Barber shop This summer I went to a lovely events, held in San Vito dei Normanni, a small town in the county of Brindisi, one of the five town of Puglia. It is about an hour from where I live. The events was " The mandolin in the barber Shop". The goal was to tell and show how in the last years they used to play and learn to play mandolin and the italian traditional music. The barber shop was one fo the most important gathering center were man could play and have fun and .... obviously they have their haircut too:) There were a lot of people and also a group of Scottish that really enjoyed and danced during the performances. I love this kind of events, because we are losting our musical tradition and it was sad when I meet italian people that often don't know what is a mandolin!!!

this summer will not end Hi everybody How did you spend your summer, and above all, how long has been your summer? I live in south Italy and for the most part of the year, we have a beautiful time, the temperature is very mild/temperate and we have a lot of sunny day. Unfortunately I live in a town a little much wet, expecially in this period but it is not so hard to stand. However this year is very hot summer, and I 'm still going to the beach, because it is impossibile to stay home. Today the sea was very calm and the water is so hot too. There is no way to refresh and there are no trees or else where to find a little shadow. It could seem my country is a hell but I think it's a paradise on earth!! Take it easy :)

some way of saying How do you say in english this phrase: meno male ( I only know ..."thanks god", but there is another way of saying this?) non farci caso or non dargli retta non ti permettere ( is it correct in any case/situation to say "don't you dare" )

easy reading

Good morning

I would like to know what are the best books in english that you will suggest to start reading in english. I don't mean easy book structureed  for level of difficulty  but a real book that have an easy reading.

 

Thank you very much

D.

How musical tastes can change part 3 .... Northern Exposure was a beautiful serial tv with an amazing soundtrack... there a lot of country, alternative rock, classic rock, jazz and a mixture of all the american sytles that in nowdays it is called ' Americana ' and sometimes there were also banjo tunes. In those days I hated the sound of banjo and I bought cd with only acoustic guitar becasue that strange and very western sound I didn't like it. But in life you can never say what happen...infact one day I saw a concert of an italian bluegrass band and their banjo player shocked me. I was saw impressed by the sound of his banjo and the way he played it that it was love at first sight. After that night I decided to buy a banjo but find one it was not so easy as buy a guitar..so I waited two years before I bought one and then my mind opened to a variety of banjo style that led me to what I mostly play nowdays, clawhammer banjo style!!

How musical tastes can change part 2 as I said in the last clipboard , it was the 1995 when I read for the first time the term "Flatpicking Guitar". It was a page dedicated to the acustic guitar played with the plectrum, but I didn't know what kind of music style it was dedicated to. I started to understand that it had to be linked to the country music or whatsoever style dedicated to this kind of music. Fortunatelly the writer after every article, published the item of the record and the adress of record label so after collect a large items and adresses I start to send a mail for every adresses I collected. There 's no internet and I did not have any money so I have to wait a lot before the surface mail arrived to destination but after a couple of months the first catalogs arrived. I was happy like a child, recevied something from USA was amazing. The first two labels were "Rounder records" for the records and Mel Bay for the tab books and methods to know and study more about flatpicking guitar. In the meantime my curiosity grow up also due to a serial tv, braodcast in those days in Italy. it was called Un Medico Tra gli Orsi ( a doctor among bears) in english was Northern Exposure.......

How musical tastes can change part 1 :) I love old time music and acoustic music mostly. But the way that lead me on it , it was very strange. When I was a teenager I started to play guitar. I started before with classic guitar and then I switched to an electric one. I remember the movie Back to The Future where M.J Fox played the amazing Gibson 335 and I fell in love with the rock&roll! From that day I expanded my musical horizont and I started to listen everything about R&R and Blues and as the months and the years passed I felt in love with country blues. It was 1995 when I read for the first time on an italian guitar magazine the term Flatpicking Guitar .... end part 1 :)