Join us for Alla Boara's inaugural Christmas concert! Experience a delightful blend of familiar holiday tunes alongside unique Italian Christmas folk songs. These traditional melodies, documented by Alan Lomax in 1954, have been reimagined with contemporary arrangements by Alla Boara. Immerse yourself in this festive musical journey that bridges the past and present of Christmas music.

This concert is FREE! Buon Natale :)

Look HERE for more details!

This particular performance will feature premieres of new vocal arrangements crafted by Montrose Zion’s own, Joe Leaman, as well as regionally renowned arrangers Kevin Martinez and Anthony Taddeo. To complete the ensemble, Akron’s own Firestone High School will be supplying over a dozen of their most talented choir members, under the direction of Megan Meyer. 

Alla Boara seeks to bring recognition and new life to Italy’s diverse regional folk music. With modern arrangements that are surprising, playful, mournful and tender, Alla Boara’s universally touching performances will inspire listeners of any heritage to treasure their ancestral roots and to revel in our shared humanity. An afternoon of musical splendor awaits. Please join us!

TICKETS GO -> HERE

Alla Boara comes to Findley, Ohio for the first time to perform for the wildcard concert series, in this incredible theatre!

For tickets go: HERE

Alla Boara returns to Erie, PA!

“Music at Noon, the Logan Series is celebrating its thirty-third season at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. Since its inception, the series’ mission has been to demystify the concert experience by presenting the breathtaking diversity of chamber music to the Erie community. This is accomplished in part by creating an informal, welcoming environment that nurtures an unusual level of interaction between artist and audience.

When musicians participate in the Logan Series, they also develop and present residency activities for students at Erie’s Diehl Elementary School. In addition, series performers are invited to visit with our undergraduate students as guest lecturers in the general arts classrooms at Penn State Behrend.

By fostering arts education from kindergarten through college and beyond, the Logan Series occupies a distinctive niche in today’s chamber music scene.”

For more information go: HERE

The trio will perform at the Akron Summit County Public Library for their Sesquicentennial Celebration event! Learn about how the Library went from one small room in the 1870s to an entire system of 19 branches today. Also, learn the story of the North Hill Branch! Afterwards there will be a one hour performance by the trio.

We are thankful to the Akron Summit County Public Library for hosting us!

More info: HERE

We are thrilled to announce that we’ve been selected for an official juried showcase at Ohio Artists Professional Network‘s 2024 Conference in Toledo! We can’t wait to share our showcase with a community of performing artists and industry professionals. See you there! #OAPN2024

The Alla Boara trio is honored to be opening up for CGS!
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About CGS:
Formed by writer Rina Durante in 1975, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino (CGS) is regarded as Italy’s leading and longest-standing traditional music ensemble, hailing from the Salento, the heel of the Italian boot, in Puglia.

The tens of thousands who often congregate for this Lecce-based band’s concerts in Italy know: Bandleader, fiddler, and drummer Mauro Durante and company can make an audience shimmy with the energy of the ancient ritual of pizzica tarantata, said to cure the taranta spider’s bite with its frenzied trance dances. CGS shows are a life explosion: full of energy, passion, rhythm and mystery, they bring the audience from the past into modernity, and back.

Leadership of the ensemble was handed down to Durante by his acclaimed father, Daniele, in 2007. CGS has revitalized both the rousing and the introspective sides of Southern Italian song and dance. Durante continues to innovate and energize, bringing decades of experience playing with global artists (Ballake Sissoko, Ibrahim Maalouf, Piers Faccini), contemporary classical composers (Ludovico Einaudi), and pop mavericks (Stewart Copeland of The Police).

Critically acclaimed with 19 albums and countless live performances throughout USA, Canada, Europe and the Middle East, in 2010 CGS was awarded Best Italian World Music Group at Italy’s MEI confab.

More info: HERE

Back by popular demand, Alla Boara hosts an evening at the Bop Stop in which the group will take you through a tour of Italy through the wines and regions that they are from. Last time they did this it sold OUT! Get your reservations while you can.

For tickets go: HERE

For the second annual Hingetown Jazzfest Alla Boara will be playing at the prestigious Bop Stop for a special outdoor performance.

