NEWSLETTER OF THE

September 2016

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SVAS Next Meeting : Sunday October 2, 2016 at Harry’s Hofbrau

Gail Campanella As a youngster growing up in a large Italian family, on a farm in northeastern Colorado, Gail showed an interest in the only musical instrument in her home, her mother's old accordion. Her formal music lessons began at the age of 10 in Ft. Morgan, Colorado, where she enjoyed lessons and participated in an-nual accordion contests, Kiwanis Stars of Tomorrow, talent shows, and many other local events.

Gail became the town accordion teacher at age 14, when the local accordion teacher retired. During high school, she made monthly 80-mile train trips to Denver to study accordion with Anthony Pennetti and to play in his accordion orchestra.

She majored in piano at Loretto Heights College in Denver while continuing her accordion studies with Robert Davine at the University of Denver.

After graduation, she played “honky tonk” piano in Central City, Colorado, and taught 4th, 5th, and 6th grade music in the Denver Public Schools. She continued to study the Orff and Kodaly meth-ods of music education and received certification in Orff-Schulwerk.

Gail performed at the 2013 Cotati Accordion Festival in Cotati, CA. She has been guest artist for the San Francisco Ac-cordion Club and was a solo performer at the 2015 Orange County Accordion Festival, Costa Mesa, CA, known as the Big Squeeze. She was invited to be a member of the 2015 National Accordion Orchestra in South Bend, IN, under the direction of Gene Van. She was guest accordionist with the Santa Barbara City College Jazz Band in Spring, 2016, as well as guest soloist for the Chicago Accordion Club (July 2016) and Washington Metropolitan Accordion Society in (Sept. 2016).

Gail is a member of the Los Angeles Accordionaires Orchestra directed by Janet Hane. She teaches private accordion lessons and performs on both piano and accordion.

Gail and her husband, John, live in Santa Barbara, CA. They have three adult children: Gian Carlo, Dino and Veronica.

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Ken Caple President

Bill Tapogna Master of Ceremonies

Sue Douglas Reporter

SVAS had a great September program and turnout. We had a packed program. A lot of people got to play with the Band and the Individual Players. We appreciate everyone’s support of the club. We are always looking for musicians to come forth to play for us. Please volunteer by calling Pam Kawashima and getting on the schedule. Your Board of Directors is working hard to keep top drawer entertainers coming in to play for you. I hope you agree that we have been doing a good job here. We are now scheduling for 2017. If you know of any new groups or individuals you would like to see at the meeting please let your Board know. The next festival we are all working toward is the downtown Campbell Oktoberfest again. We will be there wearing our accordions and looking for people to polka for us. If you don’t polka then a chicken dance or two will do. This is a festival we all enjoy playing in. Coming in March of 2017 is the National Accordion Convention in Richardson Texas. I am looking forward to visiting it. If anyone is interested let me know and I will keep you appraised of their schedules and get you an application. The October meeting will be short of help. If anyone would like to help out, call a Board member to volunteer. We need help setting up chairs, manning the front desk, etc. - Ken C

To begin our very enjoyable performance time, William DeMichelis played great music, just out of his memory, and he never hesitated after each melody. He just “flipped” to the next melody, so his playing was al-most like a medley. And Roland played his alto saxophone and added even more rhythm and tone to the pieces.

Next, Eric Scheel played the Just Because Polka, Let Me Call You Sweet-heart, La Mattinata, It Had To Be You, April In Portugal and Blue Moon. Eric’s neighbor played the flute and did a wonderful job.

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Welcome New Member: Jere Jones

The Happy Days Band

playing “Reefside Tunes”

L-R Ken Caple, Hubert Kallabis, Bill Tapogna

Marcia Coullahan, Gloria Tapogina MaryBarbara Zorio and William De Michellis

Ken Caple’s Happy Days Band includes Hubert Kallabis, Bill Tapogna, Marcia Coullahan, Gloria Tapogna, Marybarbara Zorio, William DeMichelis and the leader, Ken. And sure enough, Happy Days Are Here Again! Aloha, Blue Moon and Far Away Places. With the next two pieces, Ken played his vibraphone. That instru-ment adds a lovely “trill” sound to the melodies. They played Moonlight Bay, By the light of the Silvery Moon and Tiny Bubbles. Some of us sang to those.

Next, Don Pandori and Pam Kawashima played Anniversary Waltz, Return to Sor-rento and Oh Marie. It was a pleasure to hear them coordinate so well. Then, Paul Cain stood up and played very happy music at first. And as he was playing, cute little girl, Pele, came and gave him a hug! The rest of Paul’s music sounded very classical and brought back memories.

