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May 18th, 2013 | Posted by joeyn | 1 Comment
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!

May 12th, 2013 | Posted by joeyn | No Comments
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

May 3rd, 2013 | Posted by joeyn | 3 Comments
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

April 26th, 2013 | Posted by joeyn | 2 Comments
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! Music! Fun! Traditions! Deana Martin And Sophia Loren Disagree On How To Make Pasta Fagioli, Sunday at 3:00.

April 18th, 2013 | Posted by joeyn | No Comments
Jim and I got together the other night and made two versions of the traditional, (some call it “peasant food”) pasta fagioli…or, as it is often pronounced in the U.S., ...

Deana Martin Interview On Ciao! April 14th and 21st

April 12th, 2013 | Posted by joeyn | No Comments
If you tuned into Ciao! last Sunday, the 7th, you heard the first two segments of our interview with Deana Martin.  Deana is just wonderful and there’s so much to ...

Buona Pasqua – Ciao! March 31 2013

March 29th, 2013 | Posted by joeyn | 2 Comments
Ciao! features contemporary and traditional Italian and Italian American music; and, this week, Jim and I will talk about some of the Italian American Easter traditions. Growing up with Italian grandparents ...

CIAO, 3/24/13: Sonny Farrar and Mario Lanza

March 22nd, 2013 | Posted by joeyn | 1 Comment
Ciao! features contemporary and traditional Italian and Italian American music; and, this week, singer/voice teacher Sonny Farrar talks about his missed opportunity to play Mario Lanza in a film about ...

Local Italian American Narrowly Misses Passage On A Doomed Liner’s Last Voyage

March 8th, 2013 | Posted by joeyn | No Comments
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 Many Other Sides of Giacomo Casanova

February 21st, 2013 | Posted by joeyn | No Comments
CIAO! will touch on the many other sides of the Venetian Giacomo Casanova in this Sunday’s show, the 24th at 3:00 pm on WCNY-FM. No one would be more surprised than ...