{"id":6559,"date":"2012-06-20T10:20:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T17:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=6559"},"modified":"2012-06-20T10:20:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T17:20:43","slug":"wacky-and-fun-music-festivals-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wacky-and-fun-music-festivals-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Wacky and Fun Music Festivals in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/cotaccord.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The lost art of accordion playing isn&#8217;t so lost in Cotati, California, where each summer the town gathers &#8217;round for one of the biggest accordion festivals in the nation. It&#8217;s amazing to see all the accordion players come out and into the park for a two day event that showcases some of the best accordion talent to be had. The 22nd Annual Cotati Accordion Festival (cotatifest.com) takes place Sat. &amp; Sun. August 18 &amp; 19, 2012, 9:30 a.m. &#8211; 8 p.m. at La Plaza Park in Cotati, where you&#8217;ll find a statue of locally famous Jim Boggio. He was a large man with an even bigger heart,\u00a0 and he played the accordion exceedingly well. He helped organize the event that has become a tradition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wacky Music Events &amp; Festivals in California:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CALIFORNIA\u00a0\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-accordion-festivals.html\"> list of Accordion Festivals 2012 <\/a><\/li>\n<li>FULLERTON\u00a0 Muck Roots Ukulele Festival\u00a0 July 19th, 2012 \u00a0 themuck.org<\/li>\n<li>NAPA Porch Fest July 29, 2012 -Live music performed on porches in city&#8217;s picturesque neighborhoods<\/li>\n<li>COTATI Accordion Festival August 18-19, 2012, cotatifest.org<\/li>\n<li>ST. HELENA Wine Country Ukulele Festival September 7-9, 2012<\/li>\n<li>NAPA\u00a0 Mark Hummel&#8217;s Blues Harmonica Blow Out\u00a0 September 13, 2012<\/li>\n<li>BAY AREA\u00a0 KlezCalifornia concerts &amp; events calendar,\u00a0 klezcalifornia.org<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>UNIQUE ONE MAN BAND<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SACRAMENTO\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/entertainment\/sacramento-winko-one-man-band.html\">Winko (Harrington King) One Man Band<\/a> &#8211; his van is known as the Acoustic Sanctuary where he plays dozens of instruments in medleys and songs, acousticsanctuary.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lost art of accordion playing isn&#8217;t so lost in Cotati, California, where each summer the town gathers &#8217;round for one of the biggest accordion festivals in the nation. It&#8217;s amazing to see all the accordion players come out and into the park for a two day event that showcases some of the best accordion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}