Brownie Uniforms Around The World

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• 2 November 2010, at 18>-concert meeting with Deborah Kooperman

• November 23 2010, ore 18>-concert meeting with Angelo 'Leadbelly' Rossi

L'idea

«All you can write is what you see.»

Il punto di partenza di Storie Acustiche potrebbe essere semplicemente questo, un frammento rubato da un dialogo con la musica durato per tutta una vita, quella di Woody Guthrie. La sua storia personale era iniziata nel 1912, in Oklahoma, segnata da fatalità, disgrazie familiari e da un inquieto bisogno di osservare il mondo per capirlo. Negli anni della great depression e del dust bowl , rimasto solo, aveva percorso con la sua chitarra la Route 66 accettando qualsiasi piccolo lavoro, componendo e suonando, fino al 1937, anno in cui aveva difficoltosamente raggiunto Los Angeles e trovato lavoro presso una radio locale. Da quel momento la sua storia è diventata la storia di molti (pensiamo in modo particolare a This Land is Your Land ), his voice has been able to tell the dust of the roads, fatigue and change in subsequent years, even reaching New York. In short, "I write what I see, what I saw, what I hope to see, somewhere in a faraway place."

Stories , then, as the song is always the story, is bound to screw events, speaks of continuity and disruption, and the clear intuition, realizing an individual dimension that is never closed in itself, but designed to be metabolized by other known and constantly.

Acoustic , in particular, an attitude narrative that unfolds in the best possible vibration of the strings and voice, in the alchemy of wood and water, preventing further mediation. Tales acoustic paths that cross two deep, that of folk and that of blues, and two lives that this has much to do.

If an artist writes what he sees, if it sounds that collected the stories, then write and includes the history and its transformations, in one way or another.

Guests

Koopermann Deborah was born in upstate New York, from a farming family with a passion for music. In the 60s he moved to Greenwich Village and began to sing, accompanying himself on guitar, even in places frequented by the then unknown Bob Dylan, Richie Evans, Jose Feliciano and John Sebastian. Arrives in Italy in '68 with a scholarship to the Conservatory of Bologna, a city in which Frank Sinatra knows with whom he founded, together with other musicians, Osteria delle Dame. In the 70s he wrote their own songs and joins the tour by Lucio Dalla. Fingerpicking guitar, his repertoire ranges from folk to blues, from ballads to the typical sounds of traditional black and white American. Currently, in addition to present itself as a singer and guitarist, he directs the Choir of Woodstock Villafranca di Verona, directed a school of modern music and runs a shop tools music. His latest album is Yesterday Tomorrow 2006.

Angelo 'Leadbelly' Rossi born in the province of Varese, Gallarate. After the first musical in the '70s and '80s began to approach seriously the deep roots of the blues to understand it, do it right, and interpret it for Christmas. The collaboration with bluesman Larry Johnson has been instrumental to the tremendous human and musical value. Marine Department, editor of The Blues , defines "Alchemist", "for this singer, guitarist and harmonica player has been able to create a personal style of music that ended up being a quality brand. If you have lived together in his soul the British and American blues-rock of the '60s and the hypnotic boogie of John Lee Hooker, were the sounds of the hills of North Mississippi (used with humility and love in the numerous pilgrimages made in those areas) to provide the lifeblood by which Angelo has taken steps to merge the different languages, giving rise to that his down home blues still unique in Italy. "His latest album I Do not Want to take nothing with me when I 'm gone was published in 2006.

Tales

Deborah Kooperman - Wind Of War

Angelo 'Leadbelly' Rossi - No Good Rider

Meetings-concert will take place at the ' University of Verona, in' Classroom 2.1 , in collaboration with the Department of Art, Archaeology, History and Society.