Fabrizio Bianco, the son of Six Bars Jail founder Sergio Bianco, performs throughout a World Cafe session on the venue in Serpiolle, Italy.
Patrizia Messeri/Courtesy of Six Bars Jail
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Fabrizio Bianco, the son of Six Bars Jail founder Sergio Bianco, performs throughout a World Cafe session on the venue in Serpiolle, Italy.
Patrizia Messeri/Courtesy of Six Bars Jail
You are taking a summer time trip in Italy this week with our Sense of Place: Rome collection, exploring the music scene there. At the moment, it is a fast day journey to Tuscany to go to Six Bars Jail, a tiny membership simply outdoors Florence dedicated to finger-style guitar.
Sergio Bianco is without doubt one of the venue’s founders, who named the membership after a music by guitarist Giovanni Unterberger.
“He was a pioneer within the ’70s as a result of for the primary time he introduced in Italy the strategy of finger selecting or finger fashion,” he says.
On this session, you may hear concerning the distinctive approach this group of finger-style fans run the venue for his or her group, and you may hear performances from a number of the members, together with Sergio’s son Fabrizio.
“He loves the music I all the time performed, and much more, now he teaches me,” he says.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod. The online story was created by Miguel Perez. Our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.
