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Elizabeth Roth [email protected] www.rotharts.com A land to love is a Ligurian tourist slogan, and that is what “Suoni dai mondi liguri” (Sounds from the Ligurian World) is—a music to love! Folk World I Liguriani is a five-member band from Italy’s northwest, the region stretch- ing from the French Riviera to Tuscany, bordering Piedmont and Emilia. The eclectic repertoire of I LIguriani includes traditional Italian folk music and political ballads, dance music of the Appenines, an emigration ballad about a 1906 tragedy at sea, and a classical piece by Niccoló Paganini. The band play melodies and ballads, both traditional and composed by the musicians, from Liguria and neighboring regions, including dances like mazurkas, sbrandi and monferrina from the Piedmont and Scottish waltzes from France. The band’s accomplished musicianship and infectious joy in the playing of these tunes has won I Liguriani acclaim throughout Europe. With Fabio Rinaudo on Central French musette pipes, Fabio Biale on violin and voice, Michel Balatti on flute, Filippo Gambetta on accordion, and Claudio De Angeli on guitar. The band released its first album Suoni Dai Mondi Liguri in 2011 (Felmay), (Sounds of the LIgurian World), and received great acclaim from the European press. They have toured with great success in Spain, Germany and Italy and appeared at Celtic Connections in Glasgow in 2012. The band has collaborated on a number of theatre projects in Italy and has been heard on radio broad- casts in Australia, Canada and Spain. Read individual bios… Stamattina si va all’assalto Boghe - Michel Ballati Brilliant…subtle… accomplished…passion…vitality… beautiful and delicious! O Gorizia tu sei maledetta U Garollu - Fabio Rinaudo Calissun/Piva di San Dalmazio Tiribi Taraba Photos by Alice Ellena I Liguriani Tour Schedule

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A land to love is a Ligurian tourist slogan, and that is what “Suoni dai mondi liguri” (Sounds from the Ligurian World) is—a music to love!— Folk World

I Liguriani is a five-member band from Italy’s northwest, the region stretch-ing from the French Riviera to Tuscany, bordering Piedmont and Emilia.

The eclectic repertoire of I LIguriani includes traditional Italian folk music and political ballads, dance music of the Appenines, an emigration ballad about a 1906 tragedy at sea, and a classical piece by Niccoló Paganini. The band play melodies and ballads, both traditional and composed by the musicians, from Liguria and neighboring regions, including dances like mazurkas, sbrandi and monferrina from the Piedmont and Scottish waltzes from France. The band’s accomplished musicianship and infectious joy in the playing of these tunes has won I Liguriani acclaim throughout Europe. With Fabio Rinaudo on Central French musette pipes, Fabio Biale on violin and voice, Michel Balatti on flute, Filippo Gambetta on accordion, and Claudio De Angeli on guitar.

The band released its first album Suoni Dai Mondi Liguri in 2011 (Felmay), (Sounds of the LIgurian World), and received great acclaim from the European press. They have toured with great success in Spain, Germany and Italy and appeared at Celtic Connections in Glasgow in 2012. The band has collaborated on a number of theatre projects in Italy and has been heard on radio broad-casts in Australia, Canada and Spain.

Read individual bios…

Stamattina si va all’assaltoBoghe - Michel Ballati

Brilliant…subtle…

accomplished…passion…vitality…

beautiful and delicious!

O Gorizia tu sei maledettaU Garollu - Fabio Rinaudo

Calissun/Piva di San Dalmazio Tiribi Taraba

Photos by Alice Ellena

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Fabio Rinaudo (bagpipes - musette Bourbonnaise) | The bagpipe is Fabio’s ‘instrument of choice’ (World Music Magazine, Italy). An accomplished multi- instrumentalist, Fabio plays various kinds of bagpipes, from northern Italian pipes to uilleann pipes, musette Bourbonnaise and Scottish smallpipes. He has studied the uilleann pipes of Ireland for more than twenty years and as a founder and member of the Birkin Tree, has played them all over Italy, Europe and in Ireland. The Birkin Tree has recorded four albums: “Continental Reel” (1995), “A Cheap Present” (1998) , “3 (three)” (2001) and “Virginia” (2010) receiving wide acclaim from the public and the Italian, European and American press. Fabio has also collaborated in performance with Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill, the piper Liam O’Flynn which whom he has studied, singer Niamh Parsons and the harpist Grainme Hambly among others. In 2008 Fabio toured Italy as a musical guest of The Chieftains.

