📍 ARVADA, CO – USA 🇺🇸

🗓️ Saturday, September 19, 2026
📍 Hilton Garden Inn Main Stage

Mafalda Minnozzi returns to the Rocky Mountain Archtop Festival for the main stage at the Hilton Garden Inn with scenes and songs from her life via the composers who accompanied and inspired her during her 35-year career in Brazil, Italy, and beyond. Just as in a movie, frame after frame, she presents an intimate soundtrack that can seduce the audience into becoming co-stars in the same film.

With a jazz sensibility, Mafalda taps into both her acclaimed Brazilian album “Natural Impression” and “Sensorial”, both produced and arranged by guitarist Paul Ricci whose unique fingerstyle approach to Bossa and Jazz is full of surprises.

Mafalda will present diverse selections such as Ennio Morricone’s “Metti Una Sera A Cena”, Jobim’s “Águas de Março”, Bruno Martino’s “Estate”, Django Reinhart’s “Nuages”, together with some Cole Porter and Jacques Brel, unifying the world’s great songbooks in Mafalda’s very personal improvisational styling and passionate interplay with the guitar.

Paul Ricci and Mafalda Minnozzi: Italy, Brazil, NYC

Over the past 8 years, Mafalda has come to New York alongside her guitarist and arranger Paul Ricci to become a standout on jazz radio and on the New York scene where, among other venues, they’ve played at Birdland, Mezzrow and NYU, and have recorded 4 CDs that feature John Patitucci, Don Byron, Dave Liebman, Rogerio Boccato, Helio Alves, Graham Haynes, Will Calhoun, Art Hirahara, Joe Locke and Michael Wolff, among others.

Paul has played with many noted jazz players as well as with Astrud and Bebel Gilberto, Harry Belafonte, Bobby Sanabria, Coumba Sidibe and others from the Caribbean, Latin and African melting pot, while also living in Brazil for over 20 years. As a result, the duo brings an unprecedented command to the amalgam of Bossa with classic world songbooks for a virtuosic and exciting interplay in one global jazz style.

PERFORMERS:
VOCALS: Mafalda Minnozzi
GUITAR: Paul Ricci

Venue: ROCKY MOUNTAIN ARCHTOP FESTIVAL – Hilton Garden Inn Main Stage
Address: 5455 Olde Wadsworth Blvd, Arvada, CO

Management & Booking
Marco Bisconti – MBM Management / MAMA Prod. Art
bismarco60@gmail.com
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