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Holiday, Il Volo

Merry Christmas from all of us!!!!!!!

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The Board of Il Volo Flight Crew~Share the Love, send all of you the warmest  wishes for health, happiness and love on this Christmas Day!

Marie sends this wish:

“Thank you so much for sharing this time with us.  Wishing you the joy of the season and the love of family and friends.  ~Marie”

Michele sends this:

Dear Il Volo Flight Crew,
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When we created this blog in August 2013, just a few short months ago, who would have known we would have so many new friends, from all over the world, to share our love of beautiful music with, Il Volo’s music! I am so happy we have found each other! Thank you all for your contributions! Thank you Ignazio, Gianluca and Piero for sharing your beautiful voices with us!
Merry Christmas!
Michele
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From Elaine:
 “Dear Gianluca, Piero, Ignazio, and fellow Flight Crew, thinking of you on this Christmas day.  May joy and peace be with you always.  Buon Natale to all of you and your love ones. “
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From all of us,  Marie, Michele, Linda , Elaine and Kelly, Merry Christmas to all of “The Crew” Thank-you for sharing parts of your lives with us.  Our common thread has been the Love of Il Volo and it became loving each other too!!
Kelly
Michele
Linda
Marie
Elaine
Holiday

One Soul with Love For the Holidays

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spirit of christmas love

“Christmas Gift Suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, [good] service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.” ~~ Oren Arnold

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Hey, Everyone!
Has this holiday come up on all of you as fast as it has on me?  I’m usually a little bit behind, but this year, it’s ridiculous!  When I tell you that your Christmas card is in the mail, I’m totally telling the truth.

But I digress.

In looking for a little inspiration for this piece (I don’t ever seem to have an abundance of it at the time I need it…), I took a break from the craziness, ignored Marie’s plea to stop listening to Buon Natale until she can find her car in all the snow (I might be in a little bit of trouble for that…) and surrounded myself with the guys and their three voices but one soul.

I thought of the recent Yahoo interview when they tried to explain what they meant by that and how that feels when they are on stage.  They seemed to have a little difficulty trying to put that feeling into words, but that didn’t matter because I knew exactly what they were trying to describe…which made me think about all of us IlVolovers around the world and how different we all are, yet we have this one thing in common: we feel at one with Il Volo…which is demonstrated everyday here on this website.

And all of that made me wonder how all of you might be spending this holiday season.  I can think of a few holidays that are celebrated at this time of year,but while individual religious and/or familial traditions may differ, one aspect seems to transcend them all: love.  Love for family and friends and for our fellow-man in general.

We seem to put aside the typical things that separate us and willingly wish everyone well.  We think about things that we are blessed with and are reminded of which are most important to us.  We make a wish that everyone around the world is feeling the same, because it seems that everyone deserves to and should be happy at this time of the year.

During this season, we have one soul.

And in that spirit, we wish you and yours health, wealth (remembering that the richest among us can be the poorest of church mice) and most of all: Love.

We wish the same for you too, Gianluca, Piero and Ignzaio.  Buon Natale with love!

~~ Kelly2008-12-24_merry-christmas

Holiday, POETRY

THE LAMENT

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OK Flight Crew, since the Boys left I’ve tried to keep it light and humorous, but
today I’m experiencing the honest emotions of the season. So, it is with a refrigerator
filled with ingredients for my share of Christmas dinner and love for my family
wrapped in red and green tissue paper under the tinsel, that I have to tell you all how
I truly feel.

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Piero (12/16) “Today we’ll be back home!!”

Ignazio (12/18) “Going back home!!!! Sooooo excited!! Kisses”

Gianluca (12/11) “Ladies and Gentleman. I’m in Italy!”

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THE LAMENT

You all went too far for me.
I can’t go across the sea.

I’m sad, so sad I want to weep,
but in my heart a place you’ll keep.

Ok, be home to rest and play
and love your families everyday.

I’ll be patient and wait, you’ll see.
Just please come back and sing to me.

~Marie

Holiday, Il Volo, In Case You Missed It

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT……

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Hi Everyone,

Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca are finally at their respective homes enjoying time with their families and friends. Piero attended a cousin’s wedding, Ignazio is seen playing soccer and Gianluca is sending us Christmas pictures, dressed in red! For the first time in months they can taste their Mom’s cooking, be with their dads and enjoy being with their siblings. We all miss them, but seeing them so happy to be home warms the heart. There is no place like home for the holidays, to borrow from the famous song!!

Twitter, Tweets and Keeks:

Gianluca, On the 19th, “Many thoughts, many memories, just for you #ilvolovers#Fans” “It’s 5 days for Christmas”

Thanks to Gianluca
Thanks to Gianluca

Piero, #Auguri to my beautiful cousins #wedding” 2 hrs ago “Can’t stop eating, ahhahaa #CHristmas spirit #home #family” ( I must confess he sent a picture of the food he was speaking about and I have no clue what it is)

Thanks to Piero
Thanks to Piero

Ignazio, sadly no new tweets, but enjoy this photo!

Mundial
Mundial

See article on Team Il Volo called, “Il Volo, the most famous Italian trio in America, is on the top ten of ITunes”

Have a look at Mundial and All Things Il Volo for more photo and videos.

Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca, have a Merry and Blessed Christmas! For all of the Flight Crew supporters and fans, the best ever Holiday filled with Love and Blessings!!

Linda            winter2

Holiday, POETRY

STOP PLAYING BUON NATALE

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Dear Flight Crew,this one

I have called off work due to a level 2 snow emergency. I’m sitting here, feeling miserable, with a head cold, still in my jammies, wrapped in a robe, watching it snow AGAIN! I dislike snow and it’s friend the ice.

I was born, almost on the beach, in perpetually sunny Southern California. Where we lived we could see Mt. Baldy. Ol’ Baldy was snow-capped part of the year. Twice a year or so mom would go into her bedroom closet and get that little bag with nine pairs of knitted gloves inside. We would all put on our heavest sweaters and jackets (none of us had boots, of course), pile in the Station Wagon and an hour and a half later we were in the snow. We would touch it, throw it, get cold feet and noses, hop in the car, go home and get in the pool. We weren’t rich. In Southern California I think you can get public assistance to build a pool.

Now, I’m grown and live in Ohio. There’s usually not a lot of snow here. Until now! So, it is among the sounds of the snow plows scraping and the snow blowers wailing that I blame Il Volo for this mess. More specifically “Buon Natale”. Stay with me here. I mean, look at these songs:

I’ll Be Home For Christmas – (“Please have snow…” they’re begging here!)
Jingle Bell Rock – (“..snowing and blowing..” sound like “bushels of fun” to you?)
It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year – (“caroling out in the snow” why?)
White Christmas – (the whole darn things about snow!)
Let it Snow. Let It Snow, Let it Snow – (nuff said, nuff said, nuff said)

For all I know, Panis Angelicus may mean “send more snow ” in Latin! (no emails please, I know it doesn’t). Ave Maria doesn’t mention snow though. I’m pretty sure that one is about me.

Now… if The Boys sang these to you as nicely as they do and you could open up the heavens and let the snow pour down wouldn’t you? Come on, I know all of you. Of course you would!

I rest my case. Someone up there is listening! STOP PLAYING BUON NATALE while I can still find my car under the snow! I have Christmas shopping to finish!

Thanking you in advance.

Sincerely,
~Marie