Italian music continues to serve as a vehicle for the preservation of Italian culture in Boston! Principally engaged in support of religious feasts and cultural events in Boston's North End, the Roma Band delights tourists and local gentry alike, as it perpetuates the devotion of the Italian community to the dignity and beauty of their heritage!

Under the leadership of Salvatore (Salvi) Pugliese, the Roma Band provides a musical menu, unique in its kind. Playing without sheet music, players respond to whatever Salvi's musically intuitive mind suggests. "Follow me! Sequite mi !" is his customary introduction to the next number. He goes by two titles: he is our Capo della Banda and the Maestro of Montefalcione - his home town! Some of his fellow players are native Italian; others are either former instructors in music or recent advanced-degree graduates of the New England Conservatory and the Boston University School of Music. Salvi alternates between vibrant, rhythmic selections in the line of: Quan' Mamma t'a fatte; Giovinezza; Facetta Nera - to the sonorous beauty of Calabrisella, Mala Femina, Buono Anno/Buona Fortuna and Vieni, in la Strada nel Bosco!
Also known under its Italian name of <bandaroma.com>, the Roma Band performs for weddings, social and business functions, church services, as well as dinner parties.