{"id":168417,"date":"2026-03-19T18:23:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/168417\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T18:23:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:23:36","slug":"evening-of-entertainment-at-ica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/168417\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Of Entertainment At ICA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past Saturday evening, March 14, the Italian Charities of America (ICA), located on Queens Boulevard in Elmhurst, sponsored for the community a free evening of entertainment from the singer Amanda Pascali and her back-up duo of musicians.\u00a0 They played to a packed house of enthusiastic and appreciative listeners.<\/p>\n<p>Photos by Walter Karling<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-193601 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1-AMANDA-PASCALI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1545\" height=\"1999\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-193605 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2-DSC_6475-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1464\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-193609 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3-DSC_6434-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2439\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-193613 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4-DSC_6471-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1703\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-193617 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/5-DSC_6458-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1689\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-193621 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6-DSC_6504-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2015\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-193625 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/7-DSC_6550-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1928\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The flyer with Amanda Pascali\u2019s bio which was distributed advertising the free concert.<\/p>\n<p>Bird\u2019s-eye view of the event.<\/p>\n<p>A very spirited performance.<\/p>\n<p>Attentive audience members.<\/p>\n<p>At evening\u2019s conclusion a group photo commemorating the performance with ICA sponsors and the performers:\u00a0 (L. to r.):\u00a0 Dr. Alan Hartman, ICA Vice-President;\u00a0\u00a0 Anthony Lofaso (\u201cLofaso\u201d), ICA Treasurer;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Josephine Manzella, ICA Board Chair;\u00a0\u00a0 Domenic Giampino, ICA President;\u00a0\u00a0 and the featured performing artist Amanda Pascali with her back-up musicians Addison Freeman (violin\/mandolin) and Gabriele Bazza (guitar\/frame drum).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This past Saturday evening, March 14, the Italian Charities of America (ICA), located on Queens Boulevard in Elmhurst,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-168417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}