Night of Italian Music, Dance and Food

Night of Italian Music, Dance and Food
The Corning-Painted Post Historical Society and The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes invite the public for a night of Italian folk music, dance and food on Saturday, October 18, 7 PM to 10 PM at the Marconi Social Club, 26 West Pulteney Street Corning, NY.


We’ll be partying Italian style! The Sgro Brothers who have played in venues as diverse as the Ed Sullivan Show and the White House will provide the music. Most recently, they performed at the Dean Martin Festival with Martin’s daughter, Deana. The Sgro Brothers play a wide repertoire of tunes including jazz, classical and popular music as well as folk songs learned from their father.


We’ll learn the Tarantella from Genevieve Tarantelli and the Dancing Grannies! Genny learned the folk dances of Italy from her family. Her mother said that Genny could dance before she could walk. She will teach us the Tarantella, a dance that mimics the actions of someone suffering from a Tarantula bite and then stomping the spider to death!

It’s good that we’ll be dancing because we’ll also be eating and drinking!
Sorge’s Restaurant will provide an Italian food tasting including pasta dishes and desserts. The cash bar at the Marconi Social Club will also be open. Tickets go on sale Monday, October 6 and are $10 per person, or $15 for two people when purchased in advance from the CPPHS, The ARTS, Sorge’s Restaurant or the Marconi Social Club. Tickets are also available at the door for $15 per individual or $20 per couple.

This is a program of Lace, the Spaces Between: Domestic Lace Making and the Social Fabric of the Italian American Community in Corning located at the Benjamin Patterson Inn Museum. This event is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Additional contributions were provided by The Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes, Inc., Corning Incorporated, LaVere Media, Sorge’s Restaurant and the TRIAD Foundation.

For more information contact:


Corning-Painted Post Historical Society

(607) 937-5281 or email corningpaintedposthistsoc@verizon.net