"Every Saturday since the early 1970's..."

Our café has a long-running, rich musical tradition about it. The entire Giotta family has been performing across Northern California since their arrival in this country in 1951. Eldest son Gianfranco and sister Sonia performed in talent competitions, shows, operettas, and on radio during their childhood in the 1950's along with their parents, Papa Gianni and wife Ida. Gianfranco sang professionally and pursued a musical career before deciding to settle into the family business.

The early 1960's brought the youngest and only American born member of the Giotta family--Fabio. Fabio grew-up singing and playing music and performing professionally; often with his brother Gianfranco and frequently along with the entire family. Collectively, the Giotta family has performed on concert stages such as those of: the Fairmont Hotel-SF, Davies Symphony Hall, the San Francisco Opera, Club Fugazi, Luther Burbank Center-Santa Rosa, the Masonic Auditorium-SF, Herbst Theater-SF, the Palace the Fine Arts Theater-SF, and dozens more.

Various members of the family have also performed at many major social and musical events such as art, film, and music festivals and private gala events across the bay area. One such event was a private party thrown in honor of the birthday and wedding anniversary of Luciano Pavarotti.

Papa Gianni sings traditional Italian songs and Opera along with wife Ida.  Because of eldest son Gianfranco's untimely passing in 1999, Fabio now maintains his brother's tradition with his vocal stylizations of ballads, show tunes, and standards in both Italian and English, while sister Sonia specializes in Country/Western. Fabio also plays his Petosa Millennium reedless digital accordion, as well as bass guitar and directs the band (the accordion is the official instrument of the city of San Francisco).

An expanded CD version of our Saturday Live LP along with two entirely new audiophile quality CD's are slated for release in 1999. These will also be available in audiophile/real time cassette versions. Find out more about our upcoming musical releases on our More About Our Music and Trieste Records page.

Two professional quality videos are now available: Nostalgia dei Sensi: A DOCUMENTARY and IN CONCERT: The Caffe Trieste Performers at Forest Meadows. All of these reasonably priced items are available at our retail location next door to the Caffe or by mail order. For more information, see our Trieste Records page.