About Mixed Grille

Lou Borelli has been a musician his whole life. He attended Berklee School of Music and graduated from Challoff School of Music as a trumpet major. He has played with the Milford Youth Band and performed at the Newport Jazz Festival and Boston Globe Festival. He won the "best jazz trumpeter" award from Worcester Magazine a few years ago. He is one of the jazz artists featured in The Jazz Worcester Real Book, 2003.

Lou has played with many bands throughout his life including the Brookline Symphony Orchestra and he ran his own seven piece band "Common Good " for many years.

Lou has taught instrumental lessons privately and in various school systems over the years and he is currently teaching at Holy Name in Worcester. He is very happy to have found his niche there because the school really values the music program.

Janet Borelli has been an accordionist since she was old enough to hold the instrument, having taken lessons from her father, George Lilyestrom and then Quido Forchielli. She and Lou have played as a duo in the Worcester area for twenty five years as "Hi-Lites". She is currently taking courses at Berklee and hopes to play on a cruise ship. This has been a dream of hers since she was a little girl.

Marshall Mason is from Holden and has played drums professionally for over 40 years. He has performed with many bands and combos through the years including military bands and symphonic orchestras. He has also played for many local musical theater productions as a member of the pit band.

Besides playing with "Mixed Grille", Marshall is also the drummer for "Classic Swing Band", which opened the Centrum in Worcester with Frank Sinatra a few years ago. Marshall also plays in "Lou Borelli Octet" with Lou and Jan.

"Mixed Grille" has released a CD called "Mixed Grille Plays Italian Music". The songs are all Italian melodies, some sung in English, some in Italian, some are instrumentals. Jan plays electric as well as acoustic accordion on the CD. Lou sings and plays trumpet and flute and Marshall is on drums with added percussion instruments. It is available in many locations now!

Songs on the CD are :
• Anema e Core
• Tra Veglia E Suonno
• Eh Cumpari
• I Can't Get You Out Of My Heart
• The Godfather Waltz
• Non Dimenticar
• La Donna E Mobile
• Tarantella Napoletana
• Quando, Quando, Quando
• Mala Femmena
• Amore Scusami
• Statte Vicino A'mme
• The Woodpecker Song
• The Ferry Boat Serenade
• I Have But One Heart

Hear an audio sample from our CD on our Music Page.