For four months, Folkstudio relives in Rome
For four months in Rome, the Folkstudio relives, the place founded by Harold Bradley and carried forward by Giancarlo Cesaroni. Starting from 7 February until the beginning of June the “Dusty rooms” review dedicated to the historic Roman local: twenty dates to the ancient Stamperia Rubatino, in the Testaccio district, between the songwriting songs, jazz, folk and free admission meetings.
At Folkstudio since 1961 artists such as Bob Dylan, Francesco De Gregori, Toquinho, Rosa Balistreri, Antonello Venditti, Paolo Hendel, Francesco Guccini, Piero Ciampi, Giovanna Marini, Simone Cristicchi and many others performed. A program, that of the review, which includes music, but also two appointments with the historical artists of the club led by Grazia di Michele, Ernesto Bassignano and Edoardo De Angelis and a final entitled “Ask what Folksitudo was – guest evening, Tales, songs, false flowers and real dreams ”by Enrico Deregibus. On that occasion the “dusty rooms 2025” awards will be awarded: emerging (folkstudio young prize) and established artists (folkstudio award dusty rooms).
The aim is to enhance and disseminate, today as then, quality music and encourage collaboration and artistic sharing in an era in which everything seems to start and end in an atmosphere of solitude and individualism.
Continue what was the mission of the place which, as Luciano Ceri, musical journalist and writer writes in the presentation brochure, “on the one hand confided in the quality of the artistic proposals and on the other in the belief of being able to give a visibility space to debutant artists or in any case often excluded from traditional show circuits, which instead found an audience, however contained, but always attentive, well arranged and above all curious to listen to something new and interesting. All this brought the fame of folkstudio well beyond national borders, and was customary, however surprising, that there was talk of Folksitudio not only in Italy, but also in Europe and the American continent “.
With American music, Folkstudio had a strong bond, as can be seen from the memory of the journalist, guitarist and ethnomusicologist Andrea Carpi in the opuscule that will be distributed every evening to the ancient Stamperia Rubatino: “(…) In my first visit to Folksitudio: C ‘It was a formation of the African American group of the Folksitudio Sinters with Harold Bradley, the founder of the restaurant, together with Archie Savage, Clebert Ford and the two brothers Hawkins, in a enthralling repertoire of Gospel, Spiritual and Blues; In the second part the Folksinger Janet Smith took over, who was a good guitarist and kept at the folkstudio of the free guitar laboratories, which I began to follow and where I met Luigi “Greek” De Gregori and “Chicca” Gobbi, the future wife of Francesco De Gregori . Janet was very good at teaching us the styles of the American revival, from fingerpicking to blues and guitar ragtime, to introduce pioneering arrangements of beatles songs “.
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