Guitar Circle Of Italy: main calendar overview of weekend meetings
Dear Reader,
Hereafter you’ll find a list of weekend meetings the Italian Circle held during the period 2000-2010 with a break between 2002 and 2003.
I’d just like to say few things about the specific features of such a stream of events:
If I look at it from where I am now, it looks like our approach was more towards the “Special Study Group” rather than a more typical course-like event-sequence which other Circles adopted in time.
We’ve been working pretty much all the way through, under the header of “study hall”, adopting a framework larger than just the duration of a single meeting, a program based on the 4 main fields of activities related to the guitar practice (callisthenics, fretboard knowledge, repertoire and fun), and from 2004 onwards, requesting certain pre-requisites to participate; we’ve been also doing quite few private and public performances. As a natural consequence of such an approach, the members of the team remained pretty much the same throughout the decade, with only few changes in time.
Also, I didn’t mention quite few other meetings/projects which took place within such timeframe, generated by the Circle activity which I consider as not exactly “proper Italian Circle Meetings”, i.e. north and south sub-group meetings, “Quails” and/or “Turkeys” (names we gave to different level of competence about playing the instrument) sub-groups meeting, Desiderata (an actual band which was formed by members of the Circle), performance projects at a Franciscan Convent near Udine, and so on.
Here’s the calendar:
2000
THE ROAD TO SASSOFERRATO
Participants: Alessandro Bruno, Filippo Guerini, Roberto Duse, Aldo Garuti (on occasions: Antonio De Honestis, Fabio Mittino, Fabio Palmieri, Marziano Fontana, Ciro Zeno).
April 8 Magenta (Mittino’s place)
May 13/14 Rolo (La Farnia)
June 17/18 Rolo
September 30/01 Fontevivola (Palmieri’s place)
November 10/12 Fontevivola
December 15/17 Rolo
2001
IN BETWEEN THE SASSO PROJECTS
Participants: Alessandro Bruno, Filippo Guerini, Adriano Clera, Roberto Duse, Aldo Garuti (on occasions: Paolo Marcon, Fabio Palmieri).
March 23/25 – Rolo
May 25/27 – Rolo (with Guillermo)
December 7/9 – Rolo
2004
THE ROAD TO CESCLANS
Participants: Alessandro Bruno, Filippo Guerini, Adriano Clera, Roberto Duse, Roberto Deiana, Attilio Songia, Aldo Garuti, Vinni Giara.
March 12/14 – Monte Marino (Deiana’s parents’ place)
April 16/18 – Monte Marino (performance in a private villa near Farfa for invited guests).
May 7/9 – Monte Marino (performance at Hot Ice Pub in Boville Ernica)
July 2/4 – Monte Marino (with Tony – performance in Rome at Castel S.Angelo)
October 29/31 – Rolo
December 3/5 – Cesclans (checking the place for next project)
2005
THE ROAD TO “THE FALL”
Participants: Alessandro Bruno, Filippo Guerini, Adriano Clera, Roberto Duse, Roberto Deiana, Attilio Songia, Aldo Garuti, Stefano Simioni
January 21/28 – Cesclans (hosting an Intro Course + LCG)
March 11/13 – Rolo
May 6/8 – Rolo
June 17/19 – Rolo (with Zum – performance in the house for invited guests)
September 16/18 – Monte Marino (performance in the house for invited guests)
October 28/30 – Rolo (performance at the village church)
December 7/11 – Rolo (hosting Luciano – Vienna & Kiel Circles – performances in Crema at Bar Parko & in a wine bar in Reggiolo)
2006
THE ROAD TO 108 STRINGS (TUNING THE AIR AT A DISTANCE)
Participants: Alessandro Bruno, Filippo Guerini, Adriano Clera, Roberto Duse, Roberto Deiana, Alessandro Papa, Stefano Simioni, Aldo Garuti (TTA-AAD with Anna Cefalo, Massimo D’Avanzo e Mattia Clera)
Febbruary 23/26 – Sant Cugat (Guests of the Barcelona Circle – Performance at the Elderly Home in La Floresta)
March 25 – Bologna (DLF)
May 13 – Bologna (DLF)
June 16/18 – Roma (L’Ottava – Performance in the house for invited guests after Q&A with Ken Lawton)
July 21/23 – Roma (L’Ottava – Performance in the house for invited guests– double bill with Anna & Max)
July 31 – Bologna (busking in the street – with Mattia Clera on stick)
September 18/21 – Montefiascone (Nuns’ Convent – With Robert Fripp – full TTA team plus Attilio & Baldy as guests – Performance at the Village Primary School)
October 27/29 – Rolo (Recordings for 108 Strings CD + performance at the village church)
December 01/04 – Sant Cugat (Guests of the Barcelona Circle – With Dr. Mike –TTA completion – Performance at the Elderly Home in La Floresta)
2007-2008
THE ROAD TO BOLOGNA (AS MEETING POINT)
Participants: Alessandro Bruno, Filippo Guerini, Adriano Clera, Roberto Duse, Roberto Deiana (Michele Agazzi and Criatina Atzori taking the place of Aldo and Stefano who dropped out in the middle of this leg of the project)
2007
December 16 – Bologna (Cristina Atzori’s place – building hall)
2008
January 16 – Bologna (Cristina Atzori’s place – building hall)
February 23 – Bologna (Cristina Atzori’s place – building hall)
March 14/16 – Cesclans (Performance in the house for invited guests)
June 26/29 – Roma (Al’s place – Performance at the Envangelic church opening for Melanie Monsour)
2009-2010
THE ROAD TO COMPLETION (SASSOFERRATO II)
Participants: Alessandro Bruno, Filippo Guerini, Adriano Clera, Roberto Duse, Roberto Deiana, Michele Agazzi, Massimo Di Giacomo
2009
January 17/18 – Bologna (Cristina Atzori’s place – Performance in the building hall)
September 25/27 – Roma (Deiana’s place – Performance at Teatro S.Genesio)
November 19/21 – Roma (Deiana’s place – Performance at Sergio’s birthday party)
2010
Febbruary 5/7 – Roma (Deiana’s place)
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