Memphis Italian Festival

A HUGE thank you to all of the volunteers that make our festival possible!! There are so many people that do so much to make this festival happen! We appreciate every single volunteer to much!!💚❤️🇮🇹

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Eccellente! Memphis Italian Festival returns for 35th year ECCELLENTE! This year, the Memphis Italian Festival celebrates 35 years of honoring Italian culture with food, music, arts and crafts and more.

Our WINNER of the 2024 Chevrolet Trailblazer LS that was donated by Chuck Hutton Chevrolet is Becky Turri! Congratulations Becky, what a treat it was to call you live at the festival! Special thanks to our incredible sponsor Chuck Hutton Chevrolet! Thank you to everyone that purchased a raffle ticket supporting our festival, school and community! 🚙

Memphis Italian Fest prides itself on being 'family-friendly' This year’s event featured carnival rides for the kids, an Italian cooking demo, an indoor game of co****le, and 901 Goats for families to view, along with 46 cooking teams competing in a variety of Italian food cuisine competitions.

The Memphis Italian Fest Volleyball Classic was a BLAST! Thank you 🏐

Congrats to our cooking teams!! Thank you to everyone that participated!💚❤️🇮🇹

Spaghetti Gravy Contest
1st Place- Pasta La Vista
2nd - Pasta Famiglia
3rd- Foodfellas
4th- Luigi’s and Pasquales
5th- Garbolucci
6th- Pazzo
Anything Italian
1st Place- Ciao Y’all
2nd - Noodleheads
3rd- Bats Amore

Happy Hour Contest
1st- Fistful of Garlic
2nd- Italian Vagrants
3rd- Famiglia E ‘Amici

Homemade Wine
1st- Pasta Famiglia
2nd- Eat Drink and Be Italian
3rd- Pasta La Vista

Powder Room
1st- Pasta Famiglia
2nd- The Alfredo Brothers
3rd- It’s All Gravy Baby

Blind Gravy Contest
1st- Foodfellas

Team Shirt Contest
1st- Pasta La Vista
2nd- Luigi and Pasquales
3rd- It’s All Gravy Baby

Best Booth
1st- Pasta Famiglia
2nd- Pasta La Vista
3rd- Holy Cannolis

People’s Choice Award
Foodfellas

Your 2024 Great Grape Stomp -Holy Rosary Champions are none other than our Coach Bre Austin, Athletic Director at Holy Rosary and Coach Carly our PE Teacher! 🏆 🍇

Congrats to Two Italians Lotsa Rednecks!! They won the cooking team grape stomp yesterday !! 🍇🍷🍾

Checkin location is in the Wiley Gym located in the Holy Rosary parking lot.‼️

Co****le is open to the public Saturday, June 1!

It’s only $50 per team to enter! Send a team name and names of your team members to Maria at [email protected]. First come first serve.

You can pay when you arrive. Checkin is at noon and tournament runs from 1-5. 1st and 2nd place win cash prize!

Day 2 was a Italian party!! Memories were made and food was eaten! 🥰😋🥳

Today is our last day!! Join us for the best family festival in Memphis! Gates are open 11am to 11pm!!🇮🇹

Landslide: A Memphis Tribute To Fleetwood Mac was absolutely incredible tonight!

Online sales for the Car Raffle are over! You can still buy a ticket at the Car Raffle tent in person until 5:00pm tomorrow!! It’s only $10 to enter! GO BUY ONE NOW!💚❤️

Come dine in the air conditioned comfort of Luigi’s Cafe. Service begins at 6:00 pm and runs until 9:00pm or until food runs out; first come first served (no reservations). It costs $20 and this includes an Entree, Salad, Bread, Dessert and a Drink. We will have wine & beer available for an additional cost.
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Friday, May 31 – Valle’s Italian Rebel

Choice of Baked Ziti or Spinach Alfredo
Italian Salad
Bread
Dessert
Soda or water
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Saturday, June 1 – Lucchesi’s Ravioli & Pasta Co.

Choice of Spaghetti or Ravioli
Italian Salad
Bread
Cannolis
​ Soda or water

Co****le is open to the public Saturday, June 1!

It’s only $50 per team to enter! Send a team name and names of your team members to Maria at [email protected]. First come first serve.

You can pay when you arrive. Checkin is at noon and tournament runs from 1-5. 1st and 2nd place win cash prize!

Checkin location TBD

Best Booth and Powder Room judging is underway! We can’t wait to see who wins🎉💚❤️

Come to Luigi’s Market and shop! We have t-shirts, posters, flags, food, and other great festival merchandise!

Foodfella’s just finished the first cooking demonstration!! It was delicious 🤩🤩

There are 3 more left today!! It’s open to the public and FREE!!

The first day of Memphis Italian Festival was a blast!Day 2 is here, gates are open from 11:00am -11:00pm!!🍺💚🇮🇹

Steve Vescovo is our 2024 Outstanding Italian! We celebrated him last night during our sponsor party❤️

100% Full-Blooded Italian, Steve Vescovo is a proud Catholic, lifelong Memphian and the grandson of four Italian immigrants. His grandparents’ surnames are Vescovo, Balestrino, Catalina, and Rocchetti; all of whom immigrated from Italy to the US between 1890 and 1910.
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Steve is the second child of Louis and Clara Vescovo. His father, Louis, was one of nine children born to Pete and Emma Vescovo from Bassignana, Italy, near the city of Alessandria. His mother, Clara, was the seventh of eight children born to Augusto and Giustina Catalina, who immigrated from Ancona, Italy. Steve was born and raised in Whitehaven where his parents instilled a devotion to his Catholic faith and his family; qualities he continues to live by.
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Steve attended St. Paul Catholic School, Bishop Byrne High School, and then Memphis State University, majoring in accounting, followed by law school at Memphis State University and obtaining his J.D. in 1980.
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He was a parishioner of St. Paul Catholic Church during his childhood and continues to support St. Paul, while being a parishioner of St. Louis Catholic Church. His children and step-son all attended Holy Rosary Catholic School, where Steve was a parishioner for a time and coached youth basketball and other sports for more than 10 years.
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​Steve’s free time is spent with his amazing wife Susan Vescovo, supporting the University of Memphis Tigers—where he has been a season ticket holder for football and basketball for 44 straight years—and the Memphis Grizzlies, traveling, and with his family, including his sons Stephen (Heather) and Nic (Marianna), his step-son Brett Russell (Ashley), and his nine grandchildren, Lilliana (16), Trace (14), Kellan (10), Max (10), Rosalyn (8), Eva (7), Rebecca (6), Ryland (2), and Rhett (3 months)