(May 28) Pino Daniele makes a stop in the United States. His new tour, “La Grande Madre” (The Great Mother), will take Italian singer songwriter to New York (Apollo Theatre, June 7), Boston (Berklee Performance Center, June 9), and Washington, DC (Jazz Festival, June 10). This will his second time in the U.S., after a show in 2010 at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in Chicago, where he was invited by Eric Clapton. And in his new CD, “La grande terra”, the artist from Naples pays tribute to the great talent of Clapton with an Italian cover of “Wonderful Tonight”. All other songs are composed by Pino Daniele (with the exception of “Searching For The Water Of Life”, composed by Kathleen Hagen and written to support the charitable organization Save the Children’s “Every One” campaign). “La Grande Madre” is also the first entrepreneurial endeavor for the Neapolitan rocker, who has joined the independent label Blue Drag after: the first step as an indipendent musician after 30 years of major label music. (Cma/Peg)
