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 about recordings of the music and sheet music for performing it.

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Member profiles:

Janet Martini
David Swarens
Vykki Mende Gray
           Vykki’s Artwork

Recordings:
   ¡Qué viva la ronda!
   Flowers of Our Lost Romance

• Sound samples from Flowers of Our Lost Romance
  

Song Books:

• Music of Early California: Volumes 1 — 10
  
• Songs of Rancho Camulos
  
• Songs from the California Traditions of the Villa Family
  
• Songs from Francisco Amate
  
• Music of the García Family of Los Angeles
  
• Songs from San Buenaventura: Traditions from Adalaida Cordero Higuera Kamp and José de la Rosa
  

Dance Tune Books:

• Dance tunes from Mexican and Spanish California
  
• Dance Tunes from the Joseph María García Manuscript
  Volume 1: Contradanzas
  Volume 2: Piezas de Danza, Minuets, y Otras Cosas
  
• The Fiddle Tunes of Melquíades Rodríguez,
  a tejano fiddler of yesterday
  

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Spanish-Language Social Music of 19th-Century Southern California

 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.

Californio Music Home

Historic Resources for Spanish-Language Social Music of 19th-Century Southern California

Charles Lummis’ Edison Wax Cylinder Recordings

Historic Casa de Adobe Fiestas Programs and Photographs

• 1937 Program
• 1938 Program
• 1939 Program
• 1940 Program

Other Contributers

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San Diego Friends of Old-Time Music

 Los californios^® is a project of San Diego Friends of Old Time Music, a California non-profit corporation. Find out more here.

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 Takes you to the site portal — the door into the site that leads to each of the other 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!

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Wares

• Recordings:
     
  • ¡Qué viva la ronda!
  
     
  • Flowers of Our Lost Romance
  
  Samples of music from Flowers of Our Lost Romance
  
  
• Music Books:



• Dance Tunes from the Joseph María García Manuscript
  Volume 1: Contradanzas
  Volume 2: Piezas de Danza, Minuets, y Otras Cosas
  


• Music of Early California: Volumes 1 — 10
  


• Songs of Rancho Camulos
  


• Songs from the California Traditions of the Villa Family
  


• Songs from Francisco Amate
  


• Music of the García Family of Los Angeles
  


• Dance tunes from Mexican and Spanish California
  


• El ciego Melquíades: A tejano fiddler of yesterday
  




• Order Form
  

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