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Meet the San Diego Cajun Playboys

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Jon Accordion, fiddle, Cajun French vocals
Jon A fiddler since he was knee-high, Jon started learning the accordion and Cajun French after visiting his first Festivals Acadiens in Lafayette, Louisiana, in 1993. While living in Texas, Jon played Cajun music at the legendary Third Coast honky-tonk on South Padre Island. After heading west to Southern California, Jon formed the band in 1997. And after seven years of playing Cajun dances and festivals on the left coast, the band released its first CD Small Town Two Step in 2004 . . . which promptly won the Cajun French Music Association's "Le Cajun Award" in 2006 for the Best Cajun Band Outside of Louisiana. How about that!!
Bill Acoustic & electric guitar, harmony vocals, accordion
Bill is the band's only single Playboy! The last single "Playboy" in the group to get hitched (in June, 2007), Bill is also one of the original San Diego Cajun Playboys since back in the last century -- 1997, that is. Now he's learning the 10-button accordion for kicks, while he works as a mild-mannered tooling design engineer by day. Bill is the proprietor of the world-famous Riddell Music conglomerate of San Diego, Califorina, as well as a producer of Small Town Two Step.
Greg T-fer (Cajun triangle)
Greg A Cajun from Jennings, Louisiana, Greg has family back in Crowley and Iota, Louisiana. Greg operates a computer consulting business in sunny El Cajon, California, which hosts this web site on Cajun Network.com . A Playboy since 1998, Greg quickly settled down and married Adriana.
Danny Electric bass & guitar
Danny Danny joined the Playboys at the request of his co-worker Bill in 2000 . . . basically to try out the gumbo and boiled crawfish at the gigs. An excellent bass and guitar player, who plays music in church every Sunday, Danny is one of the Playboys' secret weapons in the rhythm section.
Joe Drums
Joe Joe joined the band in 2000 because Bill and Danny talked him into it . . . now it's just plain fun. A father of two, Joe races motorcycles while his wife is out riding horses. Joe keeps the Playboys on track with a great dancing beat . . . so all the fans can get plenty of exercise when the band plays four-hour Cajun dances in San Diego, Gardena and Monrovia, California.
Joel (Emeritus) Accordion, fiddle, Cajun French vocals
Joel A Cajun from Loreauville, Louisiana (pop. 860), Joel is self-taught on the accordion, fiddle and in Cajun French. A Playboy since 1999, Joel works as an architect in Los Angeles . . . and since 2004, he's back in Louisiana working on a new family homestead near St. Martinville. Joel wrote two songs for the Playboys' CD -- Small Town Two Step -- and created all the artwork too. Joel just also happens to have designed the September 11 memorial at Los Angeles Airport, along with Chicago artist B.J. Krivanek.
Josh(Emeritus) Accordion, fiddle, Cajun French vocals
Josh A Cajun from Church Point, Louisiana, Josh was the Playboys' new kid on the block for 2004, but now he's back home in Louisiana too. Josh was the band's third Cajun music "triple threat" -- fiddle, accordion and Cajun French vocals, that is -- Josh's regulation haircut gives a clue about his chosen profession as one of the few, the proud. Semper Fi!