Waukegan-Zion Field Survey

1987 Summer Fieldwork Project

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Date	Artist	Hometown	Instrument	Style / Ethnicity
5/15/1987	Julie Weakley with Just the Three of Us	Waukegan	brac, bugarija & bass	tamburitza / Croatian
5/16/1987	El Conjunto Fortuna; Tropical del Valle	Waukegan	acordeon, bajo sexto &c.; keyboards, saxophone &c.	Musica Nortena / Tejano; Mexican
5/17/1987	Jane Gregorin Bena * with Waukegan Midwest Polka Showcase (at Vy's Yellow Bird)	Waukegan (event in Antioch)	button box accordions, saxophone &c.	polka / Slovenian
5/22/1987	Jerry Emerzian *	Waukegan	oud, dumbek	Armenian
5/24/1987	St. Nicholas Serbian Church * youth folk dance groups	Waukegan (event  in Merrillville, Indiana)	folk dance	Serbian
5/27/1987	Raymond Podboy	Waukegan	button box accordion	Slovenian
6/9/1987	Bill Jereb * with Slovenic Home Choral Society	Waukegan	vocal	Slovenian
6/11/1987	Don Adams	Wadsworth	caller	old-time
6/12/1987	Arvid Anderson *	Waukegan	accordion	Norwegian
6/17/1987	Warren Lauer	Wildwood	accordion, harmonica	old-time
6/28/87	Stanley Assee * with the Mellotones Steel Band	Waukegan	steel pans	Afro-Caribbean
7/28/1987	Osmo Puistolahti * with Sibelius Male Chorus	Gurnee	vocal & guitar	Finnish
8/1/1987	Trini Esparza with El Conjunto Fortuna	Waukegan	acordeon, bajo sexto &c.	Tejano
8/4/1987	Lilia Briones * with Ballet Folklorico de San Jose	Waukegan	folk dance	Mexican
8/9/1987	Mellotones Steel Band; Filipino American Association dancers at Waukegan Lakefront Festival	Waukegan	steel pans; folk dance	Afro-Caribbean; Filipino
10/1/1987	Jerry Emerzian	Waukegan	oud	Armenian
11/1/1987	Emil Swanson	Zion	mandolin, fiddle	old-time

1990 Followup Survey

Date	Artist	Hometown	Instrument	Style / Ethnicity
1990	Trini Esparza con Los Ecos del Norte	Waukegan	bajo sexto, vocal	musica nortena / Tejano
1990	___ ____	Zion	vocals	Hindustani
1990	John Campbell	Zion	Afro-American	piano blues

* interview, no recording