{"id":261891,"date":"2026-08-09T02:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T02:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261891\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T02:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T02:32:07","slug":"music-bocce-food-little-italy-days-returning-soon-to-pittsburghs-bloomfield-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261891\/","title":{"rendered":"Music, bocce &#038; food: Little Italy Days returning soon to Pittsburgh\u2019s Bloomfield neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Little Italy Days will soon return to Pittsburgh for its 26th year!<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The four-day celebration kicks off at noon Thursday, Aug. 13, in Bloomfield and goes through Sunday, Aug. 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Several city blocks will be filled with Italian food and craft vendors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Thirty live music performances will grace three different stages, and Vito from \u201cThe Sopranos\u201d will do a special Q&amp;A.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Also, Pittsburgh stars are expected to participate in the annual Celebrity Bocce Tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cCome hungry; we have plenty of Italian food vendors, celebrity bocce, three stages of live music, so come on out and enjoy yourself,\u201d event producer Sal Ricetti said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Little Italy Days will soon return to Pittsburgh for its 26th year! The four-day celebration kicks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7715,110871,110869,110872,1137,48415,110665,49259,6271,110865,110866,110867,7865,73,75,110870,110868,74],"class_list":["post-261891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-bloomfield","tag-bloomfield-italian-festival","tag-bloomfield-little-italy-days","tag-bocce","tag-festival","tag-italian","tag-italian-festival","tag-italian-food","tag-italy","tag-ittle-italy","tag-little-italy","tag-little-italy-days","tag-music","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-italian-festival","tag-pittsburgh-little-italy-days","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}