events and news from in and around Barga (LU) Italy
Large crowds this morning for the naming of the Istituto Alberghiero which will now carry the name "Istituto Alberghiero Fratelli Pieroni" and for the official opening of the new rooms, kitchens and work areas of the Istituto. More images here
Karima Jazz Quartet at the Barga Jazz Club
What a voice ..... Karima just took over the place this evening ...everybody enjoyed themselves, including the band ... check out those images .. there is actually one of Nino Pellegrini on contrabbasso grinning from ear to ear !
Karima Hammar - voce
Marco Cattani - Chitarra
Piero Gaddi - pianoforte
Nino Pellegrini – contrabbasso
More images here
Article by Ian Mitchell in the Sunday Herald
Thanks to hamish, JulieUK and maitland in the barganews forum for pointing this out....
Travel: The charming Tuscan hill town of Barga has proud and enduring connections with Scotland – the perfect place to wash down your fish and chips with a fine Chianti. By Ian Mtchell
THE village of Barga in northern Tuscany claims, with some merit, to be one of Il Borghi piu belli d’Italia. Standing on a wooded hill above the valley of the Serchio River, the walled settlement with its twisting, flagged streets and grand palazzi is a time capsule of centuries-ago Italy, and a more beautiful town indeed would be hard to find.
However, Barga’s second claim to fame is true beyond doubt, it is certainly Il Borgho piu scozzese d’Italia, and the nearest thing Caledonia has had to a colony, owing to its connections with the Italian community in Scotland. This combination of Italian exoticism underlain with Scots familiarity makes this a unique and fascinating place for a holiday.
Barga is a place which exceeds expectations, and any visit there gives you more than you bargained for. Situated in the province of Lucca, Barga has been an important place since the construction of its cathedral in the tenth Century. Coming under the dominance of first Lucca and then Florence, Barga prospered through trade and eventually became integrated into the united Italy, created in 1861.
However, by this time its former glories had gone, and like much of Tuscany, and Italy in general, Barga’s main export was people seeking to escape from the poverty associated with working small plots of land under conditions of feudal exploitation.
Successful emigrants started as street traders and worked themselves up to become owners of groceries, barber shops and restaurants, attracting fellows from their local village. Some Tuscan villages organised a trail to America, some to Argentina, but from bella Barga, as luck would have it, the trail led to Scotland.
These links between Barga and the countries adopted by the emigrants has helped to transform the town, as has the regular jaunts by emigrants back to the place of their birth. Each summer the town is full of Scots-Italians on holiday, which gives it a unique flavour.
“If ye get lost, jist go tae the Gelateria and ask Wanda fur directions,” I was told by one visitor. “She’s fae Rothesay.”
The Italians who settled in Scotland brought our country great benefits. Just on the food front, there’s cappuccino, spaghetti and good ice cream (the Nardini clan of Largs hail from here), but they kept the best to themselves, as a trip to Barga will demonstrate.
Many of the restaurants here belong to families who also have establishments in Dumfries, or Paisley (Barga abounds with Buddies), or Bearsden and Inverness. But gastronomic standards are much higher, and prices are far lower, than in Scotland.
This is Chianti country, and as well as names of those denominazioni you will have heard of at home (but for a fraction of the price), most restaurants and alimentari sell local wines, produced in small quantities, often from the booming organic wine-producing sector. A house wine in one trattoria was, I was told, popular with the Glaswegians because it is 14 per cent proof.
Wine tasting tours are available, and allow the sampling of several wines by small local producers, and the opportunities to purchase them, and include a gastronomic lunch. The food is superb. The hills north of Lucca produce probably the best olive oil in the world, in a bewildering array of varieties, and the woods are the source of the abundant porcini mushrooms which feature in many local dishes.
Buy these mushrooms in local shops and they will cost a fraction of what they do at the airport. The woods are also full of castagni, local chestnuts which feature in many dishes and are also ground into flour for baking, producing excellent crepes and torte. Chestnut flour is also used as the basis of the local polenta which features prominently in the cuisine here.
Other items on the menu are trout from the Serchio River, and wild boar from the woods around the village. Ice cream comes in every conceivable variety, including that made with local frutta di bosco, and most deliciously, one version that looked like it was made with peas, but which turned out to be a delicious sour-apple ice cream.
