San Diego Friends of Old-Time Music, Inc.

San Diego Friends of Old-Time Music is a California non-profit corporation dedicated to the preservation and documentation of traditional music and related art forms, and to the encouragement and support of artists engaged in these arts.

The corporation maintains an extensive archive of recorded traditional music, collected over the course of many years by Lou Curtiss.

loscalifornios.com — Site Map
Home Page for Los californios®
      Upcoming events
The Museum Gift Shop
      Recordings:
          Flowers of Our Lost Romance
      Sheet Music Transcriptions
            Music of Early California:
            NEW in 2007: Volume 9
            Music of Early California:
            Volumes 1 — 9 bound together
            El ciego Melquíades:
            A tejano fiddler of yesterday
      Folk Arts Books & Wares
Order Form

loscalifornios.info — Site Map
Spanish-Language Social Music
of 19th-Century Southern California
     Charles Lummis’ Spanish
     Language Music Recordings
     Historic Casa de Adobe
     Fiesta Programs and Photographs
     Historic Resources for
     Spanish-Language Social Music
     of 19th-Century Southern California

loscalifornios.org — Site Map
Home Page for Padua Hills Theatre:
The Mexican Players
     The Historic Physical Setting
     The People — Los paduanos
     The Musicians — Los músicos
     The Dancers — Los bailadores
     Padua Hills Plays
     Las Posadas
     “California Romance”
     Behind the Scenes
     The Vera Family Account
     The Physical Setting Today
     Other Padua Hills Resources
     Related Padua Hills Links

San Diego Friends
of Old-Time Music, Inc.

A primary activity of the Corporation currently is its Los californios® Project.

Los californios® at Adams Avenue Roots Festival, 1996.

Los californios® at Adams Avenue Roots Festival, 1996.

From left: Janet Martini, Rosemary Brophy, Sarah Kerr, Peter DuBois, Vykki Mende Gray, David Swarens

Board of Directors

President — David Swarens

Vice President — José Carvajal

Vice-President — Lou Curtiss

Secretary — Janet Martini

Treasurer — Vykki Mende Gray

Member-at-large — Bonnie Poppe

Member-at-large — José Carvajal

Member-at-large — Virginia Curtiss

Member-at-large/Web Committee — John Odam




Related Efforts

Adams Avenue Roots Festival Picture

Curtis Carlisle Bouterse
Historical Scholar, Traditional Musician (including Medieval music of Spain), and Instrument Maker

The San Diego Troubadour

Calicanto Associates

19th-Century California Sheet Music

Bob Flesher’s Banjo Rogues

The Lou Curtiss Sound Library

La Fiesta de los Californios

Shadows of the Past

Los Alacranes

U. Utah Phillips

The Kathy Kallick Band — Bluegrass

Janet Ashford

High Country — Bluegrass

San Diego Cajun Playboys

Sourdough Slim

San Diego Musicians

Lou and Peter Berryman

Appalachian Traditional Music — A Short History,
by Debby McClatchy

Searchmusicnetwork.com

Musical Traditions — The Magazine for Traditional Music throughout the world



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All rights reserved.

Los californios® is a registered service mark belonging to San Diego Friends of Old-Time Music, Inc.,
a California non-profit corporation.