NEWSLETTER OF THE

August 2014 SVAS NEXT MEETING:

September 7 , 2014 at Harry’s Hofbrau

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Frank Lima - ”The Great Morgani”

From the streets of Santa Cruz to our very own stage comes the masked man of the ac-cordion world. Perched upon his mini stage he will play our favorite tunes du Jour.

Jana Maas President of the Good Time Accordion Club of Escalon, CA will entertain us in her very special way. She Plays, she sings and has joyous songs about the Hippopotamus and other wonderful things.

Bring your accordion for the OPEN PLAY session at 1:00pm

We are counting on YOU to entertain us the first period.

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Sue Douglas, SVAS Reporter

Bill Tapogna Master of Ceremonies

Ken Caple, President

Did you miss a meeting performance? You can view some of it on youtube. To View Pam’s Videos from past meetings: Go to youtube.com, type in accordionpam in the search field

(next to the magnifying glass on top) for videos from the club .

HAPPY DAYS BAND: Ken Caple, Hubert Kallabis, Marcia Coullahan, Gloria Tapogna, Bud Bye, William DeMichelis

What an enthusiastic group we had this month. I had a great time playing for everyone on Sunday. I think I can say this for the rest of our Happy Days Band as well. It makes us all happy when the audience responds with a great applause. Of course our featured performers Harriet and Peter were outstanding to say the least. Louis Rodriquez was also a special treat for us. We had more standing applause this month than I can remember in recent years. I am glad to see we have two new members join us. We all need to recruit more folks to keep the club vibrant and well. With regret I must announce that Ivan Klitgaard has resigned his position on the Board of Directors of SVAS. Ivan and his wife Ceil have both had more than their share of health problems. Ivan is spending as much time with his wife as possible during their last days together. We all are very sad to see this take place And it is a reminder to all of us that we are marching down the same path in this life. Thank you ,Ivan, for all of your hard work over the years for this Club. A special thanks to Bernie Coullahan for taking our meeting photographs, and Al Cullen for taking Dicks’ place at the raffle ticket table. -Ken

We knew that Happy Days Are Here Again when we heard Ken Caple’s Happy Days Band play that song! And with Beautiful Ohio, the band got our new visitors, Charlie and Erica to dance, and Ray and Mindy danced too.

This Band motivates us! When they played I Can’t Stop Loving You, Ed and Mindy danced to it. They played polkas, waltzes, Rhumbas and Two-steps that got Vic and Barbara Corsiglia to dance also. Their finale was Yes Sir That’s My Baby, and I tell you what, yes sir, they’re a dance band!

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ACCORDION TEACHERS:

Peter Di Bono: San Francisco (415) 753-1502 Lynn Ewing: San Carlos (650) 453-3391 Sharon Walters Greyhosky: Daly City (650) 731-6010 Lou Jacklich: San Lorenzo (510) 317-9510 Marian Kelly: Portola Valley (650) 854-1896 Richard Yaus: San Bruno (650) 832-1740 Mike Zampiceni: Sunnyvale (408) 734-1565 Norma Zonay-Parsons: San Jose (408) 244-2762 Aaron Wayne: Santa Cruz (831) 332-0589 Sheri Mignano , Petaluma (707) 765-1657

Cotati Accordion Festival August 17 & 18, 2014

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WELCOME New Members: Gloria McCarroll , Roldan F. Vigil

President, Ken Caple, mentioned that from now on the SVAS is encouraging indi-vidual members to bring their accordions to play during the pre-program time each month. And master of ceremonies, Bill Tapogna, told us there was a sign-up sheet on the entrance table for all individuals who want to play during the pre-program to sign. That way the Society could determine how many would be play-ing each month and let the players know how many minutes each one would be able to play. And Ken and Bill encouraged us, saying that even if we feel a bit shy about playing in front of an audience, we don’t have to worry because the early meeting atmosphere is very informal and in some cases, “other oriented,”,so just play and enjoy. We want to welcome four first-timers, Dutch and Melanie and Charlie and Erica. We hope they enjoyed the entertainment. Bill mentioned that Ivan Klitgaard is still taking care of his wife regarding her illness. Our thoughts and prayers are with them both. Bill then announced that Cotati Accor-dion Festival tickets are still available at the entrance table. Then he introduced us to the Santa Clara Valley Organ Club members that were at our August meet-ing and reminded us that the Organ Club meets at the Hofbrau on the third Sunday of each month

Another real audience motivator is Garland Cheatham. His daughter, Kristina Hansen, photo’d and recorded his performance on her I-pad as he played songs we love to sing, like Four Leaf Clover, Baby Face, Give My Re-gards to Broadway and Peg O’ My Heart. Garland also played Under the Double Eagle and Lady of Spain. It was also a pleasure to have Kristina come and “take the pix.”

