The threatened bad weather kept way and the people just kept on coming. BargaJazz Festival 2008 off to a great start today with the sound of jazz right through the centro storico. There was no place where you could go this afternoon in Barga Vecchia where it was possible to not hear some live jazz music. Every single piazza had a different jazz band playing a different kind of jazz and to a different beat.Not even the Duomo, usually a quiet and cool place in the heat of August was free from the jazz beat. And if that was not enough there was a marching jazz band travelling through all of the narrow streets and piazzas just so that the message arrived home to one and all – this week Barga is thrown over to Jazz.
In the piazza were; Enojazz Quartet, The Rat Band, The Puppies, Aristodemo & Friends, Roberto Pinori Quartet, Saxophonia, Piero Orsi Quartet, Swing Pistols and the marching band – La Perugia Funking Band.
This evening a concert in the Teatro dei Differenti with the trumpeter Fabrizio Bosso with Alessandro Fabbri on drums, Milko Ambrogini on double bass and Stefano Onorati on piano.
And then to round the whole day off — the enojazz afterhours jam sessions which went on well into the early hours of the morning.
In amongst all that jazz a word must be said about the hour long concert that Nicolao Valiensi gave in the Duomo. There are two small films of this event at the end of this article. Both are worth watching to get a small idea of just what a special moment it was. He kept up a constant stream of harmonics and sounds bouncing around the walls of the Duomo and just when it looked as though he was about to fall into the “new-age-ambient-meditation- ommm-kind of sound he would throw a musical spanner into the works to keep everybody on their toes. Wonderful music – thank you Nicolao
Click on the link below to hear the sound of Barga Vecchia this afternoon as you move through the piazzas
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Come ogni anno il Festival vero e proprio si apre con “Barga IN Jazz” (La Festa del Jazz), che si svolgerà domenica 24 Agosto dalle ore 17,00. in ogni piazzetta del centro storico suonerà un
gruppo di jazz, i partecipanti di quest’anno saranno Enojazz Quartet, The Rat Band, The Puppies, Aristodemo & Friends, Roberto Pinori Quartet, Saxophonia, Piero Orsi Quartet, Swing Pistols.
Nella piazza del teatro sarà allestito uno spazio dedicato ai bambini con il Tombolone Musicale a cura dell’Associazione Manidoro… Itinerante per le carraie di Barga La Perugia Funking Band composta da 14 elementi. Nel duomo di Barga dalle ore 18 concerto per Eufonio e riverbero spaziale di Nicolao Valiensi. Sempre il 24 agosto il concerto della serata al Teatro dei Differenti vedrà protagonista il trombettista Fabrizio Bosso accompagnato da Alessandro Fabbri alla batteria, Milko Ambrogini al contrabbasso e Stefano Onorati al pianoforte.
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Rizzardi for president!