages of the program are devoted to thanking all those who make the annual produc-
tion of our internationally-known festival possible. However, the largest thank you goes to you, our patrons, celebrating the accordion in all its imaginative uses, and directly financially aiding, through your ticket purchases, the local youth groups that are so vital to our community.
The Cotati Accordion Festival is a nonprofit organization that started out as both a way to bring local attention to the value of the music of the accordion and to support the performing-arts programs in our local schools. These organizations were able to purchase band instruments and continue programs which were cut due to lack of state funding. Unfortunately, we are going through a time of cutbacks again in city and county services.
The Cotati Accordion Festival plans to continue doing its part by donating all its proceeds to the local youth groups we support. We believe that to discontine
these valuable programs, that the Cotati Accordion Festival has supported over the years, would be detrimental to the educa-tion of future generations. To date the festival has donated over $300,000 to local youth programs. We plan to go into the future providing a stage on which our great accordion play-ers may perform, inserting that eternal joy of music into our lives for another week-end, and to do all that we can to provide for our youth in the years to come.
These sponsors contributed their time, merchandise and services to the Cotati Accordion Festival, and we are greatly appreciative of all of them.
If you or your organization would like to become involved and would like information on sponsorship, please call the CAF at 707-664-0444. We’d love to help you help us. ▲
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Many ThanSks!
Many Thanks
THANK YOU! We couldn’t do it without these generous contributions of time, talent, merchandise and support.
Board membersScott Goree Linda ConnerAndrea Rock Richard CullinenGirard Guidice
contributorsRay Volker of Volker FinancialGilbert Reyes & Hohner AccordionMackenzie VineyardsHeck Estate WinesTrinchero Family WineryEpic WinesCa’ Momi winesHalby WinesMonterey Bay Wine Co.E & J GalloDry Creek VineyardsRodney Strong VineyardsRavenswoodMurphy Goode Winery Classic WinesRegency Wine Group. Cotati City Council and City Staff Alan SchumannJerry Weiss Joel IsquithRichard CullinenClifton Buck-KaufmannRebecca BrowneEric KirchmannCarol EnnekingPaul and Jen WarnerRuth EdwardsFrank Hayhurst and Zone MusicBlair HardmanStuart Buck Lawrence and Paula ReC.R.P.U.S.D & Dr. Barbara
VrankovichKen SpencerWilton & Donna HerzRick GoodmanTom of KG TechnologiesJim WilderJeanine FlatonCambell FamilyKRSHFroggyKSROKXTSKRCBKZSTKBBFKPFARichard Williams and Oliver’s Market Wine & Spirits DepartmentSkyler FellDave WilliamsYonny SaundersLeslie & Bob HallJeannette Douglass Pat RyanKelly SmithDr. Ken Shaw, DDSUrsula Kros
Special ThanksMike WorkentinRonnie MartinKeith BlackstoneRon LindenbuschJim Jacobs Tony MageeShelly, Renee, and Rachel GoreeSteve & Jennie Balich
AppreciatedBuck O'HareAmber Lee BakerMaggie Martin
Renee de la PradaJim O’GradyCarl SchollmannJim BarrettLouise Petersen of The Apple CrateMarian KelleyDos AmigosThe Pulley FamilyBen PerryTim Sewell WSCUHSDRancho Bodega Fire DistrictNorth Bay CorporationThe Independent Journal The Press DemocratLa VozThe BohemianNorthbay TimesThe Community VoiceMooka RenickJessica Levy-Goebel Marjorie KonradShelly of Pro Team EventsBarlow PrintingAmy ContardiGus Garelick of KRCBJulie Caine & KALW
organizations Supporting the FestivalCotati City Council Education Foundation of Cotati/Rohnert ParkCotati/Rohnert Park Nursery Co-opThomas Page Elementary SchoolBoy Scout Troop #4Penngrove Elementary School PTAThe Children’s MuseumAnd anyone we failed to mention
THANK YOU !
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