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La Tosca is a little orchestra, the kind you could find in a Parisian Café Chantant in 1928. It is a unique historical and geographical fusion as the musicians have different musical backgrounds such as Italian, French, Polish, and American. La Tosca wants to tell the story of the places, the people, their imagination, expectations, dreams and disillusions through songs that belong to a collective memory and represent an irreplaceable testimony of a passionate past of great European music combined with the rhythms of the Americas.
The band takes you on a journey through the Italian musical heritage of 100 years of repertoire corresponding to the biggest wave of the European Migration to the Americas (1820-1920). The traditional music of Naples and Sicily meets the Swing rhythm of Django in Paris, and brings you to the roaring atmosphere of the early American jazz. Polkas and Mazurkas will take you south to Argentina where the fusion of Sicilian music and Native Argentinian Rhythms gave birth to sensual Tangoes and Milongas.
Voice, accordion, violin, mandolin, bass and serenading guitars will create a passionate romance under the light of the candles of timeless melodies.
The band was awarded “best cocktail band” in 2017 by the Best of Chicago Magazine and has released a live album called “Prima Vera” in 2019. La Tosca has been collaborating with most of the Italian institutions of the city ; The Green Mill, Navy Pier, Thalia Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music, Candlelight Concert Series, Harris Theatre, Hungry Brain, the Honky Tonk, different festivals and several events promoted by the city of Chicago.