In addition to traditional Irish music, Fabio is dedicated to the study of the traditional music of northern and central France and Italian early music, and especially to the French bagpipes: the musette bourbonnaise.

He was a founding member of “Ensemble del doppio Bordone” with whom he has played in hundreds of concerts (Italy, England, Scotland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and Spain ) and recorded two CD’s. He collaborates with the noted early music group “Ensemble Micrologus” with whom he plays in important music festivals throughout Italy He has performed as a soloist with the Orchestra of the Paganini Conservatory in Genoa at the Teatro Carlo Felice performing works by Peter Maxwell Davies and has been featured in more than forty recordings (traditional, early and pop music.)

Fabio has also collaborated on television with well-known Italian singer-song-writers including Angelo Branduardi, Riccardo Cocciante and Giorgio Conte.

Fabio is the president and artistic director of Corelli Musica, an agency devoted to the promotion of acoustic music and, in particular, ethnic music from all parts of the world as well as classical music, blues and jazz.

Filippo Gambetta (accordion) | Filippo began studying the accordion at age thirteen under the guidance of Riccardo Tesi. He has collaborated with Max Manfredi, with the group Echo Art, the Orchestra Regionale Ligure, Fretted Instrument, directed by Carlo Aonzo, with the Canadian violinist Oliver Schroer and the American, Sandra Wong, nyckelharpa player, with Vincenzo Caglioti and Remy Boniface in a trio of accordions and with his father Beppe Gambetta on numerous tours.

Filippo studied the clarinet for three years at the Conservatorio Paganini di Genova. In 2000 he made the album “Stria” and in 2003 “Pria Goaca”, both

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for the label Felmay. In 2001, he represented the ‘Italian Folk Alliance’ at the Alliance meeting in Vancouver, won the first prize in the Green Age Festival and second prize in the Kaustinen Folk Festival in Finland. He has performed at numerous folk festivals including: Edmonton, Festival d’Eté, Calgary, Vancou-ver festival, Winnipeg , Biberach musikfruhlings, Roots and Blues Festival, Folk Festival in Aarhus (Denmark) , Lithos (Syracuse), Emmas (Olbia), Acoustic Paths (Pistoia), Folk Routes (Trento), Italic tribes (Bertinoro), and Music in the Castles of Liguria.

He has composed and performed music for theater for il Teatro della Tosse and il Teatro Modena of Genoa. He has collaborated with the dancer Aline Nari (Sosta Palmizi) and Katreen Tufano (David Parker Bang Group), with whom he devel-oped the show “Halloween” (for Auditorium Montale - Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa). He is dedicated to teaching both in Italy and abroad.

Fabio Biale (vocals, fiddle) | Fabio began studying the violin at the age of six, attended the Conservatorio Paganini di Genova, and joined the Youth Orchestra performing in Italy and abroad. He has actively collaborated with the “Camerata delli Musici Savonensi” which gave him the opportunity to play ancient and baroque music.

He attended classes at the C.P.M., Milan’s professional music center, one of the best schools of contemporary music in Italy, where he studied theory, harmony and jazz improvisation. Fabio dedicated himself to the study of the traditional music of Northern Italy as well as ‘swing manouche’ (gypsy jazz a la Django Reinhardt) which led him to participate in other bands: “Amici di Django Rein-hardt” and “I Luf.” Fabio is an accomplished singer, songwriter and an arranger, and a multi-instrumentalist: beside the fiddle, he also plays guitar, piano and bodhran.

A sought-after collaborator in Italy, Fabio has played with a diverse group of well-known musicians and artists in the Italian folk, jazz and singer-songwriter world. In addition to the groups mentioned above, he has worked with Zibba Al-malibre, Birkin Tree , Tonino Caroltone, Bunna, Federico Zampaglione and Roy Paci among many others and has arranged and recorded with most of them.

