Concert of Colors brings free Italian-American heritage celebration to Clinton Township

All right. Welcome back, everybody. You ready? We have got a beautiful performance for you. Stand by, though. First, let me tell you what this is all about. It's Italian month. It is October is Italian American Heritage Month. And this weekend, the Music and Culture Center stage in Macomb County. Here to tell us about it is Lisa Bica Gradsky with NOI, which I think I need to get in on this organization and celebrate my heritage and concert of colors. So introduce us to who's joining us, Lisa. Yeah, absolutely. To my left is Cliff Monier and he is with the Maestro Ramo or Michele Ramo. Michele Ramo. All right. Now let's talk about this concert and then we'll talk more about this celebration of the culture. So when is this happening? Sure. So this Saturday, it's a free concert at the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts in Clinton Township, Macomb County, and the NOI Foundation is the Nuovi Orizzonti Italiani, New Italian Horizons, and we are all about the Italian language. We work closely with the Italian consulate here in Detroit, and we are partnering with the Concert of Colors to put on this neighborhood program, and tickets are absolutely free at the Macomb County or the Macomb Community performing arts center box office or you can get them online okay so it's a concert to celebrate Italian American Heritage Month yes and also to recognize your organization which focuses on on language and teaching the language and spreading this beautiful language to more people right absolutely we really focus on students in the K through 12 schools oh dang yeah but we also i aged out well and then we inch up to college so you know it's never too late to go back quite there yet okay trust me okay and then we also um are uh focusing on some adult programming soon so there you go the NOI foundation if you're interested in um you know hosting these uh these classes or actually learning it's uh one of our dear uh former co-workers who has passed Bill Gallagher he was passionate about studying the Italian language He loved it so much, and I went to a class with him because it is so good for your brain to study another language. All right, sir, what are we playing here? What are we going to perform? We're going to perform a polka, which is an original song I wrote for the Italian community. Yes. Now, where are you from? I'm from Sicily. Oh. Born and raised there. Now, if you're a Sicilian, you call yourself Sicilian, right, instead of Italian? That's what I'm starting to understand. Actually, I found out that Sicilian is not a dialect, it's a language. It's a whole different ballgame down there. It comes from Latin. All right, I'm going to get out of here because we want to hear the performance and tell everybody again, it is happening Saturday, October 24th, McCombs Center for the Performing Arts. Very good. All right, take it away fellas.