Joseph Luzzi reflects beautifully on what was lost when his immigrant father died, taking with him the dialect of his native Calabria. Excerpt: After his death, I would hear my father’s voice but didn ...

NORTH ADAMS — When writing his latest album, folk singer-songwriter Peppe Voltarelli put his home at the heart of it. Voltarelli composed songs in the Calabrian dialect — a subset of Italian, and the ...