Mister Melodeon! 
Help support my music and my charity work here

Street Musician

Thanks for checking out my website. I'm a street musician who works the occasional party. I enjoy meeting people and I'm very pleased that so many folks like my music.

The melodeon pictured here is a button accordion, the kind the mariachis, Cajun/zydeco musicians, and gondoliers play. It's different from the American piano accodion. It plays differently and is a much older instrument. I like playing the melodeon because it always sounds festive.

I have been playing melodeon 25 years. I've also played the violin/fiddle and clarinet, though I prefer the melodeon. My instrument is a German-style Hohner, designed in the late-1800s. My instrument is 25 years old.

Contact me: sfdavidkaye@yahoo.com


Your gifts help support my music and my charity work!

My whole life is dedicated to helping make people happy.  You can help support my mission.  These are the things I have done and will be doing:

 Have Done and Will Do: 

  • Co-founded Pacific Center a non-profit 501(c)(3) community center in Berkeley.

  • Created a suicide prevention handbook.

  • Organized SF Games, a weekly free games group in San Francisco to help create community spirit

  • Organized East Bay Games, a free Fremont/Newark area games to help create community spirit
    http://eastbaygames.org

  • Organized Game Night (now called Quick Tricks Bridge Club), also a free non-profit community program

  • Produced over 200 live music shows over 7 years to help bring the music community together - totally free! 

  • Producing free karaoke shows for nursing homes, homes for the aged, and group homes

  • Run a commercial-free G-rated Roku cartoon channel targeted to kids to show in medical, dental offices, and other kid-places

  • Run a free old-time radio show especially for elderly and shut-ins called Great Old Time Radio
    http://www.greatoldtimeradio.com

  • And of course I play music on the streets to help brighten the day for people.

Melodeon Sample

How You Can Help My Work

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My Biography:  I have done many things in my life so far.  I began playing clarinet music at age 9, switched to violin at age 30, and today I play the melodeon (button accordion) exclusively. I also sing. But my first career was radio and TV broadcasting. I worked 12 years in broadcasting as a radio and TV engineer, and also as talent as a radio DJ, talkshow host in Portland, and as a TV movie host in Sacramento.  I'm from the San Francisco Bay Area, and have lived in SF, Hayward, Oakland, Richmond, and now Fremont.

In March 2020 I got one of the worst cases of Covid-19 that UCSF Medical Center and SF General Hospital had ever seen.  I was in a coma for 12 days, in the hospital for 3 months, and literally had to learn to walk again. I'm still a bit stiff and sometimes use a cane. I have progressed a lot thanks to the folks in the hospital and my physical therapist.

Prior to March 2020 I had a successful career doing freelance computer and network technical support, but 3 months in the hospital unfortunately lost that career for me.  I've been unsuccessful re-establishing that business. So, today music is my career once again.  I love playing music, singing, and helping make people happy.

 

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You can contact me here: sfdavidkaye@yahoo.com