A Joyful Carnevale

The AMHS was a co-sponsor of this year’s Festa di Carnevale Italiano celebration held at Casa Italiana on Sunday, February 23.

AMHS member Nancy De Santi, Director Natasha Rovo, and Treasurer Peter Bell attended as representatives of the Society. Nancy said, “It was a fun event — lots of pizza, prosecco, costumes, and fancy masks. A live Italian band played new songs and old standards like Volare (To Fly) and Tu Vuò Fà L’americano (You want to be American). There were about 200 in attendance and 95 on a waiting list. Most of the people there were Italian Americans.”

The emcee announced AMHS’s co-sponsorship of the event. Other sponsoring organizations were Casa Italiana Ente Promotore, Italians in DC, Italian-American Museum of DC, Le Dive, and the Lido Civic Club.