On the terrace of the Trattoria da Riccardo, just outside the Porta Mancianella, you can have a view of the mountains, and overlook the garden where the vegetables and herbs for your meal are grown, an unfamiliar experience at home. But then the familiar returns.
The most interesting and unique item of local gastronomy comes in the form of a tribute to a culinary tradition of the land which made the fortunes of most of the Italian emigrants to Scotland: fish and chips. For the first two weeks every August the town hosts a festival of Pesce e Patate when you can wash down your fish supper with Chianti.
For a small town, Barga buzzes. In July there is the Barga Jazz Festival where local musicians perform in the open air in the evenings, and you can eat your meal al fresco to a musical accompaniment.
The town has always attracted artists and writers, such as the great poet Giovanni Pascoli who made the town his home a century ago, and died there, in what he called “the land of the beautiful and the good”. You can sit on the balcony at the Caffe Capretz, one of his favourite spots, and look over the flowers on the railings at the spectacular blue-hued Apuane mountains.
The composer Puccini was a friend of Pascoli and a regular visitor to Barga and a whole host of painters known as the Pascoli Generation found inspiration in the town, such as Cordati, Magri and Santini.
The most recent artist to be inspired by Barga is Scotland’s own John Bellany. Though his house is in Garfagnana nearby, Bellany has a gallery in Barga. The town, and what Bellany describes as the “enchanted landscape” around, is a frequent feature in his more recent painting.
Another Scottish artist at home in Barga is Glasgow based Maggie Ramage, who teaches painting at the Villa Bellavista for Artemisia Holidays. There appears to be an exhibition opening every day in Barga (on my first day I went to two), and the local galleries, such as the Casa Cordati have regularly changing exhibitions.
Theatre in Barga dates back centuries to when the Duke and Duchess of the time had their own private performances, and today the Teatro dei Differenti offers exciting summer programmes. On my trip I was able to see the first modern performance of Scarlatti’s opera La Caduta dei Decemviri, and chamber orchestras regularly perform.
You can resist the temptation just to be a people-watching café resident by going on a passagio around Barga itself. The Passegiatta Panoramica lasts around an hour and finishes at the cathedral. This originally Romanesque building has striking marble friezes on the exterior, and inside there is a fine carved marble pulpit and Della Robbia terracottas.
For the more adventurous walker, the Serchio valley lies between the crest of the Appenines, where Scottish-like terrain gives you mountains rising to more than 6000ft, and where Monte Giovo is a worthy objective.
To the west of the Serchio valley lie the slightly lower, but more rugged Alpi Apuane, whose Dolomite-like ridges and summits offer challenging walks, and whose Pania della Croce tantalises when seen from Barga. These mountains have good, marked paths, and Rifugi, where even if you don’t stay overnight, you can buy refreshments.
Near to Barga lies the village of Coreglia Antellmine, cautiously calling itself one of the most beautiful villages in Italy. Coreglia has what must be the world’s only Museum of Emigration, telling of its inhabitants who roamed the world selling plaster religious figurines.
A little further away is Bagni di Lucca, with an Anglican Church associated with the great British poets like Shelley, Byron and the Brownings. It is almost devoid of tourists, and the bagni, where one can take the waters with a steam and mud bath, had only six visitors.
Barga still bustles, but there is no tourist tat, no tourist ‘attractions’, indeed, very few tourists as such, no fast food outlets, no British lager louts. Just a gorgeous town with masses to offer and a people who have a Scots flavouring to their Italian extravagance.
By the end of a week I knew everyone: the gallery owners, the café proprietors, the taxi drivers, even the guys who swept the streets. I met a couple of fellow Scots on the slopes of Monte Giovo and was introducing them in a restaurant to my Barga hosts. At the next table was an Italian family, chatting in Italian and presided over by a formidable matriarch. Hearing my introductions, the matriarch commented in an unmistakable Glasgwegian accent, “Ye might as well introduce us aw while ye’re at it.”
That’s Barga.
24 April 2005
Problems for the stone Marzocco statue that has been guarding the Piazza for generations.
Age is finally catching up with it. 
The Firenze Marzocco, a carved lion, which is a copy of the famed Donatello Marzocco from 1418 (and now found in the Museo Nazionale) has suffered from the harsh weather that Barga has had this winter and is starting to crack across the legs.
Unless something is done shortly, one morning the owners of the gallery which takes its name from the proud stone lion will wake up with the poor Marzocco in pieces on the pavement and the inhabitants of Barga bereft of another culturally valuable piece of their history. 