Raffle-time, William DeMichelis won half the pot and the CD, “Swiss Days.” Sue Douglas won the Hofbrau meal ticket and the bottle of wine.

Louis Rodriguez played Chiquilin de Bachin, composed by Astor Piazolla. When he played Romanza Andaluza, composed by Pablo de Sarasate, Louis played several individual bass notes, almost like playing the melody on the bass! With Gypsy Airs, com-posed by Curt Mahr, Louis’ piano-side fingers were FLYING! Same thing when he played Beka Roka, composed by Grock. He wasn’t even looking at the keyboard and yet his fingers hit every correct note rap-idly! His finale was Little Sunshine

Garland Bob Norma Sue William Bob

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Santa Rosalia Fishermen’s Festival

September, weekend after Labor Day, the St. Rosalia is the patron saint of Palermo and Sicillian Americans liv-ing in Monterey, CA observe a two day festival in her honor in hope she will protect the fishermen at sea. The festival includes fireworks, parades, water events, con-tests and colorful fishing net decorations in downtown

24th annual

Cotati Accordion Festival Aug. 16 & 17 2014 See artists now confirmed for 2014

Our featured performer, Peter DiBono, and talented violinist, Harriet Newhart, are totally coordinated! It’s almost like they’re one person! Peter displayed phenomenal glissando and he stood up the whole time while playing his full size accordion. After playing a medley, including Dancing In the Dark, Pe-ter jokingly said, “For a twenty dollar bill we’ll play whatever you request.” We all chuckled. But gener-ously enough, Peter and Harriet played many re-quests, including Blue Tango, Amapola, La Cumpar-sita, You Belong to My Heart, Hernando’s Hideaway and O’ Solo Mio. Even though comedian, Bill Ta-pogna got up and waved a twenty dollar bill in front of Peter, and, again, we laughed, Peter said, “No, no, just kidding.” More fun! Then people requested more songs that we sang including That’s Amore, Danny Boy, I Could Have Danced All Night, Never On Sunday, Amazing Grace and I Can’t Give You

Anything But Love. They even played a medley of It’s Been a Long Long Time, Singing In the Rain, Lara’s Theme and Mexicali Rose. We sang Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Melody of Love and Always. Their last piece was Begin the Beguine. It impressed me that Harriet could play the violin so softly at times, especially toward the end of a melody. And, as was brought out about Peter in the July newsletter introduction, “You name it, I do it!.” We named it and Peter and Harriet did it.

Sunday 7 Band playing in the 1st Friday monthly festival in downtown los Altos. The Los Altos Chamber of Com-merce sponsors this event for the duration of the summer season. Sunday seven has particated from the beginning of the season.

COMING EVENTS

WHEN THE ACCORDION CLUBS IN THE BAY AREA MEET?

Accordion Club of the Redwoods (ACR) meets on the third Monday of the month. Herman & Sons Hall, 860 Western Avenue, Petaluma CA 94952. Contact: (707) 795-4060. Golden State Accordion Club (GSAC) has three divisions: 1. The Vacaville Club meets the second Thursday of the month at 6:30 PM, Pietro’s N.2, 679 Merchant St, Vacaville, CA 95687, Starting July 12, 2012 , Except for June and December. 2. The Humboldt Club meets on the third Tuesday, 7:00 PM., Humboldt Swiss Club, 5403 Tompkins Hill Road, Loleta, CA 95551. 3. The Sacramento Club meets on the fourth Wednesday of the month at 6:30 pm at the Old Spaghetti Factory,12401 Folsom Rd..,Rancho Cordova CA ,95742. Contact for all the GSAC: Carole Enneking (707) 864-2359. Good Time Accordion Club (GTAC) meets on the second Wednesday of the month at 7:00 PM, Escalon Community Center, 1055 Escalon Ave., Escalon, CA 95320. Contact Ed Sciarini (209) 545-3603. Northern California Accordion Society (NCAS) meets on the first Wednesday of the month 6:30 PM 6365 Douglas Blvd., Lutheran Church Social Hall, Granite Bay, CA 95746. Contact: San Francisco Accordion Club (SFAC) meets on the third Sunday of the month 2:00 PM . Oyster Point Yacht Club, 911 Marina Blvd. South San Francisco, CA 94080. Contact Lynn Ewing 650-453-3391. Silicon Valley Accordion Society (SVAS) meets on the first Sunday of the month, 1:00 PM at Harry’s Hofbrau, 390 Saratoga Avenue, San Jose, CA 95129. (between Kiely Blvd. and Stevens Creek Blvd. Contact: Bill Topogna (408) 984-5290.

