The summer of JOE BASTIANICH & THE THIRD CLASS will start with the release of their first jointly recorded album next June, preceded a few weeks earlier by a single, and then continuing with a long tour that will touch the entire peninsula throughout the summer. "The Restaurant Man" and the Neapolitan band are ready to make people dance with a torrid and powerful bluegrass concert.
These are the first dates on the calendar of the tour curated by Barley Arts, continuously updated:
Sat 2 July 2022 - RIOLUNATO (MO) - LunaRio Fest
Fri 8 July 2022 - ROVIGO - Delta Blues Festival
Sat 9 July 2022 - PISTOIA - Pistoia Blues - Opening for Gov't Mule
Sun 10 July 2022 - CERVASCA (CN) - Cervasca Festival
Fri 5 August 2022 - SENIGALLIA (AN) - Summer Jamboree Festival
Sat 6 August 2022 - CALAMBRONE (PI) - Eliopoli Summer Fest
JOE BASTIANICH & THE THIRD CLASS
The project is the result of a meeting between the "Restaurant Man" and La Terza Classe, which he met during the "On the road" programme made for Sky Arte in 2013 and hosted by Bastianich himself.
Joe's great passion for American rock, blues, soul and folk music and the immediate empathy that was created gave rise to a collaboration between him and the Neapolitan band, one of the few Italian musical entities that has been researching and composing music inspired by American folk music since its inception.
The artistic partnership between the two projects becomes concrete in 2021 thanks to the collaboration with the booking agency Barley Arts, which organizes a summer tour and a winter tour around the boot in some of the most important Italian venues and the realization, in December 2021, of a single, "This good man", written by Joe and arranged in bluegrass version by La Terza Classe;
This Good Man is also a video, recorded live in the studio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN1NJzyPw_I
Now, after weeks spent in the studio writing and arranging new tracks, Joe Bastianich & La Terza Classe's first unreleased album, produced by Soundinside Records, is scheduled for release in the summer of 2022.
