I cannot believe that I have already been here for over a week. I still wake up and have to second guess before I realize where I am, and I still get all confused about the time change when I see posts...

Read what UNH’s Tuscany Campus has been up to this week in the newest installment of Postcards from Prato It is day eight already! After having our flight out of JFK delayed for almost two hours because...

Recap: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly This is my final week studying at the University of New Haven’s Prato, Italy campus, and I have to say that this experience was definitely an eye-opening one in...

Piano has to be my favorite musical instrument. I think it is the one instrument besides the voice that has a beautiful melodic quality to it, almost like a lullaby. I had never seen a solo piano performance...

Stuck in the Past One thing I have realized since I arrived in Italy in January is that they seem to have not truly modernized since the 1980s to early 1990s. This can be said in terms of everything...

I Change My Favorite Artist Like I Change My Clothes It seems as though in Italy, when a song is popular, it is the only song you hear everywhere you go. Sometimes it is hard to know whether it has...

Artist Talk with Michaela Lombardi I promised in my last article that this interview was to come. This is the first time I have done an entire article focusing on my interview with an artist, but I...

As far as I am concerned, Billie Holiday was one of the most influential and iconic female vocalists who has ever lived. In today’s music there is no real distinction between artists, but during her...

King of the Opera – ‘Nothing Outstanding’ This past week I received an email from Valentina at Radio SPIN (a local Prato college radio station). From the time I arrived in Prato I have been really...

Tiziano Ferro: Gavin Degraw meets Michael Buble This week instead of doing my normal show or album review, I wanted to take a minute and focus more on the one artist who grabbed my attention the minute...

Dee Lei: Italian Song Meets Classic Alternative Metal This week, my Italian class here in Prato took a trip to PIN (Prato’s main University). While there, we received a tour of their college radio...

Musica Jazz Presso il Teatro (Jazz Music at The Theater) Here in Prato, we spend almost every night at our favorite restaurant, Café Al’Teatro (mentioned in my last Postcards from Prato). The people...

This week in Prato, the music scene was alive at one of the best UNH Prato Campus restaurants, Cafe al’ Teatro. Not only is the food excellent and the staff friendly, but Cafe al’ Teatro boasts an...

The music scene here in Prato, Tuscany is much more prominent than I expected. During our first couple nights here, our director (Kevin Murphy) introduced us to a pub called Keller Platz. The atmosphere...