“Not Just Classical” music events in Florence

The Bastards Sons of Dioniso

29/01/10 – The Bastards Sons of Dioniso in Concerto at the  Auditorium Flog (presenting their first album “In stasi perpetua”); Melodic Punk.
The auditorium opens at 9:00 p.m.

info: www.flog.it

Elio e le Storie Tese

11/02/10 – Elio e le Storie Tese in “Bellimbusti in Tour” at the Teatro Verdi, Florence, playing the best of their repertoire based on their conviction that: “our time on this earth be made of continuous laughter, fits of laughter”, at 8:45 p.m.

info: www.bitconcerti.it
Teatro Verdi (Via Ghibellina 99/r , 50122, tel. +39(0)55212320 )

Spandau Ballet

03/03/10 – Spandau Ballet in Concert, at the Mandela Forum, 9:00 p.m.
The five members of the group are back together after 20 years (Tony Hadley, John Keeble, Gary Kemp, Martin Kempand Steve Norman officially announced their reunion aboard the HMS Belfast, a retired Royal Navy ship moored in the Thames where they held their memorable concert in the early ’eighties. 
 And, once again they are starting their world tour from HMS Belfast).

The Florence concert will feature numbers that made them famous, from Synth pop/dance of the early singles To Cut A Long Story Short and Chant No. 1 (I Don’t Need This Pressure On), to their great international hits True and Gold. With 25 million albums sold, 6 multi-platinum albums and 23 hit singles, this is going to be one of the biggest reunions ever.

info: www.bitconcerti.it
Mandela Forum (Viale Malta, 6
50137 Florence, tel. +39(0)55 678 841) 9:00 p.m.

Renzo Arbore

15/03/10 – Renzo Arbore and his orchestra in concert at the Teatro Verdi, 8:45 p.m. Renzo Arbore, a man who loves all music and nurtures great respect for the Canzone Napoletana Classica – classical Neapolitan song –  has fulfilled a dream: he established an orchestra of 15 musicians who are all great vocal and instrumental soloists (guitar, mandolin, accordion, piano, percussion and tamburelli), to revive and valorize Neapolitan songs in Italy and abroad by performing the classics of a repertoire that risked becoming part of a forgotten past.

info: www.bitconcerti.it
Teatro Verdi (Via Ghibellina 99/r, 50122, tel. +39(0)55212320)

Anoushka Shankar

27/03/10 –  Anoushka Shankar is carrying on with her father’s – the great Ravi – legacy and will be performing a live concert in the Church of Santo Stefano al Ponte Vecchio Florence on 27 March 2010 (10:30 p.m.) with her band of Indian musicians. She will play traditional Indian music for sitar, revealing her incredible  melodic and rhythmic virtuosity, accompanied by tabla, bansuri, flute and tanpura.

Anoushka Shankar will be performing in Florence for the opening of the Settimana di Musica Sacra dal Mondo, the week dedicated to sacred music from around the world.

Anoushka is the daughter of Ravi Shankar, master of sitar who taught Beatle George Harrison to play the instrument, and stepsister of Norah  Jones. She began playing the sitar when she was 9 years old and made her debut in a New Delhi theater at the age of 12, then she played in concerts and made recordings with her father.
Anoushka was the first woman to play at the Ramakrishna Centre in Calcutta, the first Indian woman to perform at the Grammy Awards Ceremony, and in 1998 was the first woman to receive the House of Commons Shield. Her album “Rise” was nominated for a Grammy. Just 28 years old, Anoushka is one of the outstanding names in World Music and one of the finest interpreters of classical Indian music.

Info and bookings: Accademia San Felice – Via G. D’Annunzio 121, 50135 Florence
tel. 055 611299 – 6123516
email: festival@accademiasanfelice.com – info@accademiasanfelice.com
www.florenceyouthfestival.com