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Southern Italian singer-songwriter, composer and actor Peppe Voltarelli will make his New York City concert debut on Wednesday November 11, 2009 at (Le) Poisson Rouge. Born in Italy’s Calabria region, the 40 year-old Voltarelli’s work is a modern Italian’s musical take on the diaspora of tight-knit Calabrian immigrant communities that continue to thrive throughout Europe and the Americas. At (Le) Poisson Rouge Voltarelli will offer a set drawn from his first solo album, 2007’s “Distratto ma però” (Distracted But However), a project which the Rome-based musician has supported with over 200 live shows in Italy and Europe, the results of which were released on his 2008 live album “Duisburg Nantes, Praga”. This New York appearance is part of Pan-American tour which will see Voltarelli perform for the first time in Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Toronto and Montreal.
New York filmgoers have already had the opportunity to see Peppe Voltarelli in a leading role in the 2006 mockumentary feature “La Vera Leggenda di Tony Villar” (The Real Legend of Tony Villar), which showed in official selection at the 2007 TriBeCa Film Festival. The semi-biographical plot follows the path of a contemporary Italian singer (Voltarelli), on the trail of a crooner from his Calabrian village (Villar), who found fame and fortune in 1960’s Argentina and eventually disappeared into anonymity in the Bronx’s Italian community along Arthur Avenue. Directed by fellow Calabrian Giuseppe Gagliardi, “La Vera Leggenda di Tony Vilar” will be screened on Tuesday November 10, 2009 at NYU’s Casa Italiana as a preview to Wednesday’s (Le) Poisson Rouge event. Voltarelli and Gagliardi previously collaborated on “Doichlanda”, a 2003 documentary about Italian immigration to Germany -- their ongoing music and film relationship producing numerous award winning video clips.
Peppe Voltarelli is a founding member of "Il Parto delle Nuvole Pesanti" (The Birth of the Heavy Clouds) one of Italy’s seminal bands of the 1990’s, whose style is a mix of rock and Calabrian folk traditions. Voltarelli’s path as a touring musician has lead him to collaborations with other cutting edge Italian artists exploring similar mixes of old world and new world sounds, such as the German-born Italian raised Vinicio Capossela, Sicilian Roy Paci (Manu Chao) and Neopolitan Daniele Sepe. The Calabrian musician has twice been recognized in Italy’s prestigious Tenco Prize event.
Voltarelli has also contributed music and text to Italy’s theatrical stage with a 2001 work on the life of Domenico Modugno, the multiple Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter who penned one of the most well known Italian popular songs in the world, 1958’s San Remo Festival winning "Nel blu dipinto di blu”, more commonly know as "Volare". Along with the Florence-based Krypton troupe, Voltarelli composed the original music for "Roccu u Stortu" (Rocco the Crooked), the anti-war saga of a Calabrian soldier’s desertion in WWI. An active pacifist, Voltarelli traveled to Iraq in 2003 to participate in a peace concert held in Bagdad’s Palestine Hotel, an account of which can be seen in the documentary "Sotto il cielo di Baghdad" (Under the Baghdad Sky). Voltarelli is also a published author with a collection poetry and songs in Calabrian dialect with English translation.
The opening act for Peppe Voltarelli’s (Le) Poisson Rouge date is the Montreal-based Italo-Canadian singer-songwriter Marco Calliari. The Calabrian-born, one time Latin American star, now based in New York, Tony Villar will make a special guest appearance in Peppe Voltarelli’s set.
This is a first-come seated event. A purchased ticket does not guarantee a seat. Please arrive early.
New York filmgoers have already had the opportunity to see Peppe Voltarelli in a leading role in the 2006 mockumentary feature “La Vera Leggenda di Tony Villar” (The Real Legend of Tony Villar), which showed in official selection at the 2007 TriBeCa Film Festival. The semi-biographical plot follows the path of a contemporary Italian singer (Voltarelli), on the trail of a crooner from his Calabrian village (Villar), who found fame and fortune in 1960’s Argentina and eventually disappeared into anonymity in the Bronx’s Italian community along Arthur Avenue. Directed by fellow Calabrian Giuseppe Gagliardi, “La Vera Leggenda di Tony Vilar” will be screened on Tuesday November 10, 2009 at NYU’s Casa Italiana as a preview to Wednesday’s (Le) Poisson Rouge event. Voltarelli and Gagliardi previously collaborated on “Doichlanda”, a 2003 documentary about Italian immigration to Germany -- their ongoing music and film relationship producing numerous award winning video clips.
