Author Archives: Cotati Accordion Festival

2013 Honorary Director I was born in Petaluma in 1936 to Silvio and Mary Volpi of Northern Italian Heritage. My father took lessons from Professor Angelo Cagnazzo in the 1920s and later played with the Traveling Minstrels. Angelo Cagnazzo was also Dick Contino’s teacher. He taught mainly in San Francisco and played in the Italian neighborhoodContinue reading “John Volpi”