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Hamish Moore – Aspettare e Sperare !

389 days ago

Barganews is and has been such a life force, an integral and intimate part of Barga, that since hearing the news of it’s imminent changes I have had to remind myself that Barga will still actually continue to be there after the metamorphosis, whatever form this will take. Through Barganews, the visionary behind it, Keane, has done more for this wee, dignified and ancient city than most people can understand or appreciate. Aspettare e Sperare ! The last year for [...]

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06/26/2010 2:52 pm

Gala Concert – Scottish Music Song and Dance

There are more than 50 students and tutors in the city this week for the first ever Barga School of Scottish Music Song and Dance. The school, held from 20-27 June in the Tuscan hill town these days regarded as the most Scottish town in Italy, due to the large volume of emigration from the ...

06/24/2010 12:26 am

Chris Norman flute master class

06/21/2010 3:56 pm

Barga School of Scottish Music Song and Dance

04/21/2010 11:47 am

Primavera 2010 – Hamish Moore

I remember well one of the last things Keane said to me before I made my premature departure from Barga in early October 2008. He said, “well that’s this chapter over but I am sure there is a reason for this and I am also sure the story won’t finish here” Keane was of course right on both counts. He...

02/05/2010 3:04 pm

“Il Saluto di Giovanni Moscardini” premiere in Barga

Back in August 2008 we published an article about Blair Douglas, one of Scotland’s foremost musicians who had just penned a composition in honour of the Scots-Italian footballer, Giovanni or Johnny Moscardini, who though born in Falkirk in 1897, took to the field a total of nine times for ‘Azzurri’...

01/16/2010 10:11 pm

The Barga School of Piping

Barga School of Piping, Traditional Music and Dance – Hamish Moore is delighted to announce an exciting new Summer School to be held in Barga in Tuscany from the 20th – 27th June 2010. Barga is where he spent last 2008 as musician in residence (all of Hamish’s articles written that year...

10/03/2008 12:29 am

Hamish Moore's final article for 2008

So, here we are on the last night. It feels strangely ghost like. The Duomo Bells have given me the time but the town is so quiet. Marino is closed with the flu, Ricardo is on a day off, The Altana is shut for holidays and there really is no one about and it’s a bit grey and damp. (more…) Scottish...

09/25/2008 3:54 pm

Triumphant Scottish Concert

At 9.20 pm the huge bells above the Duomo started to swing as three members of the Barga Bellringers strained on the thick ropes to move the many tonnes of inert ancient bronze. Within minutes the swinging movement was enough for the enormous clappers hanging inside the bells to connect with the waiting...

09/23/2008 2:57 pm

How the bells tolled – Hamish Moore

“It was in Aristos one cold morning in April and there were the four of us, Aristo, Marino, Keane and myself. The door was closed to the miserable cold and wet mountain air. (“fredoliiiiiinnnnnnnno” echoed round my ears as the lovely old lady sang out with a tortured painfulness in...

09/23/2008 11:01 am

Grand Concert of Scottish Traditional Music, Song and Dance

Background to the Concert. One evening in May, while walking home through Piazza Angelio, Paolo Marrone stopped me and offered me the Theatre in Barga to put on a concert of Scottish Traditional Music and Song. What an opportunity.! With me on that occasion were two members of an art group from John...

09/19/2008 6:24 pm

Piping Scots Culture into a Little Bit of Italy

THEY say that in the Tuscan hill town of Barga, near Lucca, anyone who speaks English does so with a Glasgow accent, such has been the degree of emigration to the west of Scotland from the area. This may be an exaggeration, but it is entirely true that on Wednesday the town will resound with the strains...

06/04/2008 12:01 am

From Aristos to The Oxford Bar (The Italian Connection)

Simple cultural differences are sometimes the stuff of amusement and its almost a devil of a job to get a cup of tea in Aristos. The concept of sitting, lingering over a long hot drink doesnâ€™t exist here in Italy, with the possible exception of a cappuccino which is taken, as a rule before high...

05/26/2008 9:58 pm

Liberazione

We have just had two feast days here in Barga, here in Italy, and they were celebrated in style, with conviction and boundless energy. The first was on the 25th of April, Giorno di Liberazione, when liberation from the horrors of fascism during the second world war is celebrated, and the second was...

05/25/2008 11:00 pm

Concert Fin Moore, Hamish Moore and Sarah Hoy

A concert this afternoon in Piazza Angelio of traditional Scottish music by Fin Moore and Sarah Moy. The couple have played recent concerts in New York, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, and Hong Kong and now Barga. They were invited here as guests of Hamish Moore, artist in residence 2008 and it is...

04/14/2008 12:01 am

Uccelli

I stayed longer than I would have ideally but the airfares went up during and around Easter. That bearded one, has a lot to answer for ! Actually, Easter in Scotland, apart from two days public holiday, is generally, religiously and even commercially a bit of a non event. I find it difficult to believe,...

03/21/2008 12:03 am

Pigs Legs

It was early morning when I trundled down the mountain to Gallicano to catch the 8.41 train to Lucca. We had been enjoying some lovely warm spring like days in Barga but the forecast for the day was for northern winds with snow. Everyone was wrapped up well in the lovely wee...

03/12/2008 3:44 pm

Barga – Sailing up the Clyde: The Scottish Connection

Barga Scottish connections are renowned and legendary but I have to say – it's true. (Just before I get into this I have relate a story visa a vie last weeks rant about supermarkets. It was last Wednesday – forgot it was half day in Barga so took a turn into the wee, local and as it...

03/06/2008 3:52 pm

Porti e Finestri – Aperta.

The fourth article from Hamish Moore – the premier small pipes bagpipe maker in Scotland now working in Barga as artist in residence 2008 – I am now beginning to wonder when the door will slam – you know that old feeling:Its almost a barometer of how well things seem to be...

02/26/2008 3:09 pm

Building Blocks

The third article from Hamish Moore – acknowledged as the premier small pipes bagpipe maker in Scotland now working in Barga as artist in residence 2008 – Twas on the Monday morning and I had put in a good three hour shift at the lathe and was just thinking about stopping for some...