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     WE THREE         

We Three is pleased entertain the fabulous audience in Uniontown, PA on August 28 and 29, 2010.
The music of WE THREE reflects a heritage that is Festive, Romantic, Heartwarming, and
Passionate. Their mission is to capture and translate into song the enjoyment of life, family,
friends, wine, and food. The artistry of WE THREE stretches from the composition of their
music to the passion and technical execution of their performance, to the advancements and
implementation of state of the art technology. On Saturday and Sunday, August 28 and 29 you
will hear WE THREE along with Vito DiSalvo and newest member soprano Daniela Pasquini.
Under the leadership of Vito DiSalvo, WE THREE has been one of the most sought after and
recognized dance bands in the Mid-Atlantic region. In their forty-five years WE THREE has
performed at thousands of corporate functions, festivals, weddings, dinner dances, and private
parties throughout the Eastern and Mid-Western United States.
In addition to their live performances, WE THREE has become one of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s
most recorded groups having eight Italian albums, one all American Dance Music album We Can
Dance, and one DVD, Matt Morgan in Concert with Vito DiSalvo and We Three to their credit.
Their music can be heard on radio stations from San Gabriel and Los Angeles, California; to
Chicago, Illinois; Warren, Ohio; Pittsburgh, Easton, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Norwich
and Binghamton, New York. National restaurant chains such as Buca Di Beppo, The Olive
Garden and Macaroni Grill also feature WE THREE recordings. Vito DiSalvo’s original music
recorded by WE THREE have been performed on the HBO American television drama series “The
Sopranos” staring James Gandolfini, on USA national and regional commercials, on promotional
videos and documentary films and on the soon to be released (August 13, 2010) international
motion picture EAT PRAY LOVE, starting Julia Roberts, Javier Bardem, James Franco and Billy
Crudup, directed by Ryan Murphy and co-produced by Brad Pitt.
All WE THREE recordings are available on compact disc (CD). To sample the music of WE
THREE, visit our website at www.mhmproductions.biz. WE THREE recordings are available for
purchase online at www.mhmproductions.biz/store.html or other digital download websites such
as iTunes, rhapsody.com, cd.com, amazon.com, etc. They can also be ordered by calling MHM
Productions LLC toll free number at 1-800-733-4838. You can also purchase their recordings at
the Uniontown Festival.

DR. ZOOT:

At first it was just a steady weekday gig in 1998 at a small swing club in Pittsburgh's south side, just a side project. All the musicians had good weekend work in other bands. But the band grew in popularity and soon they were packin' em in. The crowd listened to Dr Zoot but Dr Zoot also listened to the crowd and were exposed to new influences. The dancers and musicians came every week, it became a scene. Sal began writing originals for the band and encouraged the other musicians to write horn charts or chord changes and bring them to rehearsal. Ideas flowed freely, and the new songs and arrangements were really happening. It became everybody's main band. Week after week the band rehearsed, wrote and gigged.

Then it was time to record.

By the time Dr Zoot's first CD "Ghosts of Swing" was released they were playing the city's largest rooms nearly every night of the week. It seemed time to take the show on the road. Dr Zoot began playing some out of town shows. At first Harrisburg and Hershey and then Philadelphia. They were very well received in these markets. Their music caught the ear of someone at Slimstyle Records and a Dr Zoot song called "Jump Jive and Shake" was placed on the very successful compilation CD "Swing This Baby vol. 2". This opened up more doors for the band including gigs in New Jersey, Washington DC, and eventually to Los Angles and New York City.

Dr Zoot's second CD "Ragtop" is a crisply recorded romp of original swing music. It features 13 originals as well as a couple covers and displays an added depth to their music. The band continued to grow. In 2001 the band recorded its third full length CD "Housecall" its most mature record to date. Dr Zoot branched out into Latin, blues and jazz while never forgetting the dancers.

2003 marked the release of Dr Zoot's fourth full length CD "Retrohop". On this CD features special guest vocalists and plenty of Swing , Blues , Latin and even a touch of Hip Hop. Now in 2004 Dr Zoot releases its first live CD. Live at Swing City. This CD features many classic swing tunes as well as some live versions of Zoot originals.

The band knocks em dead regularly from the Showboat Casino in Atlantic City NJ to Jimmy Buffets Margaritaville in Key west FL and fine clubs and venues in between.