♫ Who’s Playing??? ♫ William DeMichelis—Music with an accent, 408-375-0001, accordionist.sanjose@comcast.net

Reno di Bono plays the second Friday of each month at Montavalle in Scotts Valley, dancing to the Blue Moon Trio. Joe Domitrowich/AlpinersUSA: see www.alpinersusa.com or www.capricious-accordion.com or call 408-255-1259 Mike Zampiceni - Accordionist 408 734-1565 AbsolutAccord: Schedule Concerts with Norma Parsons (408) 246-3073, www.absolutaccord.com Sunday 7 : Schedule Concerts with Bob Stanfield (650) 888-3701 Happy Days Band: Schedule Concerts with Ken Caple (408) 892-2760 Due Zighi Baci– Schedule Performances with Sheri Mignano @ sfmignano@yahoo.com

SVAS BOARD of Directors / Officers

PRESIDENT: KEN CAPLE, 408 892-2760

VICE PRESIDENT: BILL TAPOGNA , 408 984-5290

SECRETARY: ART MAGGIO , 408 269-4122

TREASURER: BOB STANFIELD , 650 888-3701

DIRECTORS: DICK SIUDZINSKI, 408 736-5153 SCOTT BADER PAM KAWASHIMA pkawashima@outlook.com

WEBMASTER: PAM KAWASHIMA

NEWSLETTER EDITOR: KEN CAPLE, 408 892-2760

SVAS REPORTERS: Sue Douglas , Marcia Coullahan Marybarbara Zorio, Georgia Sutherland

Coming Events at SVAS: September 7, Meeting

Doors open at 1:00 pm

1:15-2:00 pm Preprogram: Open Play

2:00-2:15pm Presidents Message & Master of Ceremonies Introductions

2:15-3:00pm First Half Program : H Schmalzreid, M.Sanossian, E. Beran 3:00-3:15pm Break & Drawing

3:15-4:15pm Featured Player: Frank Lima & Jana Maas

October—Richard Noel November—Mike Marotta Band December- SVAS Christmas Program

Remember to bring your accordions for the OPEN PLAY

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24th annual Cotati Accordion Festival Aug. 16 & 17 2014 See artists now confirmed for 2014 CLICK HERE: SCHEDULE POSTED ON LINE Russians, Brazilians, Chinese, USA Some new faces and a lot of favorites

A DAY AT THE RANCH: SVAS member SUE CRISTALLO, who is a long-time accordion player and afficionado is the owner and operator of "Rancho Cristallo" a working horse ranch, located in the rolling hills of Los Gatos, overlooking Lexington Reservoir (what's left of it!). Among the many unique features of this ranch are the two fabulous Tree Houses built in massive oak trees adjacent to the main house. The first of these was built several years ago, and has been featured in the San Jose Mercury News. The second is a recent addition connected to the original by a ramp, and the tree house is only accessible via an ornamental spiral staircase.

Sue and her foreman MYRON RIESER invited the Silicon Valley Leathercrafters Guild to the ranch to hold the Guild's annual Bar-B-Que on July 26, 2014.

Bill Tapogna and fellow SVAS members Art and Margy Brown, and John Mendez, all of whom are members of the Leather Guild, were among the attendees. In addition to the BBQ, the Guild members held a "Show 'n Tell" of a wide variety of hand-made leather items, including saddles, holsters, purses, belts, hats, knife sheaths and many other beautiful items.

Sue commented that.it was her long-time desire to hear live music being played from the tree houses, but this had never happened! Well, Bill Tapogna just happened to have brought along his trusty Dallape accordion, and with it climbed up the spiral stair-case to the highest point in the new tree house (see photo), and...viola! Live music! And Sue, with her Columbo accordion, joined Bill at the original tree house and a fun jam resulted! This was followed by more music fea-turing Bill and his wife Gloria, playing her beautiful soprano Recorder. A great day, in a beautiful location, thanks to two wonderful folks! -Bill Tapogna

Attention All SVAS Accordionists

We want to publish your Photo and Biography Please send it in to our newsletter producer

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Silicon Valley Accordion Society meetings held first Sunday of each month at Harry's Hofbrau, 390 Saratoga Avenue, San Jose, corner of Kiely. Doors open at 1:00, Music

begins at 1:15, Meeting begins at 2:00 p.m. door fee $5, under 16 no charge.

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