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- country:Italy
- style(s):Folk
- label:Visage Music
- type:Large Ensemble
- gender:male, female
- instrumentation:vocal, percussion, guitar
- artist posted by:CultureWorks
Line up
- Alessio Lega (vocals, guitar)
- Andreino Salvadori (guitar, arrangements)
- Elena Ledda (vocals)
- Gigi Biolcati (percussion)
- Ginevra di Marco (vocals)
- Lucilla Galeazzi (vocals, guitar)
- Riccardo Tesi (diatonic accordion, musical direction)
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BELLA CIAO is historically known as the show that marked the beginning of the Italian folk revival. It was the first of a series of didactic concerts created by the Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano, which brought the rich heritage of folk songs collected between 1954 and 1964 to a wider audience. From its very first performance in June 1964 at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, which aroused violent disputes, comes the work of all musicians who nowadays with great success bring Italian Folk music to stages all over the world.
Fifty years later the greatest show of the Italian folk revival has been rearranged with a formidable cast, consisting of some of the finest and most renowned Italian folk musicians of our time: Lucilla Galeazzi, Elena Ledda, Alessio Lega and others have come together to revive the old heritage with contemporary influences, directed and orchestrated by accordion player Riccardo Tesi, one of the most brilliant and rigorous protagonists of today’s world music scene.
Today, the old partisan and labourers’ songs of BELLA CIAO do not only retain all their expressive power, but they have acquired a new urgency in the globalized world for their values of liberty, peace and civil rights. BELLA CIAO is a lesson of democracy that directly originates from the people. A historical narration unravelling through music, sounds and words, carried by the most important voices of Italian social and political singing of the past 30 years.