| Subject: | [RESOGUIT-L] Matt Nozzolio | | Date: | Monday, August 11, 2008 15:40:28 (-0400) | | From: | Rod Trail <rtrail1245 @.......com>
|
The following just came from our local Blues preservation Society about Matt's
passing.-----------
Hello Blues Family, FAR too many losses over the past few weeks. This one hits
us straight in the gut. Matthew Anthony Nozzolio, of Middletown CT, died
unexpectedly Saturday August 2, in New Haven. He was 53. He was the husband of
Jean A. Wertz. Matt, who was the official spokesman for the MDC, in Hartford, had
a career in newspapers as a reporter and editor. He was also a noted musician,
performing bluegrass, Blues and folk music. Matt played the Dobro, or resophonic
guitar, performing solo as well as with a variety of bluegrass and folk bands. He
also performed his own compositions. In the 1990s, Matt toured Europe as a member
of Amy Gallatin and Stillwaters. He also performed with Allan Harris and the
Cross That River Band, of New York City, the New England bands Charter Oak
Bluegrass and The Bristol Boys, and was a frequent guest musician with The
Remnants and Horizon Blue. He was a member of the Metropolitan Transit
Authority’s Music Under New York program, for subway musicians, and performed in
Connecticut for entertainment programs at Derby Hospital and Meriden’s MidState
Medical Center.In 2007, Matt took 3rd place in the 21st Annual PBPS Blues
Challenge, in Greensboro, N.C. As a journalist, Nozzolio was a bureau chief for
the New Haven Register, city editor for The Evening Press, in Binghamton, N.Y.,
and bureau chief for the Finger Lakes Times, in New York. He also worked in
communications for United Technologies. We at the PBPS got to know Matt very well
during the PBPSBC last year. Not only a SUPER talented musician, Matt was as nice
a person as one could meet. We became very good friends within just one weekend.
Our sympathies go to Family, Friends and Associates. RIP Matt,T. Case Hazelman,
PresidentPiedmont Blues Preservation Society
_________________________________________________________________
Get more from your digital life. Find out how.
http://www.windowslive.com/default.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Home2_082008
|
Matt Nozzolio
Reply to this message