  ORO PURO

                   

Howard Mincone
Take a physical comedian, a juggler, and a very personable entertainer, with what seems
to be boundless energy, as well as an emcee with a lightning-fast wit, mix them all
together and what do you have ?
The very funny and amazing… Howard Mincone !
Howard first started in showbiz as a professional break-dancer in the early eighties.
Strongly influenced by comic legends Harpo Marx, Jackie Gleason, Red Skelton, Dick
Van Dyke and John Ritter. Howard’s performances combine movement, comic mime,
stand up comedy, and juggling. With his very unusual and hilarious performance,
Howard has become one of the most popular entertainers for fairs, festivals, variety
shows, corporations and special events across North America. In March, 2010, Howard
returned from a successful run at the world famous Magic Castle in Hollywood, CA.
After twenty years in the entertainment business Howard Mincone has worked with many
world class variety performers from world champion magicians & ventriloquist to
nationally recognized comedians and jugglers from around the globe.

        

EGIDIO “JIMMY” FAIELLA

Egidio Faiella offers you the truly beautiful sounds of Italian and Italian-
American music as only performed on the mandolin...In the 21st Century,
the long forgotten sounds of the mandolin are still very much alive & well in
the Faiella family!
Those who have heard him play know that he surely plays from the heart!
Egidio was born and raised in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania in the United States
of America. This American-Italian mandolinista only knows of Old World
Italy through his childhood memories of visiting his grandparents. Although
he's never been to Italy, he vividly remembers beautiful Italian melodies
from his childhood days... when he was a little boy, he actually thought
everyone's grandpa played the mandolin! Young Egidio was captured by the
beautiful sounds of the mandolin and fell deeply in love with the music he
heard because music was surely in his blood!
To Egidio, nothing remotely compares to the feelings he experiences when
he plays his mandolin... “I close my eyes and feel like a little boy again all
over again... It's the GREATEST feeling!"
Be sure to see Egidio on Saturday and Sunday at the Uniontown Festival.
Pick up a recording or two.

The Fabulous Frankie Capri

Singing and playing guitar, piano, accordion and kazoo, backed by two ventriloquist dummies, a life-size plastic Snow White dwarf and countless wind-up musical monkeys, an adept Elvis impersonator, Frankie can sing in any style from Dean Martin to the Bee Gees  Complimented on his talent, Capri modestly replies, "God made the pizza. I just deliver it."  (Writer unknown)

 

JOHN BIGANTE  with PAUL CALISE

Back to entertain and delight the crowd in Uniontown with traditional
favorites is Italian vocalist, John Bigante with accordionist Paul Calise.
John Bigante can entertain a crowd with the songs that he learned as a
young man in Abruzzo, Italy. John originally left his hometown of
Gamberale at the age of twenty to pursue a career in the food service
industry. Discovered while Vito DiSalvo, leader of WE THREE, was
performing as a strolling musician at D’Imperio’s Restaurant in
Monroeville, PA, John has since appeared as a featured vocalist for many of
WE THREE’s live performances. In July 1995, MHM Productions LLC
released John Bigante’s first solo album, Champagne. This album, coproduced
by Vito DiSalvo and Nick Gimiliano, features John Bigante’s
vocals along with the musical accompaniment of WE THREE. His second
album Successi Napoletani, The Best of Naples features many of the
Neapolitan favorites, produced by Vito DiSalvo.
Paul Calise, an accomplished accordionist who plays a wide variety of
romantic and energetic music, accompanies John Bigante. Paul was the
heart of I Campagoli, the renown Italian folk music and dance troupe begun
by Jane Ferro over 30 years ago.

JIMMY KRENN

Jimmy Krenn rose from the ranks of stand-up comedians to become Pittsburgh’s premier comedian and broadcast personality. Voted five times as one of the Top Entertainers in the City by Pittsburgh Magazine, Jimmy is recognized throughout Western Pennsylvania as the host of Pittsburgh’s top-rated morning show on 102.5 WDVE-FM. He also makes frequent television appearances and does several Standing Room only concert performances every year.

BILLBOARD Magazine nominated Jimmy as one of the Major market personalities of the Year. Jimmy has performed with Jay Leno, Howie Mandel, Dennis Miller, Jerry Seinfeld, Richard Lewis, Gilbert Gottfried, Tim Allen and many other nationally known celebrities.

