Pinocchio, Soul and Baroque Music

The festa continues in Barga Vecchia. This evening started with the opening of a joint exhibition by Alessandro Reggiolo and Silvia Silvestri entitled "Pinocchio in Barga" a journey through art history using Pinocchio as our guide. He "untruthes" his way, nose getting longer and longer, as a Vincent Van Gogh, a Gustav Klimt, a Jackson Pollock, Joan Miro and even maybe an Antoni Tapies.



Then the music changes!



In Casa Cordati this evening a feast of baroque music with Santina Tomasello - soprano, Gian Luca Lastraioli - liuto, chitarra e pandurina and Ottaviano Tenerani - clavicembalo



Meanwhile out in the open at Piazza Angelio, those Soul Brothers, Mr Pitiful were blasting out some heavy, heavy soul numbers.... they just get better and better.



They call me Mr. Pitiful
Baby thats my name now
They call me Mr. Pitiful
Thats how I got my fame
But people just don`t seem to understand
How someone can feel so blue
They call me Mr pitiful cause I lost someone just like you.

Written by Otis Redding / Steve Cropper