Welcome to the Silicon Valley Accordion Society website!
December 1, 2024 - Monterey International
Mike Marotta Jr. is from Monterey, CA where he was born into a family of accomplished musicians. At 15 years old he started his band and now, 50 years later, continues to be one of the busiest musicians on the Monterey Peninsula. He loves playing for SVAS and we love seeing him!!
Dave Dally is an accomplished professional violinist that lives in Carmel Valley and leads the Monterey String Quartet. Dave is very sought after musician and has played at our Club with the Denier brothers, Joe Domitrowich and others. He can often be found Thursday nights performing at Lugano’s Swiss Bistro, in The Barnyard at the mouth of Carmel Valley, just off Hwy 1.
David Marzetti has been the Vocalist with his friend Mike Marotta Jr. for many years singing Standards and Italian favorites.
David comes from a radio background that spans over 45 years. He currently hosts a radio show every weekday 3-6p on KMBY. On Saturday mornings, for 21 years, he has hosted the “ShagBag Show” from the Del Monte Golf Club and “Sundays with Sinatra”: Live from Old Fisherman’s Wharf every Sunday morning. All of David’s shows are heard on 1240am/95.9fm KMBY. He is highly regarded as “Monterey’s Emcee” and hosts many local functions and fundraisers including Festa Italia, Santa Rosalia Queen’s Coronation Ball, La Merienda: the City of Monterey’s Annual Birthday Celebration, Old Fisherman’s Wharf’s Annual Birthday Party, the City of Monterey’s 4th of July Celebration at City Hall, and the Italian Heritage Society Awards Ceremony. David is a frequent Winner of BEST TV/RADIO PERSONALITY in the Monterey Herald Readers Poll. A 3-time winner of the PGA Media Person of the Year Award. Honored by Carmel Chamber as their “Community Champion of the Year” and received the Jim Russo Sr. Paisano of the Year Award. Congressman Jimmy Panetta says David is “The Voice of Monterey”.
Here is a recent video of Dave crooning with Mike and Dave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Tsi5b8jfo
We LOVE having them and you will too! Please join if you can!
Please join us at the church (address below) and share the festivities with us! Bring your accordion and play for us if you can. Let one of the officers know to sign you up.
As of January 2023, we will not be holding Zoom meetings anymore. Thanks so much for your support on this decision. We hope you can join in person! Thank you for your continued support!
As of January 2023, we will not be holding Zoom meetings anymore. Thanks so much for your support on this decision. We hope you can join in person! Thank you for your continued support!
Our dedicated President Colette Ogata has done a great job leading us on this adventure during COVID and back. We are very happy to have her on board. Now we are going back to in-person performances at the church. We'll either have members or a member band play before any professional performers. Bring your accordion and play for us!
Silicon Valley Accordion Society
We'll meet in-person at the church where we were meeting before the COVID pandemic.
Christ Episcopal Church of Los Altos
1040 Border Road
Los Altos, CA 94024
650-948-2151
Directions click here
Silicon Valley Accordion Society meetings are held the first Sunday of each month unless noted.
In-person meetings start at 1:30 with announcements and introductions. Performances start immediately after a break and raffle. This is usually around 3:30. We have club members play before the break. Bring your accordion and let one of the board members know if you are interested in playing for us.
We invite you to visit one of our meetings and listen to wonderful performances by our guests. Our members are more than happy to answer any questions you may have about SVAS and how you can join.
We value your feedback; send us your comments and suggestions. By building an effective web site, we hope to get our message out to a larger audience of people interested in the accordion.
Happy squeezing!
Pamela Kawashima
Webmaster of SVAS
email: pamk@svasociety.org
Christ Episcopal Church of Los Altos
1040 Border Road
Los Altos, CA 94024
650-948-2151
Directions click here
Silicon Valley Accordion Society meetings are held the first Sunday of each month unless noted.
In-person meetings start at 1:30 with announcements and introductions. Performances start immediately after a break and raffle. This is usually around 3:30. We have club members play before the break. Bring your accordion and let one of the board members know if you are interested in playing for us.
We invite you to visit one of our meetings and listen to wonderful performances by our guests. Our members are more than happy to answer any questions you may have about SVAS and how you can join.
We value your feedback; send us your comments and suggestions. By building an effective web site, we hope to get our message out to a larger audience of people interested in the accordion.
Happy squeezing!
Pamela Kawashima
Webmaster of SVAS
email: pamk@svasociety.org