Musicastrada

Nick Becattini & Serious Fun feat. Peaches
24 July 2001 Calcinaia

Nick Beccatini, a 40 years old Tuscan guitarist, is on the musical scene from 1986, when he joined the famous Model T Boogie group. Between 1990 and 1993 he moved in Chicago, where he joined the Son Seals band; and in Chiacago he mets some gotha of the america blues: Otis Rush, Sugar Blue, Billy [...]

Vince Vallicelli Band
16 July 2002 Calcinaia

Vince Vallicelli, was born in Forlì in 1951. His musical career began at 15, when his attraction for rhythm was so strong that dissuaded him from doing anything else except a deep study and research of it. He then continued to study drums by himself. As his experience in the field of music grew, his [...]

Sax Gordon & Blue Gadjo
23 July 2003 Calcinaia

“Sax” Gordon Beadle is one of the most exciting and in-demand performers carrying on the great tradition of American Rhythm & Blues Saxophone, both in studios and in clubs and concert halls worldwide. With astonishing ability and virtually unmatched energy, Gordon brings rocking sax workouts, swinging classics, gutbucket Blues, and deep ballads alive like no [...]

Papa Don McMinn & Nightrain
20 July 2004 Calcinaia

Papa Don McMinn is a Memphis Music legend. He was instrumental in the rebirth of the Home of the Blues: Beale Street in Memphis Tennessee. During the mid-1980s, Papa Don’s band had the “house gig” at Rum Boogie on the corner of Beale and Highway 61. Everyone who was anyone was there, and when the [...]

Paolo Amulfi Band
20 July 2005 Calcinaia

Paolo Amulfi, born in Florence, started studying the guitar at the age of 10, then he devoted to rock and blues guitar hits. From 1987 to 1993, he was a teacher of electric guitar at the “Lizard School” in Fiesole, lecturing in rock and blues. In 1994 he formed “The Blues Power Band” and performed [...]

Rodeo Activity?
20 July 2005 Calcinaia

Giulio Tosi: acoustic and electric guitar
Claudio “Reverendo” Bianchini: dobro, acoustic and electric guitar

Donnie Romano & The Catfish Combo
19 July 2006 Calcinaia

Donnie Romano, a guitarist and a song singer writer. He comes from Lazio but he has been living in Tuscany for many years. Few words but lot of energy, this is his reputation. His audience is always amazed by his incredible technique, his sound and his personal and faultless style, beyond the influences of previous [...]

Li’l Brian & the Zydeco Travelers
20 July 2006 Calcinaia

Zydeco music comes from Louisiana and originates from different traditional and folk Creole music. Belonging to this tradition, groups like Lì’l Brian’s broaden their outlook, including funky, pop music and R’n’B. A melting of energy, a real explosion of rhythm and an unrestrained groove: this is the dance music in the Zyedeco and Cayun tradition. [...]

Alex Schultz Organ Trio feat. Raphael Wressnig & Lukas Knofler
18 July 2007 Calcinaia

A famous guitarist and producer, playing in many tours worldwide, one of the main characters of the American Blues set.. this is Alex Schultz. Winner of a W.C. Handy Award in 1986 with the record “Blowing like Hell” by William Clark, in 1988 he plays in “Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers”. In 1995 he [...]

Sugar Ray Norcia & Rico Blues Combo
19 July 2007 Calcinaia

Sometimes they come back. As soon as they stop playing you miss them. A great society: Rico Blues Combo, one of the first Italian blues bands and Sugar Ray Norcia a great singer and harmonica player with different vocal characters, mixing Chicago Blues, Soul, Swing, R&B, R&R and Country music. Sugar Ray has a so [...]

Lynn Drury feat. Roberto Luti
16 July 2008 Calcinaia

New Orleans-based singer songwriter Lynn Drury’s powerful wail and sultry singing have been compared to such performers as Bonnie Raitt, Janis Joplin and even Norah Jones. But this Mississippi girl is making her own name for herself, belting out a breath of fresh air into the New Orleans music scene and beyond and winning over [...]

Brian Templeton
17 July 2008 Calcinaia

Appeared in the Boston’s blues scene in 1989, and till 1999 leader of the famous band Radio Kings, Brian Templeton built his own reputation thanks to his powerful voice, his fantastic harp playing and a his great composition. Brian Templeton is one of the most talented vocalist to come along in quite a while. His [...]

The Final Lap Blues Band
22 July 2009 Calcinaia

Piazza Indipendenza
A testimonianza che la Toscana e la provincia di Pisa in particolare, è uno dei luoghi fondamentali nella mappa del blues italiano, ecco una band giovanissima (i componenti hanno dai 13 ai 16 anni!!!) con un futuro luminoso davanti. Il Musicastrada Festival, sempre attento a ciò che di buono si muove in provincia, non [...]

Texas Slim
22 July 2009 Calcinaia

Texas Slim could very well be a reincarnate of a passed soulful singer who plays guitar and is once again carving out a niche in blues music history. Born and raised in Dallas, TX… Slim from an early age met and played with the great Alex Moore, (who first recorded the blues in 1929) and [...]

Commander Cody Band
23 July 2009 Calcinaia

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The band was conceived in 1968, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, but arrived in San Francisco in 1969, just in time to catch the tale end of the summer of love. The repertoire stretched from old time rock and roll, red neck [...]