International Accordion Festival - Southern Scratch

Here is the description provided by the International Accordion Festival: "Southern Scratch is a Native American band from the Tohono O'odham Nation in southern Arizona. They play a form of dance music called waila, or "chicken scratch". Their repertoire consists of waltzes, two-steps, polkas and rancheras and traditionally is played by a band consisting of button accordion, alto saxophone, electric guitar, bass, and drums". This is a fabulous dance band. I would describe the music as Tex-Mex, except the instrumentation is a little different with the alto sax / accordion combination.

Also in the Tex-Mex groove, we saw Los Texmaniacs, a great conjunto group featuring Max Baca on bajo, Speedy Villanueva on bass, and David Farias on accordion - we were too busy dancing to take photos though!