A new look to the blogs on barganews... we have been experimenting with a new system to blog up daily articles onto the front page and now, finally, it is ready to roll. We have moved across from using software running on the blogger.com servers to using software running on our own barganews.com servers. This should mean that the whole system should be running a good deal faster and it can now

The 7th night time Burraco tournament took place this evening in Barga Giardino with 50 tables set out for the contestants to pit their wits against each other and against lady luck with a pack of cards. Last year the tournament took place down at the Barga swimming pool and as we said in that article, the organisers expected more people to take part in this growing community activity ... they

Jan-Christoph Homann – musiche di Brahms, Chopin, Liszt A conclusione del Festival OperaBarga 2005 torna anche questíanno, sulla scorta del successo della prima edizione, la rassegna PianoBarga 2005 (26-30 luglio) che vedrà esibirsi giovani talenti del pianoforte, già vincitori di importanti concorsi pianistici. Una piccola rassegna di altissimo livello che ci permetterà di ascoltare cinque

Exhibition of paintings by Francesco Vivenzio at the Chiostro Palazzo Balduini in Barga Vecchia will remain open until the 27th July The exhibition is called "Paesaggi Tra Reale e Fantastico" - Landscapes between real and imagined. His exhibition last year can be seen here

The Latin Group brought the curtain down on the last evening of the 10 day long Festa delle Piazzette 2005. The Piazza Angelio can now once more revert to the quiet corner of Barga Vecchia that it was a couple of weeks ago.

Celebrations for St Christopher the Patron Saint of Barga took place today with the "San Cristoforo d'oro" awards ceremony and procession around the streets of Barga More images and full article here

The Mr Pitiful Soul Band blew into Barga last night and set the place alight with their mixture of footstomping R+B and swinging soul. A small MP3 file of the music from Mr. Pitiful can be downloaded here plus another small MP3 file here of special guest star Silvano Togneri (the Silvano Togneri outsider musician site is here) Trip down memory lane .... Mr Pitiful in Barga 2001 Mr

Brahms and Mendelssohn in the Teatro dei Differenti this evening from the Ensemble Le Musiche. violini: Simone Bernardini, Hugues Borsarello, Catherine Ribes, Frederic Preusser, Gia Yashvili, Anastasia Pylatyuk viole: Eve Wikert, Annette Von Hehn violoncelli: Ulrike Hoffman, Rouven Schirmer Download the complete Felix Mendelssohn - Estratto dell'Ottetto per archi in MP3 format played in the

The exhibition of the still life paintings of Romeo Ruggi opened this afternoon at the Scuola Materna in Barga Giardino. The exhibition will be open until the end of this month.

Opening celebration this morning for the re-modeled and re-surfaced park to the left of the main gate into Barga Vecchia: the Parco delle Vittoria