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–Evo Bluestein 
Afghani Dance, Rosa Rojas, 2007
Alma (full concert), Agustin Lira, Patricia Wells Solarzano, Ravi Knypstra
Some people went to Selma, Alabama in 1965 and had their eyes opened. My eyes were forever opened when I went to Delano the first time I went to the picket line and witnessed what was taking place.–Agustin Lira
Andrea La Canela in Coffeehouse
Aywah 1995-Rampi Rampi and Balance Dance
There were a lot of Arabic clubs in San Francisco and in the East Bay. That’s how I met Persian santoor player Darioush Sami. He played for one of the restaurants on the edge of Berkeley and Oakland. We worked the Renaissance Faires for many years.–Katarina Burda
Blue Shoes from Columbia, CA. Peg Reza and Doug Johnson–Great Dance in Coffeehouse
Carrie Lauer and David Strong play a few European dance tunes. Katarina Burda and Pat Wolk waltz to the music.
Donde Tu Iras Puerto Rican in Cantina
Evening at Turkish Coffeehouse
Fiddle Contest at Cantina (fragment includes Kenny Hall, Adam Rose, Ray Bierl, Mark Olson)
Finegold Campout 1989, video by David Strong
There were a few years when Sweet’s Mill was unavailable and we held our tribal gatherings nearby.
Fiona dance in Flamenco camp 2002
Flat Land Blues • Mississippi Chris Sharp at Cantina
Greek Music in Coffeehouse 1994
Sweet’s Mill–there’s been nothing like it since, as far as I know. It made a lot of people serious about music because of the opportunities they had in a situation as wonderful as that. I think what it did for me, it did for a hundred other people that I could probably name. It made us serious about music and inspired us to find the time to be musicians. –Will Spires
Julia Innocenti in Coffeehouse
“I was fifteen when I learned from juke boxes and W. D. Sanford. I just played for fun until I got to Sanger–Pierce’s Park and Dotty’s Den. All the college kids would come out to Dotty’s Den and “square dance,” as well you could in that little place.” –Kenny Hall
Marc Silber sings You’re Gonna Quit Me Blues
“I tend to go into things as far as my interest will take me. Of all the ethnic or roots stuff, blues is my favorite thing.”–Marc Silber
Mira Belly Dance in Coffeehouse
Moliendo Cafe, 1995–Rumba in Coffeehouse
Nada Lewis Coffeehouse Choir 1994
Sweet’s Mill was a place of peak experiences, not just for me but for other people that I talked to. –Nada Lewis
Que Chula Prieta • Peña-Govea Family, Kenny Hall and Friends 2003
Radio Afghanistan in Coffeehouse
Ray Bierl Concert in the Cantina
“Mayne Smith was a huge entry point for me getting into commercial country music. He was writing songs in that style. He would come down to San Diego to play, and I opened for him. He was doing Buck Owens songs and his own songs in that same style. I got into ‘40s and ‘50s Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb stuff.” –Ray Bierl
Sol Feldthouse sings Minnie the Moocher
“People do music because they have no choice. Some folks are put together so they can’t not pick tunes. If they don’t do it they are going to die. They have no choice. Some folks are born that way. I’m one of them.” –Solomon Feldthouse
Todalo Shakers and Friends Play The Hickman Rag
If I had known about Sweet’s Mill when I was a kid–never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined anything like it. Virgil’s style of leadership has been a big inspiration to me.–Suzy Thompson
Viva dances Romani dance Demme Demme in the Turkish Coffeehouse, 1998
“I liked playing music and it was natural as could be. I started spending more and more time there. I went over every year, coming early to help set it up and late to tear it down and by 1974 and 1975 I was spending as much as eight weeks there and maybe a couple of weeks at New Year’s.. We worked helping Virgil, setting up kitchens and trenched water and moved a lot of power around. ” –Warren Argo
Yesilim (Turkey): • Monica Sakellaridis and Aywah 2003
“. . . deeply moving, warmly, astonishingly beautiful — a worthy permanent contribution to our local cultural history, impossible to over-estimate its importance, its weight.” –Jim Powell
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