Alla Boara
- Performance
- Tickets Required
Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
Photo © Isaac Bixel
About The Event
Alla Boara is on a fast track to becoming one of Northeast Ohio’s greatest cultural exports. This ensemble seeks to bring recognition and new life to Italy's diverse history of regional folk music. The group just released a new record, and we invite you to Gartner Auditorium to celebrate this momentous occasion.
Combining historical preservation with top-notch musicianship, Alla Boara’s modern arrangements of near-extinct folk songs are variously surprising, playful, mournful, tender, and bewitching. The group’s dynamic work aims to inspire audiences of all ethnic heritages to treasure their musical roots and consider historical songs’ contemporary cultural relevance.
According to The Jambar, this immersive show combining music, storytelling, and video takes listeners on a journey that makes them forget where they are.
The vision of drummer and composer Anthony Taddeo, Alla Boara features vocalist Amanda Powell (Apollo’s Fire), guitarist Dan Bruce, trumpeter Tommy Lehman, bassist Ian Kinnaman, and accordionist and keyboardist Clay Colley. Tonight’s performance also features special guests Patrick Graney on percussion and Caitlin Hedge on violin.
More info about Alla Boara can be found on Alla Boara's website.
Tickets
$33–$45, CMA members $30–$40
Sponsors
The 2024–25 Performing Arts Series is sponsored by the Musart Society. This program is made possible in part by the Ernest L. and Louise M. Gartner Fund, the P. J. McMyler Musical Endowment Fund, and the Anton and Rose Zverina Music Fund.
The Cleveland Museum of Art is funded in part by residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.
Performing arts programs are supported in part by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts.
