My friend and Third Street neighbor, Bob Goldberg, who is one of the Accordian Angels, also has another band called, Le Nozze di Carlo.

This band was put together to play at an Italian friend’s wedding. The band lasted longer than the marriage. Le (The) Nozze (Wedding) di (of) Carlo (Charles) is the translation. The Italiano lesson is finished. La lezione di Italiano e’ finito.

They gig in the NYC area. Sometimes, you can find them in restaurants (vegetarian, French, and Louisiana/Italian), bars, lounges, cafes, museums, art galleries and the occasional shopping center.

They love to play without any amplification, none of this so called unplugged crap for us, when we say unplugged, we mean it. That of course limits our opportunities, so they will, when necessary, play and sing through microphones.

Their repertoire consists of Italian, French and Spanish tunes primarily, although they do mix in a bit of Klezmer, Irish and Americana. The band can swing pretty hard in the style of the Quintet of the Hot Club of France (Django and Stephane).

They play  folk music, old pop tunes and psuedo folk and pop that we write ourselves. And they’re going to be playing on Sunday. This Sunday:

Le Nozze di Carlo will be performing
this Sunday, July 27th
starting at 3:00 pm
at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists’ Coalition
26th Annual Outdoor Sculpture Show

499 Van Brunt Street (across the street from Fairway,  just before the
pier) in Historic Red Hook, Brooklyn

Admission is free – come for the music – stay for the art –
then go shopping at Fairway and IKEA or eat at some fancy restaurant…