EDIT; The Comune has had experts to look at the damage this morning and it looks as though the Marzocco's long vigil outside of the Capretz bar is over and s/he is going to be pensioned off and moved to the Museum and a copy put up in her/his place.
Anybody out there know the sex of a Marzocco ?
Following a letter to the visitors book in March 2000, from a French tourist visiting Barga for the first time and complaining about the condition of the public toilets, barganews decided to do a survey of all the toilets available to the growing number of tourists arriving in Barga.
The idea was if the images were published on the internet and then voted on .... then maybe the people responsible for the condition of the toilets might take a bit more care and maybe, just maybe, the standards would rise.
This in fact precisely what did happen. If you check out the images of the toilets from five years ago and compare them to the images now you can see a great leap in the right direction with many being completely rebuilt and disabled access becoming the norm.
It was mainly the toilets in Barga Vecchia who showed the way with the 1999 and 2000 prize going to Osteria Angelio and Capretz followed by the surprise win in 2001 of the Xray dept. at the Hospital then in 2004 it moved down the hill to the Barga Giardino area with the Pasticceria Lucchesi taking the coveted prize.
This year, another surprise as it has gone to the newly built public toilets below the Belvedere Alberto Magri ... the new car park toilets to be exact.
So just what was it that finally put a public toilet back into the winners circle ? .... complete article and more images here
Daily Images from the award winning photographer O'Connor here on barganews.com moves into the month of April.
It has been a long, long winter, and here in April there are still some dark cold looking images and one or two umbrellas to be seen.
Remember the stories last month about O'Connor being heavily involved in another project based upon images of womens underwear?
Rumours of an forthcoming exhibition are still circulating around Barga Vecchia and what do we have in this month's images ? ... a couple of shots of what look like large paintings of underwear ... maybe there is some base to those rumours after all ?
We will keep you informed.
Oh, by the way, if you look down at the bottom of the front page of barganews.com there is a daily image that is changed automatically every time people log onto the site ..thanks to some coding work from "atman" in Boston USA, you can now refresh that image by clicking on the link just below it instead of having to reload the whole page ..a small thing but neat don't you think ? Thanks @
Images from April can be found here
Jack's Pack once more picked up their instruments and carried on with their concert that was stopped last week after only three songs as the news of the Popes's death arrived in Barga. This evening, they just kept on going ... nothing was going to stop them this time.
JJ Carde was missing from the usual Jack's Pack line up but his place was taken by the versatile and dynamic drumming of Franco and the blues machine just kept on rolling.
More images here
As part of the continuing process of twinning between the two cities of Barga and Hayange in France, there was a concert this evening in the Teatro dei Differenti with the stage shared by two bands from both cities... the Harmonie Municipale de Hayange and the Banda Musicale"G Luporini" di Barga
More images and an MP3 file for both bands in action can be found here
As part of the continuing process of twinning between the two cities of Barga and Hayange in France, the two Mayors of Hayange and Barga welcomed the Harmonie Municipale de Hayange this morning as they marched through Barga Vecchia in prepararion for a concert in the Teatro dei Differenti later on today
More images here
A new musical venue has started to appear on the local music radar ... further down the valley from Barga at Valle Verde, Piano della Rocca.
There have been a few Barga musicians playing in the restaurant every thursday night.... Jack's Pack, Rizzardi and Rhazckal and this evening another Barga Duo; Strabacco with the able help of the keyboard wizard Rhazckal were added to the growing list.
Word is gradually trickling out around the valley that the place to be on thursday night for some serious music is in the restaurant on the way to Borgo a Mozzano. Seen sitting in the audience this evening were other musicians from the area. The word is out!
Full article, more images and a small MP3 file here
Perchè a Barga non è ancora disponibile l'internet veloce... quante volte ci siamo fatti questa domanda?! Bene ora cerchiamo di fare qualcosa di concreto perchè anche qui attivino questo servizio che ora mai è indispensabile. Questa è una specie di petizione online che permetterà di dare forza alla nostra protesta. Quindi, cosa aspetti... registrati!
Why is it that Barga still does not yet have a fast internet connection? How many times have we asked this question ? Well, now lets see if we can do something concrete and get this service activated. This is an on line petition which will reinforce our protest. So, what are you waiting for ... register !