Peppe Voltarelli is a founding member of "Il Parto delle Nuvole Pesanti" (The Birth of the Heavy Clouds) one of Italy’s seminal bands of the 1990’s, whose style is a mix of rock and Calabrian folk traditions. Voltarelli’s path as a touring musician has lead him to collaborations with other cutting edge Italian artists exploring similar mixes of old world and new world sounds, such as the German-born Italian raised Vinicio Capossela, Sicilian Roy Paci (Manu Chao) and Neopolitan Daniele Sepe. The Calabrian musician has twice been recognized in Italy’s prestigious Tenco Prize event.
Voltarelli has also contributed music and text to Italy’s theatrical stage with a 2001 work on the life of Domenico Modugno, the multiple Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter who penned one of the most well known Italian popular songs in the world, 1958’s San Remo Festival winning "Nel blu dipinto di blu”, more commonly know as "Volare". Along with the Florence-based Krypton troupe, Voltarelli composed the original music for "Roccu u Stortu" (Rocco the Crooked), the anti-war saga of a Calabrian soldier’s desertion in WWI. An active pacifist, Voltarelli traveled to Iraq in 2003 to participate in a peace concert held in Bagdad’s Palestine Hotel, an account of which can be seen in the documentary "Sotto il cielo di Baghdad" (Under the Baghdad Sky). Voltarelli is also a published author with a collection poetry and songs in Calabrian dialect with English translation.
The opening act for Peppe Voltarelli’s (Le) Poisson Rouge date is the Montreal-based Italo-Canadian singer-songwriter Marco Calliari. The Calabrian-born, one time Latin American star, now based in New York, Tony Villar will make a special guest appearance in Peppe Voltarelli’s set.
This is a first-come seated event. A purchased ticket does not guarantee a seat. Please arrive early.
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Peppe Voltarelli
Southern Italian singer-songwriter, composer and actor Peppe Voltarelli will make his New York City concert debut on Wednesday November 11, 2009 at (Le) Poisson Rouge. Born in Italy’s Calabria region, the 40 year-old Voltarelli’s work is a modern Italian’s musical take on the diaspora of tight-knit Calabrian immigrant communities that continue to thrive throughout Europe and the Americas. At (Le) Poisson Rouge Voltarelli will offer a set drawn from his first solo album, 2007’s “Distratto ma però” (Distracted But However), a project which the Rome-based musician has supported with over 200 live shows in Italy and Europe, the results of which were released on his 2008 live album “Duisburg Nantes, Praga”. This New York appearance is part of Pan-American tour which will see Voltarelli perform for the first time in Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Toronto and Montreal.
New York filmgoers have already had the opportunity to see Peppe Voltarelli in a leading role in the 2006 mockumentary feature “La Vera Leggenda di Tony Villar” (The Real Legend of Tony Villar), which showed in official selection at the 2007 TriBeCa Film Festival. The semi-biographical plot follows the path of a contemporary Italian singer (Voltarelli), on the trail of a crooner from his Calabrian village (Villar), who found fame and fortune in 1960’s Argentina and eventually disappeared into anonymity in the Bronx’s Italian community along Arthur Avenue. Directed by fellow Calabrian Giuseppe Gagliardi, “La Vera Leggenda di Tony Vilar” will be screened on Tuesday November 10, 2009 at NYU’s Casa Italiana as a preview to Wednesday’s (Le) Poisson Rouge event. Voltarelli and Gagliardi previously collaborated on “Doichlanda”, a 2003 documentary about Italian immigration to Germany -- their ongoing music and film relationship producing numerous award winning video clips.
