Bola and Anne Photos

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Bola Sete at the San Francisco Conservatory

1965

Bola Sete at the San Francisco Conservatory

1965

San Francisco Conservatory

1964

Bola practicing at his Sausalito apartment

1966

Bola soaking his feet at his Sausalito apartment

1968

Bola practicing in Sausalito apartment

Bola Sete at his Sausalito apartment about 1965

Bola Sete waiting to perform

Bola Sete warming up backstage for a school benefit in San Francisco Peninsula

Bola warming up backstage for a benefit for a school in San Francisco Peninsula

1968

In performance. City or circumstance unknown.

Bola Sete performing at a nightclub

About 1965: The Bola Sete Trio; Paulinho, drums; Bola Sete, guitar, Sebastiao Neto, bass

Left to right: The Bola Sete Trio: Paulinho, drums; Bola, guitar, Sebastiao Neto, bass

1968

The Bola Sete Trio: Bola Sete, Sebastiao Neto, Paulinho

1967

Left to right: Bola Sete trio. Paulinho (drums), Bola Sete, and Sebastiao Neto (bass).

1968

The Bola Sete Trio: Paulinho, Bola Sete, Sebastiao Neto

The Bola Sete trio playing at the El Matador in San Francisco. Paulinho on drums and Sebastiao Neto on bass.

1968

The Bola Sete Trio

Bola ete playing a music festival. Joan Baez also appeared, as did Luis Gasca

The Bola Sete trio playing at Mt. Tam, Marin County

From left to right: Sebastiao Neto, Bola Sete

July 13, 1973
"Rainbow" -- John Handy, Ali Akbar Khan, Zukir Hussein, Bola Sete, Subramaniam

Bola Sete in concert

From left to right: Bola Sete, Zakir Hussein

Bola Sete and Zakir Hussein

Left to right: Bola Sete, Zakir Hussein

Rainbow group

Left to right: unknown, Ali Akbar Khan, John Handy, Subramaniam, Bola Sete, Zakir Hussein

Left to right: unknown, Ali AKbar Khan, John Handy, Subramaniam, Bola Sete, Zakir Hussein

Bola Sete 1970

1968

Bola Sete at a Marin County beach

1968

Bola Sete at his Sausalito apartment

1968

Bola Sete at a Marin County beach

Bola Sete at Muir Beach, California

Bola Sete at Muir Beach, California, around 1975.

Marin County beach

1950 to 1959 (in Europe & South America); 1959-1961 (in USA)

Mr. Harvey Watson, Sheraton Palace Hotel executive. He hired Bola Sete in South America. Harvey Watson had Bola Sete play solo electric guitar during cocktail hour, 4 pm to 9 pm. Mr. Watson sent Bola Sete all over South America, Europe, and the USA, where Bola Sete played under contract to the Sheraton Hotel chain.

1980

Bola Sete with Max Weiss, in San Francisco

1969

Left to rightbac, to front: Mike, Bola Sete's neighbor in Sausalito, Sebastiao Neto, Bola Sete, Max Weiss (in fur hat) dancing with Mike's daughter.

1968

Left to right: Ana Neto (wife of Sebastiao Neto), Bola Sete, Anne Sete

Bola Sete at the San Francisco Conservatory

1965

Bola Sete at the San Francisco Conservatory

1965

San Francisco Conservatory

1965

San Francisco Conservatory

1966

Bola practicing the lute in his Sausalito apartment.

Bola with his 12-string lute

Bola practicing in his Sausalito apartment

1964

Bola practicing at his Sausalito apartment

Bola Sete in the kitchen of his Sausalito apartment

Bola Sete in his Sausalito apartment, getting ready to go to work

1980

Bola in the Bay Area Peninsula for a benefit concert

Bola Sete with an unknown group of Brazilian friends

Bola Sete with unknown Brazilian friends

Bola Sete and unknown Brazilian friend

1982

Anne Sete, K. Patabi Jois, and Bola Sete. We studied with J. Patabi Jois while he was teaching in San Anselmo, California.

