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Vintage Cuban taxi, Santiago de Cuba 2012

photo by Fletcher Oakes 2000

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   TP & TJ  2005

Dawg music at San Gregorio, early '90s

late night jam, Westwind International Folk Ensemble, Koprivshtitsa, Bulgaria 1995

parade with Jubilee American Dance, Czech Republic 2002  

Chachkas in the studio, San Geranimo 2002

Pam, TP, Larry at birthday party gig, China Camp 2005

Failure To Disperse, Noe Valley Farmers Market, SF 2011

Failure To Disperse (TP, Kerry, Carol, Rodney, Mark) at Noe Valley Farmers Market, SF 2011

morning jam with Larry White, Joseph D'Amico, Bob Applebaum, Barry Schultz, John Schott, TP, Dan Paik, Don Burnham, Amy Kirsch, Mayne Smith, at Sweets Mill 2006

Ngirchoureng with Jim at Koror Night Market, Palau, March 2018

Ngirchoureng at Koror Night Market, Palau, March 2020

I've played mandolin, fiddle, guitar, etc. with:

Wildcat on Toast (Doug, David, TP, Lawrence & unseen Joyce). My first bluegrass band in the 1980s, at Paul's Saloon.  

Doug and I atop Mt Kilimajaro (Uhuru Peak), Tanzania, in 2010.  Tragically Doug died of pancreatic cancer in 2013.

Hayfever (Doug, TP, Holly, David, Lawrence)

Hayfever (clockwise: David, TP, Holly, Lawrence, Doug)

County Line (Sue, TP, Bob, Doug, Paul)

Gold Coast (Paul, TP, Jeanette, Glenn, Tony F) 

Early Mentors

Organizations

Klezmer music

Proximity to some of the central people and influences made it virtually inevitable that I'd be drawn into the klezmer revival:

Red Hot Chachkas 2011 (Diana, Breck, TP, Michael, Julie, Barbara)

Music groups, venues, organizations, media, stuff I like, etc.

Time-wasting odds and ends (old)

Family matters

Louis Friedberg

  TP, Ed, Paula, Carla (SF ~ 1999)

Ed Brown's excellent likeness of brother Tom

Ken (1929-2007), TP, Tom, Lupin (Ashland, Feb. 2007)

4 generations, Paula, Mae, Margot, Anita, Tom, Maureen (Ashland, Mother's Day 2020)

After an Alcatraz swim

Magda (Bodega ~1985)

Margot (SF 2018)

Levin family members at a wedding in New York around 1940.

Standing, L to R: Edwin Brown, Etta Levin Brown, Clara Friedberg, Dorothy Levine Friedberg, Louis Friedberg, Mike Friedberg, Gussie Pfefferblum, Joe Levine. Seated: Sam Brown, Rose Friedberg, Carol Levin, Irving Levin, Ida Levine. Apparently too young to attend: Arnold Brown (10), Paula Levin (10), Arthur Levin (5)

Below, about 4 years later, are Paula, Arthur, Edwin, Arnold:

Etta, Ida, Irving Levin (Grodno, Russia ~1904) 

Abe Pfefferblum (NY~1910)

Florence Klotz (age 13, Brooklyn 1914)

Ken & John Phillips (NY ~ 1934)  

A brief yet telling retrospective

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