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The above arrived in my email this morning from a group of people who are fed up with the fact that ASDL has arrived in more or less all the valley but still has not yet come up the hill to Barga .. here the bulk of people are still struggling along on slow dial up.
Repeated requests to telecom have so far resolved nothing. There was a petition sent round which was signed by many people a couple of months ago ..(copies can still be signed in the Barga Jazz Club) and now that is joined by this online petition.
Please help by registering on the ADSL a Barga site ... click here 
As part of the continuing process of twinning between the two cities of Barga and Hayange in France, the Harmonie Municipale de Hayange arrived in Barga Vecchia this afternoon as they prepare for a concert in the Teatro dei Differenti later on this week.
Full article and more images here
Full house at the Apecarica club last night with J AX and Space from the popular Italian band Article 31.... more than 1800 fans filled the "ape" and bounced and sang their way happily into the dawn.
Good to see that after a long winter, the Apecarica is once more back on track and rightfully taking its place as the premier music attraction of the area.
The barganews award winning photographer O'Connor was there as well last night .. he was supposed to be taking images of the black clad tattooed musical pair but looking at the images that he filed this morning at the barganews offices, it would seem that he had his camera pointing in a more coloured and completely different direction.
Per sabato 16 Aprile abbiamo in serbo una sorpresa continua ovviamente il fenomeno dell'open bar che sembra aver avuto un grande successo, ma arriva anche un'ospite importante nel panorama musicale italiano J AX cantante degli ARTICOLO 31 accompagnato dal vocalist SPACE ONE
Full article and more images here
Good bye to the council water man ... Dario Pierantoni, the geometra in the Uff.Technico in the Comune who has been looking after the water for Barga for the last 35 years has finally this morning handed in his sponge and taken up a well deserved retirement.
Here he is standing outside Aristo's bar and just after being presented with a signed print by Tullio Bonuccelli
Norbert Brainin - Violinist and leader of the Amadeus String Quartet
Christopher Driver and Anne Inglis Monday April 11, 2005
The Guardian
Photo: Garry Weaser
The violinist and leader of the Amadeus String Quartet Norbert Brainin, who has died of cancer aged 82, was a soloist who seldom played solo, a natural autocrat who loved an argument, and a Viennese who found his home, career and friends in London.
The Amadeus ran from its debut at Dartington in 1947 when it was first known as the "Brainin" Quartet, until the death in 1987 of his close friend, Peter Schidlof, who played viola in the group. Brainin had first met Schidlof when they were both briefly interned during the second world war in Shropshire. Schidlof was transferred to an internment camp on the Isle of Man, where he in turn met second violinist Siegmund Nissel. But Brainin and Schidlof kept in touch, and with Nissel became pupils of Max Rostal.
Just after the war it was through the connection with Rostal, with whom violinist Suzanne Rosza also studied, that they met her friend and later her husband, the talented young cellist Martin Lovett. All four of the future Amadeus found themselves playing together for the first time in the chamber orchestra that Rostal directed.
As a child in Vienna, Brainin was given a quarter-sized violin for his seventh birthday, a present inspired by the Viennese debut of the 13-year-old Yehudi Menuhin. Brainin had an instant rapport with the instrument, and he never considered a career other than one devoted to the violin. His teachers included Riccardo Odnoposoff (leader of the Vienna Philharmonic), Salomon Auber and Rosa Hochmann-Rosenfeld, who managed to convey her love of chamber music to Brainin and also effect a valuable introduction to Carl Flesch, who was then teaching in London.
By 1938 Brainin had lost both his father and mother, and so, with his siblings, was supported by his uncles. A branch of their furrier business had opened in London's Bond Street, and this proved a useful connection when it came to leaving Austria. With the political instability intensifying, he and his family left Vienna for England, and in 1939 Brainin started lessons with Flesch. He went to boarding school near Southend, but was given permission to concentrate on the violin. He played for various refugee organisations, and, still in his teens, gathered plenty of early concert experience.
During the war, once out of internment, Brainin worked as a machine tool fitter as well as playing in various small concerts, a life that intensified postwar with performances and soirées in private houses. Brainin still nurtured his ideal of becoming a soloist, and entered and won the gold medal in the Carl Flesch competition in 1946.