Peppe Voltarelli is a founding member of "Il Parto delle Nuvole Pesanti" (The Birth of the Heavy Clouds) one of Italy’s seminal bands of the 1990’s, whose style is a mix of rock and Calabrian folk traditions. Voltarelli’s path as a touring musician has lead him to collaborations with other cutting edge Italian artists exploring similar mixes of old world and new world sounds, such as the German-born Italian raised Vinicio Capossela, Sicilian Roy Paci (Manu Chao) and Neopolitan Daniele Sepe. The Calabrian musician has twice been recognized in Italy’s prestigious Tenco Prize event.
Voltarelli has also contributed music and text to Italy’s theatrical stage with a 2001 work on the life of Domenico Modugno, the multiple Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter who penned one of the most well known Italian popular songs in the world, 1958’s San Remo Festival winning "Nel blu dipinto di blu”, more commonly know as "Volare". Along with the Florence-based Krypton troupe, Voltarelli composed the original music for "Roccu u Stortu" (Rocco the Crooked), the anti-war saga of a Calabrian soldier’s desertion in WWI. An active pacifist, Voltarelli traveled to Iraq in 2003 to participate in a peace concert held in Bagdad’s Palestine Hotel, an account of which can be seen in the documentary "Sotto il cielo di Baghdad" (Under the Baghdad Sky). Voltarelli is also a published author with a collection poetry and songs in Calabrian dialect with English translation.
The opening act for Peppe Voltarelli’s (Le) Poisson Rouge date is the Montreal-based Italo-Canadian singer-songwriter Marco Calliari. The Calabrian-born, one time Latin American star, now based in New York, Tony Villar will make a special guest appearance in Peppe Voltarelli’s set.
New York filmgoers have already had the opportunity to see Peppe Voltarelli in a leading role in the 2006 mockumentary feature “La Vera Leggenda di Tony Villar” (The Real Legend of Tony Villar), which showed in official selection at the 2007 TriBeCa Film Festival. The semi-biographical plot follows the path of a contemporary Italian singer (Voltarelli), on the trail of a crooner from his Calabrian village (Villar), who found fame and fortune in 1960’s Argentina and eventually disappeared into anonymity in the Bronx’s Italian community along Arthur Avenue. Directed by fellow Calabrian Giuseppe Gagliardi, “La Vera Leggenda di Tony Vilar” will be screened on Tuesday November 10, 2009 at NYU’s Casa Italiana as a preview to Wednesday’s (Le) Poisson Rouge event. Voltarelli and Gagliardi previously collaborated on “Doichlanda”, a 2003 documentary about Italian immigration to Germany -- their ongoing music and film relationship producing numerous award winning video clips.
Peppe Voltarelli is a founding member of "Il Parto delle Nuvole Pesanti" (The Birth of the Heavy Clouds) one of Italy’s seminal bands of the 1990’s, whose style is a mix of rock and Calabrian folk traditions. Voltarelli’s path as a touring musician has lead him to collaborations with other cutting edge Italian artists exploring similar mixes of old world and new world sounds, such as the German-born Italian raised Vinicio Capossela, Sicilian Roy Paci (Manu Chao) and Neopolitan Daniele Sepe. The Calabrian musician has twice been recognized in Italy’s prestigious Tenco Prize event.
Voltarelli has also contributed music and text to Italy’s theatrical stage with a 2001 work on the life of Domenico Modugno, the multiple Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter who penned one of the most well known Italian popular songs in the world, 1958’s San Remo Festival winning "Nel blu dipinto di blu”, more commonly know as "Volare". Along with the Florence-based Krypton troupe, Voltarelli composed the original music for "Roccu u Stortu" (Rocco the Crooked), the anti-war saga of a Calabrian soldier’s desertion in WWI. An active pacifist, Voltarelli traveled to Iraq in 2003 to participate in a peace concert held in Bagdad’s Palestine Hotel, an account of which can be seen in the documentary "Sotto il cielo di Baghdad" (Under the Baghdad Sky). Voltarelli is also a published author with a collection poetry and songs in Calabrian dialect with English translation.
