"Throughout the day and the weekend, OCTA members came to me with their enthusiastic compliments and thanks for your marvelous program of recitation and music to tell the Anza Trail. I cannot remember in my 25 years with OCTA that I have ever seen a spontaneous standing ovation to speakers or musicians. It came from every member who was touched by their own family experience about the migration of men and women with their children to settle or move into a new region or state or city.
You taught us with song and music to accept to mourn and to be joyous at any occasion. So many people commented that they enjoyed being educated about the Anza Trail. You have an outstanding program to share"

Mary Mueller, Oregon-California Trails Association, May 7, 2006

"Thanks again for your wonderful performance of the Calicanto Singers last week. It was truly a delight, and it gave our visitors an appreciation for the music and instruments of the Gold Rush. Your stories and songs were entertaining and educational - and the audience loved them. It was a great family program!. . . "

Margaret Kadoyama, Museum Consultant, Oakland museum of California, James Moore Theatre, re: "Days of '49! Songs from California's History with the Calicanto Singers, June 26, 1998

"The Calicanto Singers imparted a sense of what it must have been like to live in California at the time of the Gold Rush."

Terry Heinzman, Event coordinator, Oakland Museum of California