(Photo courtesy Pino Curtale) Violinist Luca Ciarla in 2015 at the Roccella Jazz Festival in Italy. He is visiting Haines and Skagway on a tour that is part of a collaboration with the Italian cultural Institute of San Francisco.
(Photo courtesy Pino Curtale) Violinist Luca Ciarla in 2015 at the Roccella Jazz Festival in Italy. He is visiting Haines and Skagway on a tour that is part of a collaboration with the Italian cultural Institute of San Francisco.

An Italian violinist is headed back to Haines for a second concert, and – he hopes – to find bears again. 

The Haines Arts Council is hosting Luca Ciarla who is touring the U.S., Panama…

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