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Please join us on Friday, June 26th at 8:00 PM as we welcome back Italian musician Andrea Algieri for a solo concert! Plus special guest Inframezzo!

Andrea Algieri is a musician, singer, and songwriter best known as the leader of the band Mbrascatu. Through his work with the group, he has developed a distinctive style that blends Mediterranean musical roots with contemporary songwriting and energetic live performances. 

For this tour, Andrea Algieri presents a solo show featuring songs from the Mbrascatu repertoire arranged for voice and guitar. The performance offers an intimate interpretation of the band’s music, highlighting the melodies, rhythms, and stories behind the songs in a direct and engaging format.

Born from the rich, cultural heart of Southern Italy and matured in the United States, Mbrascatu (mm-brah-ska-too) is the product of Andrea Algieri and some of the west coast’s finest musicians. While the music is not locked into any one regional sound, the diverse and global influences can all be heard in how Algieri organically blends styles. Thoughtful ballads, intense rock, and infectious, danceable grooves are at the core of the band’s sonic identity - coupled with Andrea’s warm, baritone voice and soloists with backgrounds in rock, funk, jazz, classical, folk, and more, the resultant sound is something not often seen in today’s musical landscape. The heartfelt messages contained within the sensitive lyrics translate across cultural and linguistic divides, and the panoramic storytelling conveyed within each song takes the listener on a journey through both, a world they know dearly and one they are just discovering. 

Inframezzo: from the Italian definition, “elemento di interruzione del tempo”. It’s also the space between two acts of a play or musical piece connecting them. Fra, short for Francesca, also means “in between” in Italian. And Fra, divided in between two lands, is the piece connecting Inframezzo, a music collaboration with Rex John Shelverton (Tamaryn, Vue, Bellavista), Jeremy Bringetto, Rachel Hoiem and Emma Feickert.