Chris Bertucelli,<\/a> the La Villa deli co-owner and community leader who died at age 47 in February. His memory will be honored onstage at the 11:30 a.m. opening ceremony.<\/p>\nTHE MURALS: The walls of the Highway 87 underpass at the edge of Little Italy have provided a high-profile canvas for new artwork celebrating Italian heritage.<\/p>\n
THE FOOD: Joining the culinary teams from Little Italy\u2019s signature spots (Paesano, Henry\u2019s Hi-Life, Poor House Bistro, Italian Cellar and the Littlest Little Italy\u2019s Bibo\u2019s, Torino Panino and Ancora Vino) will be several South Bay restaurants, including Original Joe\u2019s, Sorelle, Locanda, Holy Cannoli, La Fenice Pizza, Sleight of Hand Pizza, La Copa Loca, and service groups Sons of Sicily and the Tricarico Club.<\/p>\n
THE MUSIC: Entertainment under the Little Italy arch will start with accordionist Cory Pesatauro at 12:15 p.m., followed by Italian jazz artist Vanessa Racci at 1:15. Then those two will pair up for a set at 1:45 p.m. The headliner, acclaimed tenor and San Jose resident Pasquale Esposito, will take the stage at 3:15 p.m., followed by the Anthony Nino Lane Band for a street dance party from 5:30 p.m. until the festival\u2019s close.<\/p>\n
THE CARS: In honor of Bertucelli, who was a member and supporter of the Goombahs Car Club, an array of U.S.-made vehicles will join the Supercars of Italy Showcase. The classic American cars and the masterpieces of Italian automotive design from Ferrari, Lamborghini, Enzo, Pagani and Maserati will all be parked on the Arena Green East for selfie-taking and gawking.<\/p>\n
AND MORE: Little Italy Museum tours, train rides, arts and crafts booths and specialty food vendors. When the festival ends, an after-party will begin at the Italian Cellar Speakeasy and run until 9 p.m.<\/p>\n
Details: Admission is free. Festivities are centered at the intersection of Little Italy Way and Sharks Way. More information plus parking, transit options at www.littleitalysj.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of festivalgoers will pack the streets of Little Italy San Jose on Sunday for the historic district\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,7,55485,839,421,57615,181,23,100,412,88,90,89,198,94685,200,420],"class_list":["post-483995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-evening-wire","tag-festivals","tag-food-and-drink","tag-in-case-you-missed-it","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-restaurants","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-social-alert","tag-south-bay","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}