1967

Trident night club, in Sausalito. Celebrating the birthday of Bola Sete. From left to right at table: Bola Sete, Belle Ganapoler (Lou's wife), Lou Ganapoler (manager of the Trident); Sebastiao Neto, Paulino, Anne Sete

1972

Bola Sete practicing lotus bud. I believe this was about 1972 in Hollywood, California, when he was recording the album "Workin on a Groovy Thing".

1970s Bola Sete practicing yoga at Muir Beach, Marin County, California

Bola Sete practicing yoga at Muir Beach, California

Bola sete practicing yoga at Muir Beach, California

1980

Left to right: Bola Sete watching, Lanny Friedman doing the handstand

1970

Bola Sete and Anne Sete were married on February 14, 1970, in Beverly Hills, California. From left to right: Bola Sete, my wonderful mother Glada Hurd (of Lansdale, Pennsylvania), and Anne Sete. My mother knew how much I loved fresh violets. She found a florist in the area that made me a fresh violet bridal bouquet!

1985

Anne Sete, Bola Sete, Marsue Porter (Anne's college roommate)

Bola Sete, Anne Sete, and others

Thanksgiving at Mitzi Perkins' house in San Anselmo I do not know who the other people are

1964

Left to right: unknown, Bola Sete, Anne Sete. At Bola's apartment in Sausalito.

Friends on left whose names I do not remember. They own "Slice of Life" pizza restaurant in Sebastopol, CAlifornia. Bola Sete and Anne Sete.

1968

Anne Sete and Bola Sete's dog, Tuei

Anne Sete

2005

Anne Sete is back yard of Sausalito house

2007

Jerome the cat

Anne Sete and Bola Sete at a Marin County beach

1969

Anne Sete in Muir Beach

1968

Anne Sete at a Marin County Beach

1970

Anne Sete in Acapulco, Mexico

1968

Anne Sete at a Marin County beach

Anne Sete

Anne Sete at a Marin county beach

1969

Anne Sete at Bola Sete's apartment

1969

Bola Sete and Anne Sete at Tiburon, outside table eating lunch

Bola Sete in Tiburon, California

1970

Bola Sete in Sausalito

Bola Sete in Sausalito, California

Bola Sete's daughter, born in Brazil, when Bola was in his early 20s.

1965 Bola Sete in San Francisco, California

Anne Sete with Tuei, the dog

1968

Tuei on Bola Sete's sofa in his Sausalito apartment

1968

Tuei in Marin Headlands

1968

Tuei in Marin on hike with Bola

1968

Tuei hiking with Bola Sete on Mt. Tam

1968

Tuei at Muir Beach

1968

Anne Sete with one of Bola's guitars; at Bola Sete's Sausalito apartment

1968

Anne Sete at Bola Sete's apartment

1968

Bola Sete in Sausalito apartment

1968

Bola Sete in Sausalito

1965

Anne Sete at an art show at Kraft Foods in 1965

Anne Sete and Donald Walters at a San Francisco art show, about 1964

Anne Sete in Bola Sete's Sausalito apartment kitchen about 1968

1968

Anne Sete at carport of Bola Sete's Sausalito apartment

1969

Anne Sete in Bola Sete's Sausalito apartment kitchen

1965

Bola Sete getting his picture taken at a vending machine in a local mall

Bola Sete at a local mall photo machine

Painting of Bola Sete by a fan (unknown)

1969

Anne Sete visiting Bola Sete's apartment

1965

Anne Sete in a local Marin County play, playing a girl named Lucy

Anne Sete in a Marin County play

1969

Anne Sete downtown Sausalito, near Richardson Bay

Anne Sete in Sausalito, California

1969

Anne Sete at Bola Sete's apartment

1964

Anne Sete at Bola Sete's apartment in Sausalito

Anne Sete at Bola Sete's Sausalito apartment

1969

Anne Sete at Bola Sete's Sausalito apartment

1968

Anne Sete at Bola Sete's apartment

1964

Anne Sete at her Sausalito apartment

1975

Anne Sete in Sausalito. Taken by Bola Sete.

1985

Bola Sete practicing guitar in the bedroom in the Sausalito house

Bola Sete resting in bed, waching TV

1980

I do not know the man on the left. I believe he was interviewing Bola Sete for the Sunday edition of the San Francisco Chronicle. In the living room of our Sausalito house.