Roman Tales: Concerts in Rome

The Traindeville band is back on stage at the Boogie Club on Saturday, April 12, 2025, to present their new album “Racconti Romani,” inspired by a successful performance at the Ottobrata Monticiana in October 2023. Joining the band is the comedian and writer Paolo Pesce Nanna with his hilarious monologues: portraits of a city in constant evolution with all its nuances and eccentric characters that the audience will enjoy amidst original songs and evergreen hits of the Roman tradition, in a unique form of “Roman-style” theater-song. The show was first presented to the public at a delightful evening at the Aniene Festival on Ferragosto in 2024 and later to the super-authentic audience of Ottobrata Monticiana in the same year.

The duo of Ludovica Valori (vocals and accordion) and Paolo Camerini (double bass, acoustic bass), accompanied by Fabio Gammone on guitar, will take the audience on a personal journey through Roman songs: a fascinating and often tragic microcosm, rich in stories and characters that have shaped the collective identity of the Capital. The band has always explored world sounds but has never neglected to cultivate its own roots – just think of the original songs in Roman dialect composed by Ludovica Valori (a true Monticiana) including “Roma città persa,” a tribute to the Roman Resistance, and “Fatica,” a sarcastic parable of the bustling Roman daily life.

Paolo Pesce Nanna

Author, actor, writer, and comedian from Rome, Centocelle neighborhood. He has been active on the Italian scene for over twenty years. In 2022, he participated in the Italian culture week in Cuba, an experience that led to the book “Un italiano en La Habana,” recently released in Spanish and presented in Cuba in February 2025. It is a detailed diary; from the discovery and love at first sight for classical ballet, previously rejected, to the strenuous rehearsals in an unknown language, with daily misunderstandings that gave rise to unforgettable scenes, the breaking of the “fourth wall” by the theater director, initially shocking, experiencing the World Cup in a country where the national sport is baseball, the rediscovery of the old youthful passion for Cuban salsa, and then the concerts, trips to enchanted places, food, Covid, “Santería,” and friendship with a capital F.