The 19th edition of "Toscana Music Pool" is set to start, and it is, as usual, a varied and substantial number of musical events in our region. The event is an intriguing Chinese boxes game, with one festival containing another one and so on.

Faithful to its official definition - contemporary popular music in Tuscany - jazz and world music are masters with prestigious names on the billboard. Among jazz musicians, shine the stars of Peter Erskine the 22nd of March at the teatro Giotto in Vicchio; Carla Bley , Mike Stern and even Pat Metheny. In the context of frontier music we find appointments that cannot be missed like those with stirring Greek singer Diamanda Galas, Siberian Sainko Namtchylak (15th of March at the teatro Nazionale in Quarrata) and the Macedonians of the Kocani Orchestra.

An important space was also rightly given to Italian musicians, first Rava, Fresu (in the picture) and Bollani. And precisely from the latter's inexhaustible creativity the three most transversal events that place: "Abbassa la tua Radio", a homage to Italian song of the thirties and forties and  "L'ultima Lira", festive musical show on the defunct currency at the teatro Politeama in Prato the 20th February). Two shows where names like Peppe Servillo, Antonella Ruggiero, Irene Grandi and more are involved.

An event to follow with great attention, also owing to contained ticket costs, seeing the quality of the cast, which go from 8 to 15 euro, Metheny excluded naturally.

February.2002

Music Pool