Italy’s musical instruments market on track for third year of growth
by Francesco Prisco The Italian market of musical instruments grew by 10% in 2015, reaching €290.8 million, according to trade group Dismamusica. And the boom isn't over yet, considering that in the first quarter of 2016 sales marked a further growth by 4.87%. Another comforting fact: 2015 was the second year in a row registering...
Let’s Visit Lecce, The “Florence of the South”
By Victoria de Maio Like so many Italian cities, Lecce has a fascination history and story dating back thousands of years. Although touched and influenced by diverse cultures and civilizations, Lecce has retained her own unique charm. Lecce...YesterdayLecce, capital of its province of Salento, is one of the most important cities of Puglia...
Innovative Italian fare at Scarpetta
By Laurie Heuston It's been awhile since a restaurant such as Scarpetta has arrived on the Ashland scene to really shake things up. It's no doubt there are plenty of fine eateries to choose from, but Scarpetta's cuisine is distinct and exclusive. Fresh, locally sourced and organic ingredients from Rogue Valley farms are what's sim...
Michéal Castaldo to Release a New Digi Single, “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” in English/Latin, on November 4
Michéal Castaldo will officially release his digital single of "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" on Vital Records, November 4, 2016. This digital single will be available on Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, and other digital online music e-tail stores worldwide. There are two tracks/mixes of this digital single available, one is a full production and the other is...
In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue
It's been more than 500 years since Italian explorer Christopher Columbus' jaunts across the Atlantic Ocean initiated Europe's permanent colonization of North America. But every October, Queens residents still celebrate his historic yet controversial boat ride to the islands of the Caribbean Sea and their own Italian heritage with a parade...
"Feast of Little Italy": Food, Family, Culture, Tradition, Music & Family Fun in Abacoa
The 14th Annual Feast of Little Italy presented by Arrigo Fiat of West Palm seeks to unify the community again. As we celebrate Italian Heritage Month, we look forward to all of the national and local Italian and Italian American performers appearing on the Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center Stage November 4-6, 2016. This November as Americ...
Madaro Receives ABCD Community Hero Award
By John Lynds When Representative Adrian Madaro's father arrived in the U.S. from Venice, Italy in the late 1970's, he got his first opportunity of economic stability through Action for Boston Community Development's (ABCD) APAC site in East Boston. "My father, Jacopo, arrived here and he got his first job in America at the East B...
Fancy a slice of Hollywood on the banks of Rome's Tiber
What could be more melancholic, extravagant, alienated, operatic and deeply strange than Italian film? Try turning Italian film into a theme park, writes Christine Smallwood. If you had asked me before I visited Rome to free-associate off the phrase 'Italian cinema', I probably would have said something like, "Antonioni-Fellini-Bicycle Thief-littl...
Obit: Annunziata Colella, 66 of New Canaan
By Rich Scinto Annunziata Colella, age 66, a resident of New Canaan for over 45 years died Thursday December 15, 2016 at Norwalk Hospital with her loving family by her side. Born in Marcanise, Province of Caserta, Italy November 5, 1950 she was the daughter of the late Pietro Gaudino and Filomena Musone. She was the wife of Giuseppe (Joe) Colella....
Puglia Center of America premia sei personalità e riceve il testimonial dell'attore hollywoodiano Joe Mantegna
NEW YORK - E' passato circa un mese dal giorno in cui la Puglia Center of America ha celebrato e premiato alcuni dei suoi "figli" di origini pugliesi di spicco in ambito internazionale, nella bellissima sala ricevimenti del Lake Isle Country Club, nella Città di Eastchester, nella Contea del Westchester (New York). Duecento gli ospiti presenti (gi...
The Story of Connecticut's Italians
An 1868 article in the New Britain Record matter of factly reported "a few Italian musicians parading the city's streets." The newspaper's comments signaled the presence of a new immigrant culture, even though only 117 Italians lived in the state then and a mere 879 a decade later. Few could have anticipated the dramatic increases in Italian immigr...
"Artemusica" incanta Santa Monica e Pasadena con il requiem di Mozart
Il coro "Artemusica", diretto dal Maestro Ermanno Zotti, è stato protagonista di due esibizioni molto apprezzate dal folto pubblico accorso alla Saint Monica Church di Santa Monica e alla St. Peter the Apostle Church di Pasadena. Fondato nel 2011, il coro è composto esclusivamente da cantanti non-professionisti ed ha una struttura classica a quatt...