KSLU’s Italian program “Caffé Italia” recently celebrated its ten-year anniversary with a special episode centered around Italy’s “Festival di Sanremo.” The festival, which lasts five nights, is one of Italy’s most popular musical festivals. “Caffé Italia” host and Italian professor Francesco Fiumara played songs from the festival’s past ten winners, using “Festival di Sanremo” as a way to take the listeners through the changes Italian music has made in the past 10 years.
Before “Caffé Italia” was at the university, Fiumara worked at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and hosted the show on their station WESU. KSLU General Manager Todd Delaney explained how “Caffé Italia” was first brought to the university. “Dr. Francesco Fiumara was on campus interviewing for a position with the university ,and he came by the radio station because he had done radio in the past, and I got to talk with him,” said Delaney.