More details to come: HERE

Gigs on the Green is Downtown Cleveland’s full band, evening summer concert series on the Square. Grab your family or friends, enjoy a drink from the bar, and listen to some great high-energy bands on summer nights under the city skyline!

More info: HERE

Enjoy a perfectly Pittsburgh evening with some of our city’s top musicians in a family-friendly riverfront setting at the Highline in Pittsburgh’s South Side. There is no need to register ahead or purchase tickets—just bring some lawn chairs and come and go as you please. Every event is family and dog friendly and accessible. Make a day of it with drinks and food from Sly Fox Brewery. A perfectly Pittsburgh evening awaits. Pittsburgh City Paper is the official media sponsor of the 2024 Just Summer Series.

339 McKean Street, Pittsburgh PA 15219

Located right near the South Side riverfront bike trail

Follow parking signs for complimentary  garage parking (free for 2 hours) located underneath the Highline building.

These concerts are free of charge and open to the public, with no advanced registration required. 

For this show the quartet will be featuring Mark Miccheli on the Accordion and Piano!

More details coming soon…

THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT

For this FREE event (Sponsored by the Local 4 Music Fund) Alla Boara will be video and audio recording new arrangements of their original music with a wind ensemble and special guests! The concert will take place in the round in the BEAUTIFULLY new renovated Heights Theater in Cleveland Heights. We hope that you can be a part of this really special evening!

Spaces are limited, you can register using Eventibrite.

(Seating will be first come first serve.)

LakewoodAlive, in collaboration with Lakewood Public Library, hosts the annual Front Porch Concert Series. These concerts are held at 7 p.m. on Friday evenings from July through mid-September and are free and open to the public. Bring a lawn chair or a blanket and enjoy fantastic music with friends and neighbors in the heart of downtown Lakewood.

Ohio Regional Music Arts and Cultural Outreach (ORMACO) and the Friends of the Secrest Arboretum open their summer Music at the Arboretum concert series on Friday, May 31, 2023, with Cleveland-based Alla Boara. The ensemble reimagines Italian folk songs by adding elements of modern jazz and world music. Showcasing works from their debut album, “Le Tre Sorelle,” and newest live recorded album, they connect with their audiences through storytelling. Alla Boara’s immersive shows provide audiences with a deeper perspective on historical traditions and showcase the common humanity in us all. Each performance is unique, with music that will connect to every listener.

In the event of rain, the concert will be held at Fisher Auditorium, 1680 Madison Avenue, Wooster, OH 44691. For more information call 419-853-6016.

The program is free, but registration is recommended.

For more info go: HERE

Alla Boara is excited to be collaborating with the medieval folk group, Trobár! More info can be found on their website, HERE

About “Muckabouts” with Trobár:

Each month Trobár hosts free community-building events where all are invited to participate in merry-making, music-making, and adjacent activities! Guest instructors are frequently brought in to introduce a wide variety of subjects. No previous experience is necessary to participate, only a willingness to try something new!

Alla Boara is coming to the Hudson library as part of their world music series! The band will be promoting their new album “Work & Song”

For more information go: HERE

Alla Boara returns to Rochester, NY! The band will be debuting new material as well as promoting their second album: Work & Song

For more information and tickets go HERE

Alla Boara makes it’s debut in Pine Planes, NY! The band will be debuting new material as well as promoting their second album: Work & Song

For more information and tickets go HERE

After a wonderful debut in this space a year ago, Alla Boara returns to Erie, PA to play at this lovely intimate and beautiful gallery. More info available: HERE

Alla Boara is set to come back to Wooster, Ohio for an incredibly intimate performance at the Wayne County Historical Society’s music series, held at the historic school house! This will be a special afternoon… with a special guest!

For more information you can go HERE

(Tickets cannot be purchased online)

In this intimate and highly unique performance the Alla Boara Trio will be collaborating with the Canton Symphony to play arrangements of their tunes with members of the Canton Symphony! It’s bound to be an unforgettable evening.

For tickets and more information go: HERE

Alla Boara makes their debut in Canada at DROM Taberna! Come join us as we play two sets of music at our first International show!!

