Dublin’s DelRossi’s Trattoria, an Italian restaurant in America, seems the perfect host for Beppe Gambetta, an Italian guitarist interested in American music.

Gambetta has lived in Italy his whole life, but after picking up the guitar and learning to play, he found his great interest musically to be American bluegrass.

“The style of music you love can call you in the same way as the big love of your life,” Gambetta says. “In a few seconds, you can tell this is the person you have been looking for. I heard two tunes and I understood.”

First hearing the genre from the private collection of an acquaintance, Gambetta sought out more of the music. He researched bluegrass at home, but soon decided that to really learn the style he would have to travel to the United States.

In 1988, he came to America, hit the road with a tape recorder, and knocked on the doors of the bluegrass legends he had come to admire: Danny Weiss, Norman Blake, Alan Munde, Mike Marshall, John Jorgenson, Dan Crary, Raul Reynoso, Rob Griffin, Charles Sawtelle, David Grier, Joe Carr and Phil Rosenthal.

He was received well, invited into the homes of the musicians. What resulted was one of his first albums, called “Dialogs” and released in 1989.

“It was rewarding to be accepted and to know that all my heroes, the great players of the style I loved, were so open to help a young guy from far away trying to bring music back to Europe,” Gambetta says.

Now, about 20 years later, Gambetta has released an album called “Randez-vous” with the same premise. Collaborating with greats such as Patty Larkin and Darrell Scott, as well as with his son, Filippo Gambetta, who plays button accordion, the album explores folk, bluegrass and Italian and European music.

“It is original acoustic music strongly influenced by the traditions of both sides of the ocean,” Gambetta says.

“Randez-Vous” has been bootlegged in China, Gambetta says, expressing both disappointment with the practice, but also with a hint of flattery.

“To be bootlegged means your music is important to someone,” he says.

As he continues to compose, Gambetta says he tries to preserve the poetic aspects of music rather than the complex. In this age of instant gratification, he says, poetry is hard to come by.

Gambetta first played at DelRossi’s about 15 years ago, collaborating with banjo player Tony Trischka.

“It’s a marvelous place that has a great reputation for putting up great artists,” Gambetta says. “It’s a little corner of excellence.”

David DelRossi says that he is excited to have Gambetta back.

“He’s just such a master,” DelRossi says. “He’s so fun to watch and so versatile. The way he voices the instrument and his treatment of songs in his own style gives everything such a good, fresh arrangement.”

At DelRossi’s, which has been a music venue for decades, having great performers come was almost an accident.

“The performers that played here would almost insist,” DelRossi says. “They just loved to come here. They liked it as a small listening room and loved the food. Sometimes musicians would joke that they were just coming to play for dinner.”

DelRossi rarely had to approach musicians. They would approach the restaurant, and more and more famous acts came through Dublin, particularly after The Folkway in Peterborough closed.

“I couldn’t believe who was calling me, people I enjoyed listening to — Allison Krauss, Norman Blake,” DelRossi says.

In recent years, the restaurant has had fewer music events, but it is still something they do when someone asks, leading to one or two shows per month.

Gambetta tickets are $14. Call 563 7195, or visit www.delrossis.com.