Fornoli’s summer evening announced in my post at https://longoio3.com/2018/07/12/fornolis-summer-music-and-poetry-festival/ was a great success and attendance was brim-full in that gentle summer evening.
The format was a well-tried and tested one of combining music with poetry. Sometimes the music, played by ever-developing Giacomo Brunini, was played solo;
Sometimes it was combined with poems and stories beautifully declaimed by Marco Nicoli and Piero Nannini (with excellent cueing).
And sometimes the text was recited without guitar.
There was one particular stand-alone story recited with typical verve by Piero Nannini from a collection of stories by a Polish writer, Slawomir Mrozek, referring to a hole in a bridge joining two towns which no-one town could decide to repair.
I think the laughter this hilarious story aroused was because of the resonance it had with us poor locals infested by an increasing number of pot-holes in our area.
It’s already the sixth year this unmissable event has taken place at Fornoli and every year the format is different and equally enjoyable. All praise is due to Marco Nicoli and the Mammalucco association for putting on such great and informative entertainment.
Always a very interesting and pleasant evening which is organised by Marco Nicoli through the Mammalucco association. Thank you Marco for these lively evenings to while away time on a warm Summer’s evening. Always a different evening to look forward to for mid Summer. Regards. pot holes certainly in the UK there are many as in most cities around the world. Worst still is getting a second shower if taken unawares after or during rain. Not good at all driving through these most annoying indeed. But I can think of even far worse encounters with sink holes and these are manifesting throughout our damaged and ailing Planet. Houses blocks of offices cars buses lorries all can and do vanish unexpectedly unannounced I have even heard that a poor man was engulfed in one of these bed bedroom and all never to reemerge now that is truly a horrendous but true event. Sink holes in cities can be patched up more difficult though in the countryside and quite impossible in water. Seems to me it is all the gas and oil extracted that has left spaces and aquifers that move earth and sand washing it away thus creating these sink holes. The White House has its very own one in the gardens covered over now by a board. The other day in North UK a bus fell thus into one luckily all its passengers were brought to safety more or less unscathed by the experience. Reminds me of the 12 football boys and their coach in the Thailand cave who were similarly lost to the world what a brave rescue I applaud those rescuers.
Thanks for your well advised comment.
From journalist Marco Nicoli:
Mi fa veramente piacere che tu sia sempre presente e il tuo apprezzamento… Sei un grande amico e ti stimo tantissimo.. Grazie di tutto… Un caro saluto