Amanda Pascali
live music at the studio
When and Where: Friday, January 22, 2027, 7:30 p.m. in the Hartley/Vey Black Box Studio Theatre
Doors Open: 7:00 p.m.
Ticket Price: General admission is $35, including fees
About Amanda Pascali
Amanda Pascali embodies the complexity of modern identity. Born to a mother from Cairo who grew up in France and an Italian father raised in Romania, she's a mixed-race, bilingual Gen Z troubadour perpetually caught between worlds. Quoting poet Ijeoma Umebinyuo, she says, “I’m often ‘too foreign for here, too foreign for home, and never enough for both.’” Rather than lamenting this displacement, Pascali has transformed it into her artistic superpower.
Amanda Pascali is a bilingual singer-songwriter and PhD student who blends folk, Americana, Latin, and southern Italian rhythms. Her music explores themes of immigration and first-generation American experiences. Pascali is known for her work revitalizing and translating Sicilian folk songs, including those of Rosa Balistreri, a working-class singer who challenged social inequality in the 1960s.
This show is located in the Hartley/Vey black box studio theatre. Please enter from 235 North Boulevard, across the street from Louisiana’s Old State Capitol.
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