Serendipitous Encounters of an Italian-American Kind
The shared histories of Neapolitan singer Alfredo Bascetta and political activist/film worker Gino Bardi are revealed by a Brooklyn walkabout.
This month I walked around my Williamsburg neighborhood to ask shopkeepers to hang posters advertising the Calandra Institute’s Puglia Film Festival in what ultimately felt like a game of “Six Degrees of Separation.” I stopped at a local realtor because I previously met Louis Bascetta who worked there and who had worked with my sister Annabella on the television show “Law & Order: Criminal Intent." That day his father Louis, Sr. was in and he agreed to hang the poster in the window as he did in March for the Institute’s conference on the Neapolitan song. This time Louis, Sr. asked me, “Do you know who my uncle is?” I had no idea. “Alfredo Bascetta,” was his reply.
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