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Upon walking into the hall foyer, I saw the new festival banner which looked very impressive. |
Upstairs, Selenia and Elisa from Scandalli, standing beside the Scandalli banner. |
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The concert was opened with an introduction of the Vice-Mayor |
of Loreto who welcomed everyone and opened the upcoming Festival and this concert. |
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First performer was Danilo Di Paolonicola |
who played an interesting program |
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of different types of music that the audience clearly enjoyed very much. |
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Next was Mirco Patarini |
who was playing a concert program |
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but had carefully picked his program to show many different styles and music that included well known melodies
to have a very popular response from the audience. |
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Finishing off the program was Mario D'Amario |
who performed with skill and like the two |
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performances before, used his instrument musically and effectively showing many different styles of music to
strong audience appreciation.
Overall an excellent promotional concert to start the festival. |
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A photo of the whole team outside the hall - performers, organisers, assistants - tutti!! |
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The concert in the Piazza Boccolino of Osimo City was part of the Osimo festival and the city |
was beautifully decorated with crowds of people walking around. |
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Giampiero Giustozzi of Giustozzi Accordion Factory with Holda Paoletti-Kampl |
The band Khorakhanè took the stage
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Visitors to the festival, Francesco and Giuseppina with Holda and Adrio. |
Carlo Borsini of Borsini Accordions, Lulinha Alencar from Brazil, Catherine and Francesca Santori. |
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Luca Medri (pianoforte, tastiere e fisarmonica/piano, keyboards and accordion), Fabrizio Coveri (vocals),
Pier David Fanti (drums), Gioele Sindona (violin),
Matteo Scheda (guitar),
Roberto Villa (bass guitar),
Hilario Baggini (percussioni, flute, etc). |
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Luca Medri |
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Harley Jones of Accordions Worldwide, Matteo Mengascini of Mengascini Nello Accordions, Pietro Adragna, Antonella Toccaceli of Master Midi Production and Giampiero Giustozzi of the Giustozzi Accordion Factory. |
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Pietro Adragna is one of the participants in the 2012 Music Reality |
Show and he was promoting this with a short promotional performance |
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Maria Selezneva similarly performed one peice as a |
promotion for the Music Reality Show which starts tomorrow. |
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A beautiful picturesque street in Castelfidardo. |
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Vincenzo Canali (President of the International Accordion Museum of Castelfidardo) working late at the festival office and Harley Jones. |
We visited the Music Reality Show and playing was Pietro Adragna. |
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This picture shows the Music Reality Show recording equipment. There are three cameras, two camera men plus a person co-ordinating the equipment, the pictures and the broadcast on streaming video. |
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The two camera men filming Pietro |
performing with the Master Midi and his ever present smile. |
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Pietro was joined by Davide Bugari on percussion and singer/guitarist Alessandra Machella
preparing in the background to join their peformance. |
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Antonella Toccaceli of Master Midi Production, her neice Annalisa Martelli and sister Loretta Toccaceli. |
Alessio Gerundi of Zero Sette Accordions and Joe Petosa Jnr. |
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The group were joined by Vincenzo Borsini (center) of Borsini Accordions. |