It’s hard to get a group of Italians to agree on much of anything, says Chuck Ferraro, co-chair of the Italian-American Club of Greater Greenville’s event planning committee. He surveyed tables of chatting stragglers left from a monthly lunch at Bertolo’s Pizza on Pelham Road.

“We need a megaphone,” Ferraro said. “They all want to talk. They all want to have their ideas taken in.” That’s about 180 different opinions, 40 new voices since the last year. But there is at least one thing the club agreed on: an inaugural Italian-American festival, hosted at the Fountain Inn Depot on April 30.