Grazie America! Italian Pop Music Legend Iva Zanicchi and American-Based International Music Icons The Platters® Co-Headline Concert Tour Celebrating America's Liberation of Italy
Legendary Italian pop music icon Iva Zanicchi (Non pensare a me, Zingara, Ciao, cara, come stai?), the only female vocalist to win Italy's famed San Remo Music Festival three times is a row, is returning to the United States on Saturday, April 22, 2017, and Boston's historic Faneuil Hall Meetinghouse, to kick off Festa della Liberazione!, a multici...
Zucchero Black Cat World Tour 2017
Black Cat World Tour 2017. Saturday April 1, Borgata Atlantic City Casino 9:00 pm www.theborgata.com - Sunday, April 2, Foxwoods Resort and Casino 6:00 pm www.foxwoods.com TICKETS & INFORMATION, TICKETS DISCOUNT BLACK CAT CODE. STARDUST SHOWS +1 848 444 9241, GIANNI RUSSO +1 718 968 5195 Credited as the “father of the Italian blues,” Zucchero, who...
Italian Bluegrass master Beppe Gambetta
He once crossed the Iron Curtain to play a bluegrass fest in Czechoslovakia. He sought out Slovakian gypsies to learn their traditional music. He sought out Pete Seeger to jam at his home. He traveled to Mexico just to play with a Mariachi band. Forget the Dos Equis guy. Beppe Gambetta is the Most Interesting Man in the World. Since hearing Doc Wat...
Vivaldi & Leopardi Concert: music and poetry
Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts, Inc. in collaboration with Boston Conservatory at Berklee and The Poets' Theatre under the auspices of Consulate General of Italy in Boston present a special event to benefit Italy earthquake relief effort: Vivaldi & Leopardi "Four Seasons" - "Four Cantos"Friday, March 31, 2017. 8:00 - 9:30 pm. Join us for...
Brown University’s Italian film fest steps back in time
Massimo Riva and his friend Guy Borlée sat at a café table outside the Piazza Maggiore in Bologna sipping wine and dreaming of ways to share their experiences with Riva's friends and family back home in Providence. "I wanted to bring this back to my students at Brown," says Riva, who is a professor of Italian studies at the university. "Brown has b...
Documentary tonight reveals Buddy Cianci
A documentary on ex-Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci will be shown at 7 p.m. Feb. 16 at the Jamestown Arts Center, 16 Valley St. The Emmy Award-winning movie, “Buddy: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Notorious Mayor,” was written, produced and directed by Cherry Arnold. It is a complex portrait of the contradictory and audacious man who became the...
Portland Ovations presents Glories of the Italian Baroque
Saturday, February 11 at 3 pm. Hannaford Hall at USM, Portland (Abromson Center, 88 Bedford St) Maine Public is the media sponsor of Portland Ovations Classical Series including Handel & Haydn Society performing Glories of the Italian Baroque. Concertmaster/violinist Aisslinn Nosky leads an ensemble of 15 Handel & Haydn Society musicians in this gl...
Rocky Club fights for survival after 100 years
Two red boxing gloves rest at the center of a big round decal on the floor at the Rocky Club, its logo symbolizing the club's colorful history hosting bouts in a city steeped in boxing lore. This winter afternoon Lawrence-born Dave Bradstreet, 68, tends bar at the social club, affectionately known as "The Rocky." The large room here at 11 Trinity...
29 gennaio 1951: Fiore e Cesario, italo-americani a confronto
L’alto numero di pugili americani di origine italiana che popolarono le riunioni statunitensi fino agli anni ’50 dello scorso secolo, induceva molti di essi ad affrontarsi tra di loro, in particolar modo quando il valore dei contendenti era più elevato rispetto alla media nazionale. In tale maniera il 29 gennaio 1951, nella città di Holyoke, Massac...
Mount Washington Auto Road hosts Lamborghini Giro
Owners of 24 Lamborghinis paid an eye-popping visit to Mount Washington on Monday as part of the Lamborghini Giro, an annual tour taken on some of the most scenic roads in America. After driving to the summit of the highest peak in the Northeast, the owners of the cars — mainly 10 HP V10 Huracans and the 700 HP V12 Aventadors — enjoyed lunch a...
My Italian secret: the forgotten heroes - National center for Jewish film's jewishfilm.2015
May 5, 2015. Tuesday 7:00 PM - 9:00 PMBJFF - West Newton Cinema - 1296 Washington StreetWest Newton, Massachusetts 02465 An estimated 80 percent of Italy's Jews survived WWII thanks, in part, to Italian citizens who risked their lives defying the Nazis to save their Jewish neighbors. Among the figures spotlighted by Oscar-nominat...
Circolo di Conversazione Italiana!
Benvenuti al Circolo!Siamo un gruppo di persone interessate a non perdere il nostro italiano. Ci raduniamo due volte al mese e cerchiamo veramente di parlare SOLO italiano per due ore! Venite a trovarci alla nostra prossima riunione, ma se non potete,ecco come voi potete creare il vostro proprio circolo. Welcome to Circolo!We are a group o...