The Festival featured four cultural groups found in the Mohawk Valley...Native American, Italian, Bosnian, and African.
La Banda Rossa represented Utica's Italian Heritage.
We demonstrated our procession formation as we entered the room then sat down for a concert of our Italian music. 
Our audience consisted of Bosnian musicians, Iroquois craftsmen along with a tankful of Goldfish and Hank the Snake in the nature room
(the exhibits at the Children's Museum are wonderful).
WKTV sent a camera and we were on the Sunday morning newscast.
Drummer Dan William's wife and daughter joined in the fun and made Haudenosaunee headresses, and clarinetist Patricia Iagnocco created a "No-Face" Cornhusk Doll with Oneida Nation member Birdy Burdick.And rumor has it that shortly after this photo was taken and
the photographer had left the room - our Professoressa Arlene Iagnocco learned and performed a traditional Bosnian Folk Dance accompanied by the MAH Bosnian Band - only in Utica!VIVA LA BANDA ROSSA!
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