When the Road Bends - tales of a Gypsy Caravan
GDub found this documentary at NetFlix. Fabulous musicians, up close and personal filmmaking.
Esma Redzepove, Maharaja, Fanfare Ciocalia, Taraf de Haidouks and the Antonia el Pipa Flamenco Ensemble.
I love hats.
We are playing live on KPIG tomorrow afternoon. As I was writing our Mad Alert newsletter for the gig I got to pondering porcine metaphors which led my hungry mind to pork pie hats.
A pork pie is a meat dish baked in pastry crust. The hat gets its name from its flat-topped resemblance to that savoury comestible. I won’t recommend eating pork but I will recommend wearing this quintessentially hip topper.
Many a Mad Maggie are crazy enough to sport one.
Buster Keaton, Lester Young and Tom Waits are are other crazy cool cats in pork pie hats.
Tune in at 1pm KPIG 1510 AM 
Call me sentimental. The year I started to play the accordion was the same year the Cotati Accordion Festival began. That would be 1991. That same year GDub and I fell in love. 17 years later I’m still squeezin’, GDub and I are still squeezin’ and the Cotati Accordion Fest is still rockin’.
Sat August 23 and Sun August 24
Downtown Cotati all day gates open 9:30
I’ll be participating in another multimedia extravaganza on August 23 and 24 at 1512 62nd Street in Emmeryville, featuring text, film, theremin and of course tuba. It’s 7:00 Saturday and 3 pm Sunday. It’s a benefit for the La Casaita Preschool, so the admission is a rather steep $35 for the premiere and $20 for the matinee, but would hope anyone reading this knows the magic words, “Hey, I’m with the band!”