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Our professional player this month , Reno DiBono, is also actually an accordion teacher, and he introduced us to two of his stutdents. One student, Art Lang, got up and played a few pieces for us. It would be good to hear him again sometime. The next student, George Lai, played with a very smooth sound. We were thrilled to have Reno bring them to us and have them play for us.

Our Master of Ceremonies, Bill Tapogna, announced that it was Betty Lou’s birthday, so the audience sang Happy Birthday to her. Then he mentioned that it was “9-11”, so the audience spoke the Pledge of Allegiance to the Ameri-can flag that was placed at the front of the room. Next, President, Ken Caple played his Concerto accordion and it can make a drum sound, a horn sound, and almost sound like a full band! Wow!

The last announcement was that it was Grandparents Day.

During Raffle time, Sherley and Anita donated tapes to the raffle. Thank you two! Dan won a CD and pens. Norma, William, and Pam each won the wine. Kathleen won the statues. Roland won the wine and Ken the Choco-lates.

Bob , Norma, and Pele (Paul Cains Daughter) orchestrated the Raffle.

A good time was had by all.

ACCORDION CLUB MEETING SCHEDULES IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

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. 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. 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 Happy Days Band— Schedule Concerts with Ken Caple (408) 892-2760 Due Zighi Baci– Schedule Performances with Sheri Mignano at sfmignano@yahoo.com Ernie Beran— Plays at the Tyrolean Inn Restaurant in Ben Lomond, CA every Saturday 6:00-9:00 pm Sunday 7 Band—Plays every first Friday of the month in Los Altos in front of Le Boulanger bakery on the corner of main street and Second street in the down town area. Schedule Concerts with Bob Stanfield (650) 888-3701 Mike Zampiceni—Plays at Tee Nee Thai Restaurant on Friday nights 6:30-8:30 and some Saturdays.

SVAS BOARD of Directors / Officers

PRESIDENT: KEN CAPLE, 408 892-2760

VICE PRESIDENT: BILL TAPOGNA , 408 984-5290

SECRETARY: SCOTT WILLIAMSON

TREASURER: BOB STANFIELD , 650 888-3701

DIRECTORS: DICK SIUDZINSKI SCOTT BADER PAM KAWASHIMA SUE DOUGLAS ART MAGGIO DENNIS JUDD Norma Parsons (Honorary)

WEBMASTER: PAM KAWASHIMA pkawashima@outlook.com

NEWSLETTER Producer: Ken Caple Editors At Large: Bob S, Pam K, Norma P, Bill T, Georgia S, and monthly Reporter

NL Reporters: SUE DOUGLAS , MARCIA COULLAHAN , MARYBARBARA ZORIO, GEORGIA SUTHERLAND

Coming Events at SVAS: Sunday October 2, 2016

Meeting : Doors open at 1:00 pm 1:00-2:00pm Open Play 2:00—3:00 pm Sandie Stut,Dennis Judd

3:00—3:30 pm Break & Drawing Master of Ceremonies Remarks 3:30—4:30 Feature Gail Campanella

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - October 2: Richard & Larry Denier & Dave Dally November 6: Ron Borelli Quintet December 4: Roberto Rosa

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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: Cupertino (650) 954-3711 Mike Zampiceni: Sunnyvale and Hayward (408) 569-2579 Sheri Mignano , Petaluma (707) 765-1657 Ernie Beran: Aptos, reeds@baymoon.com (831) 238-4961

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The Reno DiBono Trio

Our featured players, Reno DiBono on the accordion, Dave Kawamoto with the saxophone and clarinet and Olaf Sciapaccasse with the drums took us to Italy with Reginala Campagnola. I love rhythm, so I really enjoyed the emphasis that Olaf added to the music with the drum. When they played Dark Town Strutter’s Ball, Volare, Angelina and Rock Around the Clock, Reno sang them all, and that got us to sing them. For a couple of melodies, Roland played his alto saxo-phone in coordination with Dave playing his horn. They played Tea for Two, Once In a While, Honeysuckle Rose, Begin the Beguine, Just a Closer Walk With Thee and their finale was Don’t Get Around Much Anymore. What a pleasure!

Popular Song History The Clarinet Polka “The Clarinet Polka” or “A Hupfata” Grandpa Polka in Poland, Estonia and other Eastern European Countries. This music was composed in Austria by composer A. Hupfat. Other sources claim that “The Clarinet Polka” was written under the name “Dziadunio Polka” by Polish composer Karol Namyslowski. The piece performed as a polka, has a simple and catchy melody, featuring a prominent extended eight-note arpeggio. It is typically performed in B-flat major. Ref: Wiki KC

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

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