Mayor Dorinda Borer and the West Haven Italian Heritage Committee will honor the late great Vinnie Carr as the city’s posthumous Italian American of the Year at the 26th annual Italian Heritage Celebration. His widow, Denise LaMonica Carr, will receive the Italian American of the Year award on his behalf during a City Hall ceremony at noon Friday, Oct. 10.
Carr, the grandson of emigrant grandparents from Naples, Italy, was known around West Haven for entertaining audiences as the dynamic leader of Vinnie Carr and the Party Band and the Vinnie Carr Orchestra and for serving as a musical ambassador of his proud Italian ancestry.