Michel Balatti (flute) | Michel graduated with honors from the Conservatorio Paganini di Genova. He was the winner of competitions both as a solo perform-er and in chamber music and performed several times as a soloist with orches-tra. In 1998, after attending a concert by the Italian-based Irish band, Birkin Tree, he began a serious study of traditional Irish music and the simple system wooden flute.

After playing in other groups, including “Mistral” and “Common Mor”, he was

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invited to be part of the Birkin Tree in 2001, with whom he has performed in many concerts in Italy and abroad and with whom he also collaborated on four CD’s. In 2003 he decided to leave his career as a classical musician and devote himself entirely to the wooden flute and Irish music and moved to County Clare in Ennis, Ireland.

In the latter part of Michel’s time in Ireland he successfully participated in the local musical community, playing not only in sessions, but also in concerts and ceilis. In May 2004, he returned to Italy, and was invited to work with the accor-dion player and composer Filippo Gambetta with whom he toured in Canada to the Vancouver Folk Festival, Mission Folk and other festivals as well as recording live concerts for the CBC.

Michel has collaborated with musicians such as Martin Hayes, Dennis Cahill, Niamh Parsons, Tola Custy, Cyril O’Donoghue and The Chieftains. Over the years he has performed in Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Turkey, Denmark, Bel-gium, United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada and the United States.

Claudio De Angeli (acoustic guitar) | The Genoese guitarist Claudio De Angeli has devoted years to the study and performance of traditional and acoustic music.

Former student of Armando Corsi, with whom he has deepened the study of harmony and improvisation, and Beppe Gambetta with whom he studied the technical finger picking and open tunings, Claudio collaborates on a regular basis with the young accordion player Filippo Gambetta, with whom he recorded two albums for the Felmay label (“Stria” in 2000 and “Pria Goaca” in 2002). He has performed at numerous festivals with Filippo in Canada, the U.S, Germany, Finland and Italy including Lithos, Edmonton folk festival, Festival d’Eté, Cal-gary Folk Festival, Vancouver Folk Festival, Winnipeg Folk Music Festival, border crossings, Biberach Musikfruhlings, Roots and Blues Festival and ArtisticaMente.

Claudio is a songwriter and composer and is dedicated to traditional Irish music as well as the traditional music of Italy. He is part of the group Ca Reel On and collaborates with the Birkin Tree.

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Songlines | They play with passion and vitality, with a fairly eclectic reper-toire that matches the spirit of the land and its people. — Songlines

fRoots | They power through Italian dance tunes like they are some sort of latter-day Mediterranean Bothy Band. — fRoots

Folkworld | This is livelier…just more Mediterranean if you like. It is per-formed with passion and strong emotions. — Folkworld

Folkworld, 2011 | Liguria, the Italian Riveria, is a region in northern Italy sandwiched between the Mediterranean sea and the Alps and Apennines mountains. It has been a popular tourist destination for a hundred years, of-fering beautiful scenery and delicious food. Most people don’t know, however that there also is some beautiful and delicious traditional music, which is the missing link between south eastern France and Italy’s Piedmont and Tuscany. The Ligurians are singer and violinist Fabio Biale, flautist Michel Balatti, bag-piper Fabio Rinaudo (Central French musette pipes), accordionist Filippo Gam-betta, and acoustic guitarist Claudio De Angeli. Their mission and concept is traditional music of Liguria and music written in the traditional vein. I’m some-times reminded of and I like it as much as the music of B.E.V. from the neigh-bouring area of Emilia and Veneto, but generally this is livelier and more gay, just more mediterranean if you like. It is performed with passion and strong emotions. There also is a thoughful and political edge at times. “Stamattina si va all’assalto” is a song from World War I, arranged by Liguriani for a theatre piece. “O Gorizia tu sei maledetta” relates to the bloody battle over Gorizia (Görz/Gorica). “Sutta a chi Tucca” is a Ligurian partisan song set to a Russian tune. Deeply moving are “Il tragico naufragio del vapore Sirio”, an emigration ballad relating to a ship accident in 1906, and “Tiribi Taraba”, a popular Geno-ese song and tongue twister written by Piero Parodi in 1970. A Land to love is a Ligurian tourist slogan, and that is what “Suoni dai mondi liguri” is - a music to love! — Tom Keller, www.folkworld.eu

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