Posts Tagged ‘Jimmy Battaglia’
Ciao! on WCNY FM – Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 3:00: My grandmother, Amalia Fortino Immediato, my mother’s mother, loved to tell stories especially about the “old country” where she ...
Ciao! Music…Fun…Traditions… And Festa Della Mamma!
Sunday Afternoon, 5.12.2013 at 3:00: During their first PBS Special “Il Volo,” the Italian teen aged tenors who have taken the world by storm, introduced a beloved Italian song this ...
Ciao! Music…Fun…Traditions…And Unspoiled Beauty Of The Mountains And Seas Of Calabria
Sunday Afternoon, 5.5.2013 at 3:00: I have heard and read so much about the unspoiled beauty of the rugged mountains and pristine seas of Calabria that we have added this ...
Ciao! Music…Fun… Traditions…and Spotlight On Old Syracuse Neighborhoods
Sunday afternoon at 3:00 – 4.28.13: Last week when we left the new facilities of WCNY on Wyoming St., Jim took me around the block to Marcellus St. where he ...
CIAO! March 17 2013 St. Joseph & St. Patrick Celebrations
CIAO! features the best in Italian and Italian American music and, this week, highlights of Italian American celebrations commemorating St. Joseph’s Day held by organizations like the American Italian Heritage ...
Local Italian American Narrowly Misses Passage On A Doomed Liner’s Last Voyage
CIAO! features the best in Italian and Italian American music… and this week, our good friend Al Fabrizi is sitting in with me for my co-host Jim Battaglia. One thing ...
The Lure of Venice in Centuries Past
When I was researching our topic on Venetian masks for last week’s show, I became intrigued by the many references to Venice as the playground of the rich going back ...
Iconic “Spaghetti Scene” & The Climb To Taormina, Sicily
“Lady and the Tramp” which was released by Walt Disney in 1955 is still considered one of the most charming films Disney ever made. And the “spaghetti scene” as it’s ...
Celebrating An Italian 12th Day Of Christmas
Connie Rotella’s Struffuli is a perfect treat for the 12th and last day of the Christmas season for Italians who celebrate every occasion with wonderful food feasts including specialty dishes ...
CIAO, 12/30/12: The Legend of La Befana
La Festa dell’Epifania on January 6th, the feast of the Epiphany observed by Christians when the Three Wise Men arrived bearing gifts to the newly born Christ child, is a ...