Part of the prize was a performance at the Albert Hall; he chose the Beethoven concerto, which he performed in January 1948 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. But he was gradually becoming immersed in chamber music, trios with cellist William Pleeth and Edmund Rubbra, for instance, with Rosza and other members of the nascent string quartet. The idea of creating a lasting group was formed, and the four accepted an invitation from Imogen Holst to perform at Dartington in 1947. Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst, founders of Dartington, sent Brainin off to leading dealers WE Hill & Sons, where he chose a violin made by Pietro Guarneri of Venice, for which they paid.
For a quarter of a century, the group was unsurpassed, technically and musically. Their debut at the Wigmore Hall in 1947 had queues stretching round the block and it opened many doors. The British Council set up trips to Europe, and after some hesitation the group decided to go to Germany.
Each German region had its own radio station, and each wanted to build its own library of recordings. This exposure led to requests for concerts on the continent and then, in 1953, the all-important invitation to go to America, followed by a world tour in 1954. This was the pattern for nearly 40 years, with few rests in between. In their last season, 1986-87, their schedule was typical, with visits to Germany, the US, Argentina and Italy.
Recording contracts were numerous and included their core repertory, Beethoven (they were in the middle of re-recording the late Beethoven when Schidlof died), Mozart and Schubert, and numerous collaborations with friends and colleagues, such as their celebrated Schubert String Quintet with William Pleeth and later Robert Cohen.
In their later years the Amadeus were matched or even surpassed as changes of professional style and public taste flowed past them. But their sonority, which Brainin imagined and kept in his mind from the first Mozart quartet he played as a young child, became the benchmark for two generations of players and listeners.
Brainin and his colleagues had a rather tenuous connection with composers of their own century. Even Bartok, whose six quartets they played magnificently, had died before the group's formation. The Amadeus knew what they liked and shone in what they knew, notably Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. They seldom strayed even as far as the Second Viennese School.
Brainin was the instinctive child in his jokes, vehemences, appetites (including football - he would practise in front of a televised match with the sound turned down) and accidents. His absent-mindedness was legendary. He once walked on to the platform to play leaving his Guarneri in the green room, and it took him at least a year to recover from the day when he got into the driving seat of his car and sat on the little finger of his left hand with all his roly-poly weight. Nevertheless, in serious mood he would talk the hind legs off a dromedary.
In the early years of the Amadeus, rehearsals were "bedlam", according to Imogen Holst, and 20 years later he delighted an interviewer by insisting that "democracy" means nothing unless it is something more than the sum of counting votes. In an interview in The Strad published in 1998, Brainin expanded on the idea of argument to serve the musical score: "For a group to whom this is a life's work, everything that happens within the quartet is life and death. You argue about the music and personal matters. When something isn't resolved, you can't carry the member who isn't of the same opinion. You have to argue."
Max Rostal thought that Norbert could have stood on his head and still played beautifully. Those who remember his playing of Mozart, such as the cycle of violin sonatas or the Sinfonia Concertante with Schidlof, know that Brainin's variety and delicacy were a foil to the homogeneity which small group psychology sets up over time - the Beethovenian "Es muss sein" (It must be), arrived at by bar-by-bar decisions during their 40-year quadrilateral "marriage".
The leader of any string quartet embarking upon a Beethoven cycle has to learn and play harder notes than the same composer's violin concerto, extended for about 10 hours' worth of music, and at the same time incorporate in the music the architectonic impetus and understanding expected of a conductor in a Mahler cycle. Brainin, more than anyone else in his time, made it seem effortless and faithful to the composer.
He celebrated his 80th birthday with a concert at the Wigmore Hall in which he played.
Brainin was married to Katinka Kottow (born in Prussia) and they had one daughter, Ann.
Norbert Brainin, violinist, born March 12 1923; died April 10 2005
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Norbert was a resident in Barga for many years and was given honorary citizenship of Barga recently for his services to music.
Look out the Italian bloggers are coming up from behind! The needle has started to swing over in favour of the Italian language as more and more people are discovering the blogging community on barganews.
Please welcome Il Polemica, La Vigna Di Gragnano, the new blog from L'osteria, the apecarica blog and the latest arrival: the sexiest person in the Tuscany ... "Creme".
...and there are still more to come!
Click here for the full list of the new barganews bloggers
One of those strange jokes that spring plays every now and again meant that todays weather included near freezing conditions and rain but this did not dampen the spirits in Piazza Angelio this afternoon as friends and visitors gathered for the opening of the L'osteria.
barganews wishes Linda and Riccardo all the luck in their new adventure.
