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http://www.accordions.com/news.aspx?d=03-Aug-2012&lang=ru&s=5979
03-Aug-2012
by Harley Jones
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 Excerpts of an article written by Courtney Buchanan of the Santa Cruz Patch newspaper.Behind the crazy costumes of Santa Cruz's street performer "The Great Morgani" is a fashion lover and community representative. Known as “The Great Morgani” by the Santa Cruz community, Frank Lima, 69, has been performing as an accordion extraordinaire for 15 years. “People want to see the spectacle,” said Lima. “Oh what shoes is he wearing now? I have to create a fashion monster.” Playing the accordion to entertain others is Lima’s hobby and with 42 accordions, 130 costumes and over 1,200 songs, every performance is different. One of Lima’s favorite parts of being a street performer is seeing the crowd react to his songs and his all-out costumes. Although they sometimes take up to 100 hours of work, Lima said, “My passion is the costumes. The music is very easy for me.” Four years ago when Lima was performing, a 3-year-old girl named Emily showed up with a little accordion and started playing next to him. When her father asked Lima to come to Emily’s birthday party, he showed up to a room full of 4-year-olds with their own accordions. To this day Emily comes to perform with Lima. He wrote a book titled 'The Great Morgani: The Creative Madness of a Middle-Aged Stock Broker Turned Street Musician' which provides an inside look into the street performer’s life and costume design. ----------------------- Take a look at the inventive spaceman costume (picture left). The headpiece is constructed of two salad bowls, with a plastic cup on top, and a pink pom pom. If you look at the base of box, you will see the shoes, that Morgani was going to wear, standing by the box.. They are regular shoes, with plastic water glasses bolted onto the bottoms, but a little shakey!!! What incredible attention to detail with the costumes. Morgani arrives in costume and, is a self contained acoustic show, requires no special staging, amplification or electricity. His costumes are all hand crafted and cover him from the feet to the top of the head, as well as the accordion itself. He performs on a compact portable stage. The stage is carefully crafted to match the costume and raises him about one and a half feet about the floor...so everyone gets a good view. Pictures of other costumes below. The Great Morgani is surely a unique one man accordion show! |
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