May 18th, 2025: Cory Pesaturo - at the Chetcuti Community Center!
Cory Pesaturo (aka C Pez) is a World Digital Accordion (Coupe Mondiale) and World Acoustic Accordion (Primus Ikaalinen) Champion!
Cory graduated from the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music where he was the first musician ever to major and graduate in the accordion. Additionally, Cory is the only person to ever win World Championships on Acoustic Accordion, Digital Accordion, and Jazz.
Pesaturo's extensive resumé includes appearances at the White House for President and Mrs. Clinton on 4 different occasions, starting when he was only 12 years old. Cory has performed in 5 different continents, in countries such as Italy, Canada, New Zealand, Japan and Tunisia.
Cory is known as both a visionary and a rebel within the main United States accordion world, but his main contribution is his forward thinking of how the accordion should be used, played, and presented in the modern music world.
Please visit Cory's website to learn much more about this talented and fascinating force in the modern world of the accordion!
June 22nd: Robert Kennedy and the No-Mads!
Robert Kennedy is a San-Francisco-based jazz organist, accordionist, pianist and composer, born and raised in the American South and a resident in the Bay Area since 1988.
He has released two albums as a leader of organ-centered jazz combos, and appears as a sideman on commercial recordings of straight-ahead and acoustic / hot-club jazz, rock, fusion and pop.
He played accordion in the pit orchestra for Broadway Sacramento's 2024 production of Fiddler on the Roof, and through memberships in The Vivants, Bistro Moustache, Mission Hot Club and numerous freelance projects he has become one of the Bay Area’s busiest jazz accordionists.
The No-Mads are guitarist Ned Boynton, accordionist (today) Robert Kennedy, and often their musical guests. In 2015, Robert got the call to play organ on one of Ned’s gigs, and the two quickly discovered a shared taste for TV themes, rock anthems, hot-club tunes, Italian folk music, popular music of Europe and the Americas, novelty songs and jazz standards.
For several years Ned and Robert freelanced on guitar and jazz organ in each other’s groups, also crossing paths as hired guns in other bands. An accordion / guitar partnership was natural for Ned thanks to his long history with accordionists in Los Pinkys, Surfer Roma and The Caffè Trieste Family Band, so the composite sound of accordion and guitar naturally became the foundation of The No-Mads.
July 27, 2025: Club Picnic!
Mark your calender and join fellow club members for good food, good conversation and good music at the Rinconada Park Sequoia Grove Picnic Area, 1120 Hopkins Ave, Palo Alto on Sunday, July 27th from 11:30 am to 2:00 pm.
Watch the SFAC Newsletter for more information!
See you at The Cotati Accordion Festival, August 16-17, 2025
Check the Cotati Accordion Festival Facebook Page for up-to-the-minute details!