Lisa began playing ukulele and piano with Lori also learning piano. That was kind of what we grew up around.” So, we all tune up and then it is perfect. We launch into the song and our Aunt Lydia, who arranged barbershop harmony as a child prodigy stopped us in the middle and said, “wait a minute, we can do a lot better than that.” Her brother said it was the most awful rendition of happy birthday ever.

He was a Renaissance man, a composer, book writer, you name it. “There are about 20 people there and we launched into singing happy birthday to great grandpa from Italy. “We have a reel-to-reel recording of our family singing happy birthday when Lisa and I were still in single digits,” Lori said.

Two more cousins are musical engineers, and their aunt was a barbershop music arranger. Their cousin, Felix Pappalardi, produced Cream and was the base player for Mountain, a band he also produced. Growing up in a musical family, the Lisa and Lori Brigantino began performing since they were small children. Lisa and Lori Brigantino will appear at Gallery 37 at 6:35 PM on July 30 during the Ladybug Festival

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