Bolzano native Gabriele Muscolino is a singer, author, instrumentalist, composer and arranger. His renown first arrived as frontman of the progressive-folk band “Nachtcafé” with whom he recorded and performed two albums primarily in Italy, Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Muscolino plays the Irish bouzouki and studied as well guitar and piano. His musicological interests are truly eclectic: during his doctoral research he collected and published folk songs and dances from the Venetian Mountains, he published articles on radio opera and translated French and German songs into Italian – including work by Georges Brassens, Ernst Molden, Bertolt Brecht, Erich Kästner and Frank Wedekind. He writes, translates and composes for theatre and film, produced the 2014 album of Scottish singer-songwriter Oscar McLennan, and his short story “A Summer of Grace” was published in the anthology “Autobahn” (Traven-Books). His first solo album comes out in 2021 (Visage Music).