Jim Boggio was an American accordionist. He died of heart failure in Cotati, California

Cotati, California

Cotati is an incorporated city in Sonoma County, California, U.S.A., located about north of San Francisco in the 101 corridor between Rohnert Park and Petaluma....

, aged 56. A statue of him stands in La Plaza Park, near the center of Cotati.

Life, education, and career

Boggio's professional music career began with Frankie Yankovic

Frankie Yankovic

Frankie Yankovic was a Grammy Award-winning polka musician. Known as "America's Polka King," Yankovic was the premier artist to play in the Slovenian style during a long and successful career.-Background:Of Slovene descent, he was raised in South Euclid, Ohio...

. He studied music at San Francisco State University

San Francisco State University

San Francisco State University is a public university located in San Francisco, California. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers over 100 areas of study from nine academic colleges...

. From 1991 to 1996, he organized the Cotati Accordion Festival. He had a Zydeco

Zydeco

Zydeco is a form of uniquely American roots or folk music. It evolved in southwest Louisiana in the early 19th century from forms of "la la" Creole music...

/swamp boogie

Swamp pop

Swamp rock is a musical genre indigenous to the Acadiana region of south Louisiana and an adjoining section of southeast Texas. Created in the 1950s and early 1960s by teenaged Cajuns and black Creoles, it combines New Orleans-style rhythm and blues, country and western, and traditional French...

band called The Sonoma Swampdogs and owned a music store: Cotati Accordions.