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Padovano "coffeehouse performer" album release

Jersey-Shore singer-songwriter's new 20 track CD featuring songs from his "poesia and chanson" show.

John "Giovanni" Padovano
John "Giovanni" Padovano

Singer/composer John "Giovanni" Padovano has a new album of all original songs titled "The Coffeehouse Performer archive volume 3 “poesia and chanson”" that will be released this spring. This CD will be available at his live performances and at other outlets to be announced.

Padovano is also known as The Ironbound Crooner. His music is strongly influenced by his very early years in the Ironbound Section, a neighborhood in Newark, NJ. A book, written by Reed Ueda Ph. D, titled “America’s Changing Neighborhoods - An Exploration of Diversity through Places” includes The Ironbound as one of its neighborhoods, and the book mentions the singer-songwriter John Padovano as part of the "popular culture" that came from The Ironbound . He has performed concerts at the Van Buren Branch Library that is located in The Ironbound.

His live show is based on a solo repertoire of his original music that he calls “poesia and chanson”. “This song collection captures what my live shows are about,” the musician said, “I perform to share peace and comfort.” In the 1970's, along the Jersey Shore, he started performing his songs at live music venues. Although “The Coffeehouse Performer” appears mostly at coffeehouses, he has performed at many libraries, and at Arts Centers, wineries, cafes, and he has performed solo shows at Princeton University.

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