More images can be found here
Stories about Giorgio have appeared on barganews a few times ... he and his loud studio in Barga Vecchia are difficult to ignore .....
"Giorgio Cella is one of the new generation of artists now working in studios inside Barga Vecchia. It is almost impossible to miss his studio as you walk past for the riot of colour from his twisted contorted figures under pressure and also because of the non stop music that he plays in the background while he works. Everybody knows when Giorgio is in residence or not."
"It has to be said the irony is not one of the most used or even understood concepts in Barga. It is either brushed off at worst as "sarcasm" or at best a half understood vague blanket term such as "english humour" This morning a piece of paper in a studio window caught the attention and brought forth wails of laughter as the irony behind it bubbled to the surface. Giorgio, a painter who has his studio in Barga Vecchia has put up in his window the following note "Italian Spoken "
This time he makes the pages of barganews for a different reason.
Giorgio Cella has recently become Dott. Giorgio Cella as he has passed his degree and become Doctor Cella.
His large thesis was written on the subject of Dante's Divina Commedia with special emphasis on illustration from 1300 to today. Full article and more images are here
no 1 on the excite MP3 search engine for the word "sardegna"
There was a lot of movement on barganews last month. By a lot I mean a huge amount of data, more than 25 GB during the month of March. This increase in traffic has in part been due to all the interest in the barganews bloggers who are now filling up the front page with their daily stories and images but when I checked on the servers just who was going where on the site. There were one or two suprises ... not least of which was the interest being shown around the world for a song which has been sitting more or less undiscovered on the site for the past 5 years.
Search engines have started to pick up on it and it was downloaded no fewer than 78 times on just one day last week.
Sardegna Tu by Federico Occhioni has woken up from its long slumber and is now starting to be played across the internet .... and remember, you heard it here first.
Federico was contacted by barganews to see what his reaction was to this flurry of activity after such a long wait .... his reply was:
"dopo il successo di critica, il successo di pubblico: è la migliore consacrazione per un artista come Occhioni. Grazie a tutti quelli che lo hanno sostenuto in questi anni."
Judge for yourself by downloading an MP3 file of his song here
Artist of the Month for April is Richard Clare.
In 2002 English landscape artist Richard Clare and his family came to Barga just for a holiday, but the magical beauty of Barga seduced them into buying a property there!
Richard and his family now try to get over from wet and cold Saddleworth in Northern England as often as possible (at least a month in the summer to guarantee them some sunshine). With his box of paints, Richard can often be seen wandering around Barga’s alleyways sketching and painting plein-air. He is currently working on several large canvasses for an exhibition with two other English artists and three Italian artists as a cultural art exchange with Liguria and North Yorkshire. The touring exhibition will be shown in July, August and September this year in La Spezia, Sestri Levante and Carro. Full article and more images can be found here
The English based choir, The St. Martin's Singers called in on Barga today to sing a series of songs taking full advantage of the incredible accoustics inside the Duomo.
Afterwards they relaxed at the other cultural center of Barga - Aristo's bar.
After a small amount of Aristo's famous red wine the need to sing came once more to the surface and the choir assembled to give an impromptu performance in the Piazza.
The choir is hoping to return sometime later this summer so that more than just the handful of regulars as Aristo's can enjoy their soaring close knit harmonies
More images and a small MP3 file of the choir singing in the piazza can be found here
Reflecting the general results right across Italy, the Center Left has taken the board ... full results here
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Daily Images from the award winning photographer O'Connor here on barganews.com moves into the month of March.
There seem to be less images this month. Word on the street is that O'Connor has been heavily involved in another photographic project which has been taking up most of his time and energy.
Rumours of an forthcoming exhibition based upon images of womens underwear? have been denied by staff in the barganews offices but still the stories circulate around Barga Vecchia. You faithful readers of barganews.com will of course be the first to know if there is any truth in there to be found.
Images from March can be seen here
The long awaited concert by the Barga blues band Jack's Pack was stopped this evening after only three numbers as the sound of the bells at the Duomo nearby gave the news that the Pope had died. The concert was stopped as a sign of respect.
More images and a small MP3 file of the moment that the news of his death filtered across the stage and the music came to a grinding halt can be found here
Jazz at the Barga Jazz CLub with the Sauro Donati Quartet
Sauro Donati - chitarra
Simone Venturi - pianoforte
Franchino Mariani - batteria
Luca Franchini - contrabbasso
More images plus a small MP3 file here
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