Jimmy’s act features a variety of impressions, characters, and anecdotes, helping to make him the area’s most popular and beloved performer.

The CHRIS HIGBEE Project

When’s the last time you heard a high-energy lead singer blow you away on the fiddle? If your answer is
Charlie Daniels, great! . . . Then you definitely need to see the one and only Chris Higbee in concert!
Higbee grew up a farm boy with a musical curiosity and a diligent mother and father. That curiosity quickly became
a passion that drove his dreams. “Fiddles Rock,” the first track on Higbee’s new album, tells that story
and was inspired by his late father. It was co-written with Higbee’s producer Tommy Harden and Don Rollins
(“It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere”)
Higbee founded the PovertyNeck Hillbillies (PNH) in 2000, delivering uniquely wild and energetic concerts
across the country on stages, rooftops, and anything else Higbee could fathom a way to play from! PNH performed
for seven years before disbanding, acquiring an international fan base, distributing two records and
releasing a No. 2 nationally rated video, “Mr. Right Now,” starring “Big Ben” Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh
Steelers.
For the last five months, Higbee has been working diligently on his new album in Nashville, recording the kind
of music that reflects his energy and enthusiasm! After co-writing five tracks on the album, Chris is anxious
to deliver it to his fans. Other writers on the record include Brett James, Ashley Gorley, Wade Kirby and Paul
Overstreet.
Two of those tracks, (“Write to Me” and “You’re Still Gone”) are about Higbee’s wife, Sergeant Melissa Higbee.
Melissa spent several deployments away from home (including Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi
Freedom), and as the story is told in “You’re Still Gone,” one of those deployments happened immediately
after their marriage. She is now serving as a Senior Drill Sergeant in the US Army. Higbee’s patriotism is
always appreciated by his fans at every show, because they can relate to it in this time of war.
Along with his writing and the new album, Higbee keeps busy playing more than 150 shows per year! Fully
equipped with production and a tour bus, he delivers a killer show and makes new fans wherever he plays.
With his presence and charisma on stage, he makes a personal impact on his fans and they return it faithfully.
He wows audiences by climbing light trusses, fiddling out in the audience, and his stage show and vocals put
an energy that people love no matter where he is!
“When I was a boy, all I ever wanted was to sport a fancy coat, pick and sing. . . I put a fiddle in my hand and
started a band” . . .
“That pretty much sums up what I want to do with my life,” Higbee says. . . “I just wanted to keep ‘Living The
Dream.’”

  Frank Gallo Band

The Frank Gallo Band has been on the musical scene for 40 years.  Frank plays trumpet, M trombone and does vocals and comedy routines.  His music has always been noted for its versatility and blend of American and Italian songs.  The Band is also known for its presentation of ballroom and swing music.  Frank has appeared with the likes of Dick Contino, The Gaylords, Four Aces, Carmen Canavo, Al Martino and Jerry Vale.

MARY FERRO , Tarantella Instructor      

Mary Ferro has been involved in Italian folklore since the age of 7.
She is the daughter of the late great director of "I Campagnoli" Jane
Ferro and "I Campagnoli " member Leonard Ferro.
Mary was a member of the original " I Piccoli Campagnoli," then
became assistant director of the adult group and then upon Jane's
passing became vocal director of " I Campagnoli."
Mary is a graduate of Duquesne University's School of Music where
she received a degree in Music Education.
She was also a former student of the world renown , the late
Professor Lorenzo Malfatti.
Mary is a professional pianist as well as vocalist.
She has studied Italian folklore in the United States as well as in
Italy.
Come and learn how to Tarantella on Saturday, August 28, 2010 in
the afternoon near the courtyard stage and from 5:00 PM -5:30 PM
near the main stage.

          Donnie Iris    

The Story
Donnie learned how to sing from his Mother and then from Tony Bennett and Marvin Gaye. In 1970, as a member of the Jaggerz, Donnie earned a gold record for writing and singing the No. 1 song “The Rapper.”

Donnie Iris is generally considered to be the best screamer in rock and roll. He is now an elder statesman of rock and roll. No young singer has yet upstaged him; no one ever will. Donnie is the real deal, both as a man and as a singer. He is a simple guy who wears a smile and loves his friends and his family. Life is better when Donnie is around. Here’s hoping that he’s around for a long time to come.

If you’ve never been to a Donnie Iris and the Cruisers concert, what are you waiting for?