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04/29/2011 1:55 pm

Chance meeting on the beach in Scotland

A chance meeting on a beach in Scotland, once again shows just how small is this world as Paolo Marroni from Barga was walking along the Portobello in Edinburgh with his son Gianmarco and girlfriend, Jaqueline and he thought he saw a figure which he recognised… upon going closer it turns out to...

01/02/2011 7:59 am

Hamish Moore – Aspettare e Sperare !

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...

12/28/2010 12:33 am

One Sunday in the Year – the shifting of a dragon

As regular readers will shortly find out there are some earth shaking changes just about to happen to barganews, more of which will become self-evident in the New Year but as we enter the final week of 2010, there are still one or two loose ends which need to be tied up, desks cleared and cupboards...

05/27/2010 1:36 am

Jim Gilchrist article in the Scotsman

We don’t know whether they much appreciated it, but during the mid-18th century, the good people of Haddington were roused at five o’clock every summer morning by the town piper and drummer doing their rounds. It was a familiar enough dawn ritual in many a Scottish Lowland town. In Haddington’s...

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...