For more information go: HERE

Alla Boara makes their debut at the prestigious Club Passim in Boston, MA, continuing to tour the sophomore release, “Work & Song”

For more info and tickets go: HERE

Alla Boara <3’s PGH!

Come join us in one of the most beautiful venues in PGH, this time with the full band as they tour, promoting their new LIVE album Work & Song.

For tickets and info go: HERE

The full band comes back to the GAR Hall! This incredible venue always has all of the right ingredients for a special evening.

For more info and tickets go: HERE

Alla Boara is excited to be touring their second album by returning to the prestigious Kerrytown Concert House! The band is returning with guest Gabe Bolkosky (Oblivion Project) on violin! (more on Gabriel Below,

More information and tickets: HERE

Gabriel Bolkosky has performed and taught across the United States and abroad. He performs a diverse repertoire of classical and contemporary works, collaborating with different artists from many genres of music making.  Over the last decade, Gabe has founded and directed the music festival, PhoenixPhest with the intent of creating an environment open to all levels and ages of musicians, creating a more holistic musical experience without sacrificing quality.

Gabe’s performances have focused in the areas of contemporary music, jazz and tango as well as traditional classical music.   He has collaborated with many composers, among them Fredric Rzewski, William Bolcom, John Harbison, Thomas Ades, Bright Sheng, William Albright, Andrew Kirshner, Lars Holmer, Carter Pann, Michael Daugherty, George Tsontakis, Derek Bermel, and Bernard Rands.

As a jazz and tango musician, Gabe has worked with great artists such as John Lindberg, Peter Soave, Tad Weed, Ed Sarath, Chris Howes, Andy Bishop, and is a founding member of The Oblivion Project.

A native of Detroit, Michigan, Gabe began his violin studies at age three. His primary teachers were Michael Avsharian of Ann Arbor, Paul Kantor at the University of Michigan, and Donald Weilerstein at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Gabe earned a bachelor’s degree in violin performance and a master’s degree in chamber music, as well as studying improvisation at the master’s level, at the University of Michigan. At the Cleveland Institute he earned a Professional Studies degree, served a year as Professor Weilerstein’s teaching assistant and won the school’s prestigious Darius Milhaud prize. He attended the Aspen Music Festival from 1991–98 on fellowship, first playing with the Aspen Chamber Symphony and then the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble for four years. During those four years he premiered hundreds of new works, and with his group, Non Sequitur, conducted workshops and concerts for thousands of students in the Aspen valley as well as at schools such as Harvard, Dartmouth, Brandeis and Princeton.

Gabe has released seven CDs that show his breadth as a musician. His debut solo album, This and That, features classical and jazz music. Other albums include The Shape of Klez to Come with the klezmer group Into the Freylakh; The Orchestra Is Here to Play, a live recording teaming the Gemini children’s-music group with a full orchestra; The Oblivion Project Live, showcasing the music of Astor Piazzolla; Non Sequitur, contemporary and experimental music, including one of his own compositions; Home from Work, an eclectic mix of jazz, folk and blues in collaboration with San Slomovits, and as sideman on John Lindberg’s recording Two by Five.

His most recent CD is Bonne Nuit, which includes the Debussy Sonata and other small works for violin and piano with Michele Cooker, and can be found here.

Gabe was guest artist at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor teaching violin and chamber music for six years.  He has worked with all ages of young musicians in most of the 50 states and parts of Asia.  He is the director and owner of Education For Happiness and violist and founding member of The Bayberry String Quartet.

The Alla Boara trio makes an appearance at the First Lutheran Church in Lorain, OH. This show will showcase many of the songs of Alla Boara, but in an intimate trio format, featuring: Amanda Powell, Anthony Taddeo and Dan Bruce.

Due to problems with the church’s website, tickets will only be available at the door.

For more information go: HERE

We are beyond excited to announce that we will be debuting our sophomore release as a band at the Cleveland Museum of Art! This album is the culmination of two magical nights of music that was recorded LIVE at the Bop Stop. Come celebrate with us! Featuring special guests: Caitlin Hedge on violin and Patrick Graney on percussion.

For tickets and more info go HERE