After the success of the Good Morning Tour in 2022, JOE BASTIANICH announces the first dates of his 2023 summer tour, which will see the eclectic artist hit the stages of the main venues on the peninsula, together with the Neapolitan band La Terza Classe.
The 'Joe Bastianich & la Terza Classe' project was born from Joe's boundless passion for American rock, blues, soul and folk music, which led him to an artistic partnership with La Terza Classe, one of the few Italian musical groups that since its inception has been researching and composing music inspired by American folk.
“We can't wait to start again and have as many people as possible
under the beautiful Italian stages that we will tread, once again
together. We will bring a more mature, more electric sound, but always full of references to the roots of the music we love and write”. – declare JOE BASTIANICH & THE THIRD CLASS.
The tour, organized by Barley Arts, will start on Sunday, May 14th from Grosseto and will touch several cities, lighting up the Italian summer with the iconic energy of JOE BASTIANICH and immersing the audience in the unmistakable American sounds of the folk, blues and bluegrass genres.
Below are the dates already scheduled:
- Sunday 14th May | Grosseto, Rosso Morellino | Free admission
- Thursday 22nd June | Cento (FE), Cento d'Estate | Free admission
- Saturday 15 July 2023 | Velo Veronese (VR) Lessinia Music Festival | Free admission
- Sunday 16th July | Pavullo nel Frignano (MO), Pac-Vullo | Free entrance
- Wednesday 19th July | Casatenovo (LC), Feast of Sant'Anna / via Galileo Galilei | Free admission
- Friday 21st July | Borgo a Mozzano (LU), Borgo a Mozzano Festival / Sports Field (via Lodovica) | Free admission
- Saturday 22nd July | San Paolo d'Argon (BG), Birra 'n Banda / via dei Benedettini | Free entrance
JOE BASTIANICH , born in 1968 in Queens to a family of immigrant restaurateurs of Istrian origins, is a celebrated Italian-American restaurateur who, over the years, has opened more than twenty Italian restaurants worldwide. He founded Cantina Bastianich in Cividale del Friuli and La Mozza in Maremma with his family, and has enjoyed success in television and music. After years of bringing Italian cuisine to America, following the Covid-19 pandemic, he decided to take the opposite path, bringing the most authentic and visceral part of America to Italy through food, opening Joe's American BBQ in Milan in 2021. A histrionic character, author of books (the latest published by Mondadori "Il Grande Racconto del Vino Italiano") and constantly seeking new stimuli, Joe is also a huge music enthusiast – in 2020 he released his first album Aka Joe, followed in 2022 by Good Morning Italia, written in collaboration with the band La Terza Classe, with whom Joe currently performs in Italy's main squares.
Among his most beloved appearances in Italy by the general public is certainly the one in the role of the feared judge of Masterchef but also in the most amusing ones at the table of Italia's Got Talent. Joe was recently the protagonist for Sky Arte of Good Morning Italia, a musical and food and wine story around Italy. Also in 2022 he debuted in the world of podcasting with the new series Wine Heroes, produced by Dopcast on an original subject by Banijay Italia in which he was the narrator of a journey dedicated to the heroic wines of Italy. Last season he wore the prestigious Iena suit, for Davide Parenti's program, reporting as a correspondent the emergency of war refugees in Ukraine, the world of cryptocurrencies and a fascinating journey to Peru to discover ayahuasca. In 2023 he participated, together with his friend Andrea Belfiore, in the program Pechino Express for Sky.
