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Shaking Rockwood November 2
Contact: Allison Scola
646-281-4324
info@villa-palagonia.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Italian Infused American Roots Band
VILLA PALAGONIA
Shakes Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 3
NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2016—Manhattan-based ensemble Villa Palagonia will perform songs from their Italian infused world-folk album “Rhythms & Roots” on Wed., Nov. 2 from 7-8 p.m., at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 3 at 185 Orchard Street, New York, New York. The cover charge is $10.
Eclectic acoustic brushed with hues from Mediterranean folk is the avenue on which the ensemble Villa Palagonia perches—yet the side streets and dusty alleyways that these musicians travel offer engaging timbres that are woven together by songs imparting tales of the old world and the new. “Rhythms & Roots” is a mix of original music performed in English and Italian alongside time-tested Sicilian folk songs.
Founded in 2013 by multifaceted guitarist Joe Ravo and multi-instrumentalist and singer Allison Scola, Villa Palagonia calls upon its core members’ southern Italian roots and American know-how to create original music peppered with elements from traditional Sicilian and Italian folk songs. Joe Ravo is a versatile guitarist who has performed alongside the likes of Dave Brubeck and Stanley Turrentine and traveled around the world as a cultural ambassador for the U.S. Department of State. Allison Scola is most familiar to folk audiences because of her performance as part of Joni Mitchell’s Blue Celebration. As a solo artist, she has released a number of recordings and performed at venues as grand as Shea Stadium, as kitschy as CBS Morning News’ Living Room Live, and as intimate as her cousin’s patio in Bagheria, Sicily where the world-renowned estate Villa Palagonia exists.
Allison’s paternal grandmother, who immigrated to New York in the 1920s, grew up in Bagheria in the shadow of Villa Palagonia. It is a place she and Joe have visited many times—and the villa itself is a site that they find intriguing and inspirational because of the remaining 72 odd and fantastic monster-statues that line the estate’s grounds. Bagheria is at the crossroads—between barons and peasants, between lemon orchards and jasmine vines, between mountains and sea, between Europe and Africa, and between ancient mysteries and modern realities. Both the historic site and the ensemble called Villa Palagonia capture a unique essence—capture a place: where north, south, east, west, and humanity collide.
Allison and Joe will be joined by Greg Maker on bass and Dave Mancuso on percussion.
For more information on this concert, please contact Allison Scola, or email info@villa-palagonia.com. To listen to samples from “Rhythms & Roots,” please visit https://villa-palagonia.com/epk/.
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