I started to play the acoustic guitar when I was twelve and a couple of years after I put together a small combo(two acoustic guitars and a snare drum!) doing Elvis songs and other rockn roll covers playing mostly friends parties. It was in that days that I bought a vinyl double album of Rev. Gary Davis because he wrote many of the songs I was listening done by other artists and I wanted to listen the original version! That record hit like thunder! Literally changed my life and my musical vision! Never heard an acoustic guitar played that way and from then on, I discovered guitar players like Merle Travis, Doc Watson, Blind Blake that have been the biggest influences on my playing and still are!
I began playing music professionally in 1980 in the club circuit of my hometown Milan and during the years I played all the major blues festivals in Italy, Switzerland and all over Europe sharing the stage and playing with Mark Hummell, Keith Dunn, Al Copley, The Ford Blues Band, Andy Just, Mitch Woods, Sandra Hall, Oliver Morgan .
Following a year and a half stint as a guitar player for the world known harp player Sugar Blue I decided to concentrate on my own thing putting together an acoustic set of songs drawn from the repertoires of 20s and 30s bluesmen and old timers adding some new arrangements using various acoustic instruments ( banjos, ukuleles, mandolins ) and throwing in some selfwritten new songs too.
I play mostly as a duo with an upright bass player but I can add some other musicians to create a fuller sound.
12 / 13 MARCH 2010 at Live CLub - via mazzini 58 TREZZO SULL'ADDA (MILAN) - ITALY www.getrhythm.it
Live on stage:
BARRENCE WHITFIELD (USA) With the Seatsniffers (BE)
49 SPECIAL (POR)
JESSE AND THE ORBITS (UK)
SLIM SLIP AND THE SLIDERS (UK)
THE BRICATS (DE)
CARL AND THE RHYTHM ALL STARS (FR)
Plus top Djs from around the world: Tracy Dick (UK) Steve Stack-O-Wax (UK) Silvia (DE) Sputnik (NL) Plus SPECIAL GUEST: Dj Henry (IT) From Rollin' and Tumblin' R&B Club
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Barbeque Party on saturday afternoon at Live CLub
Cars contest BEST 6 PRE '65
shuttle service from ORIO AL SERIO AIRPORT TO HOTEL PRIMO MAGGIO (agreed hotel with best prices for the festival)
shuttle service from HOTEL PRIMO MAGGIO to LIVE CLUB
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