A Gentle, Shy Antichrist
I grew up in a very Catholic Italian family. I spent an entire life pretending to be a good altar boy. Actually, I’m still pretending. Please, don’t tell my parents I play this show. A stand-up show about emotional conflicts. Daniele Fabbri is not so interested in God or church, but he tells jokes and […]
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Cannonball
The Florence Theatre Company presents Cannonball, an irreverent new drama making its Edinburgh Fringe debut following the company’s sell-out production of America at the Chelsea Theatre. Cannonball follows the young and disillusioned Andrea, taking a darkly comic look at his journey into embracing – or, more likely, rejecting – maturity as he finds his relationship […]
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Manuel Magrini @ Aberdeen International Youth Festival (AIYF)
Manual Magrini became interested in jazz at an early age which inspired him to study it further at the Conservatoire F. Morlacchi, and continued to work with several groups and performers in concerts in Italy and abroad. Manuel won the Fara Music festival prize for ‘Best Soloist’ and ‘Best Group’ with his Trio and won […]
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David Milligan / Enrico Zanisi Trio @ Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival
David Milligan Solo / Enrico Zanisi Trio Two of the most sensitive pianists in Europe. The Scotsman mines Celtic and Nordic roots tocreate extraordinary beauty. The Italian is a romanticist of often breath-taking lyricism. For further information and tickets please visit: www.edinburghjazzfestival.com
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Fergus McCreadie Trio / Manuel Magrini Solo @ Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival
Fergus McCreadie Trio / Manuel Magrini Solo A phenomenal technician for his age, Fergus is progressing so rapidly its hard to keep track of his artistry. Originally inspired by Oscar Peterson, he now ranges across the entire jazz piano tradition, and playing new music of real substance. His band infuse everything with huge […]
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Alessandro Lanzoni Trio @ Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival
Alessandro Lanzoni Trio Still in his mid-20s, Florentine pianist, Lanzoni is a shooting star of the Italian jazz scene. Extraordinarily gifted, with a marvellous touch, he makes music of great lyricism and beauty. His roots are in the Bill Evans tradition, but his Trio is making music for 2017 audiences – full of wonder and […]
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Rumba de Bodas @ Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival
Rumba de Bodas Their high-octane, gypsy-swing travels from latina to swing, balcanica to reggae, soul to folk into an ever-changing musical mix. From starting life as a loose collective in the backstreet music bars of Bologna, they’re now an international phenomenon packing out Festivals of all musical styles. The band that everyone loves return after […]
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The Challenge by Yuri Ancarani @ Edinburgh International Film Festival
Italian visual artist Yuri Ancarani’s debut feature is documentary as exotic objet d’art. (Variety) In the West, falconry was a prevailing passion of the medieval aristocracy, but its prestige continues undiminished in contemporary Arab culture. A tradition that today allows its practitioners to keep a close rapport with the desert, despite their predominantly urban lifestyle. […]
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Ensemble Sangineto @ Fête de la Musique
L’Istituto Italiano di Cultura is very pleased to celebrate with l’Institut français a very international Fête de la Musique, France’s national celebration of music every year on June 21st with the duo Adriano and Caterina Sangineto. Children’s Harp Workshop [6.00PM]by Ensemble SanginetoA hands-on, fascinating exploration and explanation of the harp and the bowed psalter […]
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Forgetting: A Forgotten Issue?
Forgetting: A Forgotten Issue? An Experimental Psychology Society Workshop. The talks for the day will be presented by some of the international leaders in the study of human forgetting, covering healthy young adults, cognitive ageing, the impact of focal and degenerative brain damage, and the interaction between human and digital memory. 11.00 Sergio […]
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