Volume 46 Edition 1 January 2017 Submit articles to:
[email protected] By the 15th of each month FFS Board Of Directors President A Non-Profit Corporation for Traditional Arts Denise Sciandra
[email protected] Notes from Board President, Denise Sciandra Vice President Introducing Leland and Fina Vander Poel. They are new to the Kenny Paul Starcevich Hall’s Jam on Wednesday nights at the Basque but they are not new to
[email protected] music. This father and his 12-year-old daughter most often play the Secretary Sue Wirt guitar and mandolin at the Basque but they are proficient on other
[email protected] instruments as well. Treasurer Leland says that he grew up in a home where his family listened to a lot of Jim Ross
[email protected] country music including Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Porter Wagoner, Buck and Roy and the whole Hee-Haw gang. He took his first formal music lessons in grade Concert Master Steve Ono school on the violin for about two years. He then took piano lessons for a couple
[email protected] of years. He got into rock/pop music as a young teen. By high school, he was Membership playing some guitar and piano in garage bands. While attending Fresno City Patty Bennett
[email protected] College, he sang in the college choir and chamber singers. He even traveled to Romania and Bulgaria one summer with them on an exchange tour. “I practically Lifetime Member Alan Hubbart lived in the music building at FCC for a couple of years, taking music theory as Members At Large well as piano and choir classes,” he says.