MATT PASCALE (IT)

lørdag 26. April - Kl. 14:00 - Kafé K Porsgrunn

MATT PASCALE is an Italian singer, guitarist, songwriter who loves to play electric, acoustic & slide guitar. His sound grew from the Hard Rock of his early teens into a robust and sincere love affair with American Rootsy Music, Southern Rock, swampy Blues & Funky-Neo Soul. His vocal and guitar style might resemble one of the “chitlin circuit” legendary musicians who displayed their husky voice and finger plucking chops every night of the week, but because of his urban up-bringing, young age curiosity & a truly “down & dirty” approach to his craft, he definitely sounds like no one else than himself! In spite of his young age, and a two years forced “covid confinement”, Matt managed to play more than 500 live shows since March 2019!

He was born to be on stage, & that’s where he shines best. He shined some muchdoing “his thing” night after night between Italy, Switzerland and Germany that he captured the attention of the European Blues Union’s President Davide Grandi. Grandi made an introduction to the Little Steven Blues Academy in Notodden, Norway, which is attached to the famous Notodden Blues Festival. The dead line to apply for their yearly prized scholarship was way past its limit, but his “bigger than life” stage antics & soulful delivery not only gained him the late entry invitation, but ended up landing him a slam dunk win!He so much captured the Academy team and the Festival’s board attention and sympathy, that he was offered a permanent transfer of residency and the support of local agents that have been booking him solidly in the Scandinavian territory since September 2022. Thanks once again to the European Blues Union, Matt was introduced to the Memphis Blues Foundation in January 2023, and was invited to enter a submission for the PineTop Perkins Blues Academy. Blown away by his talent the Academy granted passage to the US and a scholarship for its prestigious summer camp, which also saw another young talent graduating with honors a few years back : Christone Kingfish Ingram! 

Upon camp completion, Matt took two months to immerse himself in the American Southern, Blues and Roots environment that he so much loves and began performing in Mississippi and Tennessee with local musicians and for famous Blues Jam, including a week of all-nighters on the famous Beale Street club scene.After releasing three singles produced by Fabrizio “Fab” Grossi (Steve Vai, Billy F Gibbons, Supersonic Blues Machine, Eric Gales, Alice Cooper etc.) he signed a recording deal with French outfit DixyFrog for the release of his debut full length album “Home”. Matt is now de-facto backed by his own band The Stomps featuring Matteo Magnaterra on bass, Elia Squartini on drums and Rishi Rest Mensur on keyboards. After an intense 2024 summer playing shows and Festivals all over Europe, Matt & The Stomps locked themself up in Fab’s Los Angeles studio “Soul Garage” to complete the recording of their much anticipated album, due out in mid Spring 2025.

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