Robert Kennedy and the No-Mads!
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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.
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