- "Sounding off for the accordion: Official San Francisco instrument
boosted"
Kathy Bodvitz continues coverage of the hotest news in town!
San Francisco Chronicle
1/9/90
- "Accordion would be City's main squeeze: Musicians perform outside
City Hall to push resolution giving official status to instrument"
Steven A. Chin and Chris Hardy features TDA!'s lobbying on the day after the
resolution was proposed.
San Francisco Examiner
- "Orchestrated lobbying in San Francisco"
Michael Rondou covers the story for our fans in San Jose!
San Jose Mercury News
1/9/90
- "Will San Francisco embrace accordion and fans want it to be
official instrument"
AP article and photo on TDA!s exhaustive wacky effort in San Francisco's City
Hall.
Marin Independent Journal
1/9/90
- "Squeeze me: The accordion as San Francisco's official instrument?
Guerilla accordion raids on the City's bistros? The squeezebox is back--and
weirder than ever"
Dan Ouelette and Gary Wagner are amazed at TDA! antics of far out petticoat-wear
and a polka for Chicken Boy.
Music Quarterly
2/14/90
- "Accordions go on the attack"
Supermarket tabloid screams news of raids on restaurants and official instrument
lobbying of TDA!
Weekly World News
4/7/90
- "Key vote--Accordion is San Francisco's own"
Kathy Bodovitz prepares citizens for the Board of Supervisor's vote the next day
for official City accordion proclamation.
San Francisco Chronicle
4/24/90
- "The City that knows how to polka"
Rob Morse is hot on trail of the City's not-yet-signed accordion proclamation.
San Francisco Examiner
4/25/90
- "Return of the bad accordion puns"
Rob Morse tells the world that Mayor Art Agnos stalls on signing on May 15 the
proclamation of the accordion as the official instrument of San Francisco.
San Francisco Examiner
5/16/90
- "Lady of Spain, I abhor you...: Should accordion players register
with authorities"
Jesse Birnbaum and Time covers Those Darn Accordions!
Time Magazine
5/28/90
- "Raiders of the night on mellifluous mission"
Katherine Bishop features TDA!'s popular raids of bars and restaurants and
unsuspecting patrons reactions.
The New York Times
6/26/90
OTHER NOTABLE MENTIONS
- Mark Langton's Night Beat column covers local Lady of Spainathon, a
fundraiser for TDA!'s trip to Italy in October. San Francisco Examiner,
6/23/90.
- Herb Caen is impressed with TDA!'s travel plans to Ancona, Italy for the
International Accordion competition in October, 1990. San Francisco Chronicle,
9/17/90.
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