Los californios^® website portal

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Takes you to the Los californios^® band site. Learn more about our mission to recreate and preserve this secular music and dance which is part of the heritage and history of California. Also find information on purchasing recordings of the music and sheet music for performing it.

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Home | Historic Resources | Charles Lummis’ Recordings | Casa de Adobe Fiestas

Explore information and resources about the Spanish-Language Social Music of 19th-Century Southern California, and about the people who performed it and preserved it in the first half of the twentieth century. Learn about Charles Fletcher Lummis and his far-sighted recording project, and about the people who sang for Lummis’ project. And view programs and photographs of those performances.

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Discover the legacy of Padua Hills Theatre and The Mexican Players. From 1930 to 1974 this groundbreaking theatrical group challenged the negative stereotypes of Mexican and californio people and culture, and collected and preserved California aspects of this Mexican culture for future generations. Many of these Players and their families are still available to tell their stories, and we include some of those reminiscences on this site. If you have memories of Padua Hills Theatre and The Mexican Players, please contact us so that we may include them.

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San Diego Friends of Old-Time Music | Mariachi Sherman

That’s where you are now! This site portal is the door into the the various site components. You may also find here all our favorite links to assist you in finding more related sites, as well as a picture of Los californios^® in pirate garb. Argh! (See below.)

Californio Links

Yesteryears Dancers
yesteryearsdancers.com

Elisabeth Waldo
elisabethwaldomusic.com

Elizabeth Erro Hvolboll and Luis Moreno
sevensouth.com/recordshop/MorenoLu/bio.php

New World Baroque Orchestra
newworldbaroque.org

El coro hispano de San Francisco
corohispano.org

The José Arias Troubadours
ariastroubadours.com

The Calicanto Singers
calicantoassociates.com

Vaquero Days, Descanso, California
vaquerodays.com/myp.htm

The Lively Arts History Association
lahacal.org

The Alta California Orchestra (TACO)
institutefortraditionalstudies.org/californios.html

Los Califas
myspace.com/loscalifas

Los californios® at the Pena Adobe in Vacaville, CA: Janet Martini, David Swarens, Vykki Mende Gray.

Photo by Jerry Bowen

From left: Janet Martini, David Swarens, Vykki Mende Gray
The Peña Adobe in Vacaville, CA.

Los californios® at Old Town, San Diego, CA: David Swarens, Janet Martini, Vykki Mende Gray.

Photo by Bill Thorpe

From left: David Swarens, Janet Martini,
Vykki Mende Gray
At Old Town, San Diego, California.

Los Californianos — Statewide descendants organization
loscalifornianos.org

Descendants of Old Town
ot-boot.com/DESCENDENTS/index.htm

The Barrel Organ at Mission San Juan Bautista
standingstones.com/sanjuan.html

The Roots Music Listening Room:
Texas-Mexican Border Music & The Music of Vera Cruz:
1920s - 1950s
juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenToMexican.php

The Lou Curtiss Sound Library
folkartsrarerecords.com/?q=node/7

Folk Arts Rare Records
folkartsrarerecords.com/

American Folklife Center, Library of Congress:
American Memory, California Gold
frontiers.loc.gov/ammem/afccchtml/cowhome.html

Californios, a People and a Culture
californios.us/ca

California History Online — from the Library of Congress
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbintro.html

The Whaley House Museum
whaleyhouse.org

Boosters of Old Town
ot-boot.com

Bob Flesher’s Banjo Rogues
flesherbanjo.com/rogues.html

The Southwest Museum of the American Indian
Autry National Center
autrynationalcenter.org/southwest

The Autry National Center of the American West
& The Museum of the American West
autrynationalcenter.org

El museo de las Californias, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
sic.conaculta.gob.mx

California Mission Studies Association
ca-missions.org/

California Mission Studies Association
Links to resources
ca-missions.org/links.html

International Hispanic Music Study Group
dartmouth.edu/~hispanic

William John Summers’ studies of California Mission Music
californiamissions.com/music/history.html
ca-missions.org/summers.html

SOHO: Save Our Heritage Organisation
sohosandiego.org

Shadows of the Past, a web page on historic reenactment
sptddog.com/sotp/sotp.html

More great music sources from greatcalifornia.com
greatcalifornia.com

Los californios® at Vaquero Days in Descanso, CA: David Swarens, Janet Martini, Vykki Mende Gray.

Photo by Paula Strong

From left: David Swarens, Janet Martini, Vykki Mende Gray
Vaquero Days in Descanso, California.

Pirates anyone?
18th Century Pirate Dances at Fiesta del Río,
a celebration of the Tijuana Estuary and its history, in Imperial Beach, California

Ken Graydon — Western Poet, songwriter, singer
kengraydon.com/

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