When: Thu, July 14, 2022 from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM EDT - Where: I AM Books, 124 Salem Street, Boston, MA 02113

Growing up in Cosenza, Calabria, Antonio Bevacqua was inspired as a child listening to popular music. In 1996, he graduated from the University of Calabria in Modern Literature with honors and a thesis on the music and the Calabrian folk instruments. He later worked for several years with the Centre for demo-anthropological documentation of the University of Calabria directed by Professor Ottavio Cavalcanti, with whom he participated with as a researcher to the realization of several documentaries including: Gypsies in Provence (The Saintes Maries de la Mer, France) and I serpari of Cocullo. He also worked to archive cataloging Otello Profazio.