The opening act for Peppe Voltarelli’s (Le) Poisson Rouge date is the Montreal-based Italo-Canadian singer-songwriter Marco Calliari. The Calabrian-born, one time Latin American star, now based in New York, Tony Villar will make a special guest appearance in Peppe Voltarelli’s set.
Marco Calliari
Marco Calliari is a Canadian singer-songwriter whose music is a personal exploration of the Italian diaspora and its folklore. Calliari, a founding member of the highly successful Francophone thrash metal band Anonymus, uses the stage savvy from his previous artistic incarnation and skillfully combines it with traditional Italian rhythms such as tarantella with elements of flamenco, klezmer, reggae, ska and rock. His songs can be called ‘caricatures’ in the real Italian sense of the word ‘caricare’ -- ‘loaded’ portraits that reflect an expatriate’s affection and irony towards Italy’s iconic popular music.
Born in Montreal in the mid-seventies to Italian immigrants, Calliari adopted the French language of his peers which was considered unusual in an Italo-Canadian community that tended to identify with English speakers. His career with Anonymus began when Calliari was just 14 years old. He spent the next 15 years playing hundreds of concerts and TV shows throughout Quebec.
Calliari unexpectedly reclaimed his musical roots on a visit to Italy where he spontaneously sang classic Italian songs at his sister’s wedding. The emotion of the performance inspired him to record “Che La Vita” in 2003. Calliari wrote all 14 tracks for the album in Italian and went on to sell 25,000 on his own independent label, Casa Nostra. A second album in 2006, “Mia Dolce Vita”, sold another 35,000 copies. The project consisted of covers of songs culled from a wide variety of sources from Italian songwriters like Nino Rota, Renato Carosone and Toto Cutugno to some of Italy's great modern poets such as Fabrizio De André and Lucio Dalla to the current generation exemplified by Blonde Redhead, who were born in Italy but also raised in Montreal.
A local favorite, Calliari is a staple of Montreal cultural events and television and radio broadcasts. His powerful performances of classic Italian songs have also made him quite popular on the touring circuit in Europe. As a festival producer and concert promoter, Calliari actively promotes Italian music in Quebec. His song “L’Americano” is featured on the new the Putumayo Italia compilation.
Born in Montreal in the mid-seventies to Italian immigrants, Calliari adopted the French language of his peers which was considered unusual in an Italo-Canadian community that tended to identify with English speakers. His career with Anonymus began when Calliari was just 14 years old. He spent the next 15 years playing hundreds of concerts and TV shows throughout Quebec.
Calliari unexpectedly reclaimed his musical roots on a visit to Italy where he spontaneously sang classic Italian songs at his sister’s wedding. The emotion of the performance inspired him to record “Che La Vita” in 2003. Calliari wrote all 14 tracks for the album in Italian and went on to sell 25,000 on his own independent label, Casa Nostra. A second album in 2006, “Mia Dolce Vita”, sold another 35,000 copies. The project consisted of covers of songs culled from a wide variety of sources from Italian songwriters like Nino Rota, Renato Carosone and Toto Cutugno to some of Italy's great modern poets such as Fabrizio De André and Lucio Dalla to the current generation exemplified by Blonde Redhead, who were born in Italy but also raised in Montreal.
A local favorite, Calliari is a staple of Montreal cultural events and television and radio broadcasts. His powerful performances of classic Italian songs have also made him quite popular on the touring circuit in Europe. As a festival producer and concert promoter, Calliari actively promotes Italian music in Quebec. His song “L’Americano” is featured on the new the Putumayo Italia compilation.
Tony Vilar
Tony Vilar is an extraordinary figure. An extremely popular singer in almost all of Latin America throughout the 1960's, he first came to Argentina as a child in the early 50's. Born in the town of Carolei, in the Calabria region of Italy, he came to Buenos Aires with his parents. He met with success in the early Sixties, achieving stardom as a singer of popular Italian hits. In the course of his career, he sold more than a million records, and he was the first performer to make "Cuando calienta el sol" a worldwide success.