Season 399 - wrap
Thank you for Season 399 - Bella Italia!
We had 55 entries from 32 Seasonistas and I enjoyed hearing and seeing your entries very much. There were many highlights. To name a few - three brilliant versions of "Bella Ciao", mountain goat's (Jon's) very special collection of originals, terrific jazz covers by mep1 (Mads). There were fine duets Pa and Cha, as well as JackLuis and Gary. Wee_ginga_yin (Rob) brought several songs from different genres and styles.
I also loved the Italian dance music by BEV (Lynda), pop, rock and other modern vibes by RAB11 (Ryan), DelGriff (Del) and Desert Pavement (Andy), prog rock by uke4ia (Jim), classic melodies by crisscross (Christian) and mythinformed (Mark), evergreens and novelty songs...
As always, selecting a winner it's not easy. But Italians know, what to do - Mamma is the most important person in the family, so I asked my mamma who was visiting. She selected
AlanDP, who brought two fine songs
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Blue Moon With Heartache
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That's Amore
Congratulations, Alan! The Allegro sopranino uke from Italy will travel to Texas via Finland.
Evviva stagioni dell'ukulele! Thank you all again.
And a final video with one of my favorite Italian pop songs, with fish in Italy (Aquarium of Genoa, summer 2017) and cats in Finland (autumn 2019):