The Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal, in collaboration with Marco Callari, is pleased to announce the musical tour group “I Matti delle giuncaie“, who will show his new album, which contains instrumental songs and cantatas. These songs are the result of the duet with the artists: Eugenio Bennato (in Gioco do inde), Enrico “Erriquez” Greppi (in Tango Orango) and Michele Lombardi (Maremma Africa).
Tour date: October 26 to November 19, 2017
MARCO CALLIARI was born in Quebec, but he has never strayed far from his Italian roots. His first album, Che La Vita, celebrates the edge of world music Jazz, all lyrics and music written by Marco — and all in Italian. After this ground breaking success, Marco recorded his second solo album Mia Dolce Vita, in which he remakes his own versions of traditional Italian songs, including L’italiano, Bella Ciao and L’Americano. During his recurrent trips to Europe (Italy, France, Switzerland, and Belgium), USA and Canada, Marco Calliari found inspiration for his third album “Al Faro Est”. Marco released a new album in september 2013, Mi ricordo. “MI RICORDO” means “I Remember” in Italian, but it is also a translation of the Quebec that is “Je me souviens”. Marco “remembers” that he is the son of Italian immigrants and holds a dual Quebec/Italian cultural identity. In 2016, Marco is starting a new project called One Night, that is a show mostly composed of ballads which consists mainly on Marco’s authenticity and intensity.
I MATTI DELLE GIUNCAIE are four “crazy people” who, during the cold winter evenings and the hot summer nights, play guitars and the mandolin. From tango to rumba, from cancan to suite, singing their hearts out. Lapo Marliani, Francesci Ceri, Andrea Gozzi and Mirko Rosi are the sounds, choruses and rumored voices of the Queen Folk Maremma band.