Biography:

Lorenzo Bertocchini & The Apple Pirates are a great, seven-piece band playing a tasty blend of rock, folk, blues, country and soul. The band includes Floriano Botter (drums), Marco Negrelli (bass, backing vocals), Dario Paini (saxophone, percussion), Roberto Masciocchi (piano, organ), Luca Pasqua (electric guitar, backing vocals), Alessandro Talamona (guitar, banjo, backing vocals), and Lorenzo Bertocchini (vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica).
They will give you a taste of Italy with a folk-rock tempo, and show you a new world where irony is a way of life and poets are king.
Their songs are in English, and they are about love, loss, one-night-stands, hitch-hiking, drinking, eating, washing machines, sad factory workers, happy hookers, Italian bandits, American highways, Scandinavian sailors and Bollywood actresses (ever heard their blues-tarantella, "All I Want For My Birthday"?). Some are powerful, some are delicate, some are bitter, some are sweet, some are realistic, some are nonsense. All of them are inspired and honest.
The Apple Pirates’ energetic shows earned them a cult following in Italy, where people call them a “folk’n’fun band”.
Lorenzo Bertocchini (vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica) also likes to occasionally perform and record solo. With his deeply personal lyrics, there is no denying the honest raw emotions revealed in his songs.
Lorenzo's fan base in Europe has propelled him to the top of the Americana list overseas. One of his US tours included sharing the stage with Bruce Springsteen at the Light of Day benefit concert.
Over the years, Lorenzo has shared bills/stages/recording studios with such artists as Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Bob Neuwirth, Eric Andersen, Dan Bern, Elliott Murphy, and Rosie Flores.

Lorenzo Bertocchini & The Apple Pirates are currently on tour on support of their CD, “Uncertain, Texas”, including benefit concerts for the Emergency bringing medical help to civil victims in war torn areas around the world.