Party: Modena City Ramblers - Opium Rooms - Feb 20th, 8pm

Party: Modena City Ramblers - Opium Rooms - Feb 20th, 8pm

Modena City Ramblers
Opium Rooms

Fri 20th Feb, 8pm
Tickets €16.50 from wavtickets.ie

Modena City Ramblers: the most important Italian band in its genre, known for their special mix of folk and “world” influences with ska and rock.

The band has sold more than 800.000 copies of their CDs in the last 20 years. Their constant performing with huge audiences has made them a popular and consolidated phenomenon on the Italian rock music scene. The band has been on world tour for more than 10 years, with a definitely fulfilling feedback under both the performing and the disc graphic point of view. The trip starts from Italy and its typical mandolin, through the Celtic tin whistle and finally reaches those African rhythms inwardly linked to the percussions of the slave workers in the two Continents. Inside this mix powerful electric guitar and drums find their perfect collocation, together with violin and accordion and the influence of punk in their singing.

Moreover, they mix Irish Folk and Italian Taranta. The result of all this is the so-called Celtic patchanka. In the past they released “Bella Ciao: combat folk for the masses”, that, despite its being particularly new and unexpected, has definitely met the public's lively interest. Produced by Terry Woods (The Pogues), the album re-visits the band's classics through an open-minded international vision, with some lyrics in English, Spanish and French.

In the last 5 years the band played for a several gigs all around Europe (Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Finland) with great success. In 2014 they released an album + DVD named “VENTI”, a live collections of their best songs and they start for a new Italian and International tour.

Modena City Ramblers are:
Roberto Zeno: drums and percussion and backing vocals
Franco D’Aniello: tin whistle, flute, trumpet and backing vocals
Massimo Ghiacci: bass, guitar and backing vocals
Leonardo Sgavetti: accordion
Francesco “Fry” Moneti: violin, mandolin, electric guitar
Davide “Dudu” Morandi: lead vocals
Luca Serio Bertolini: guitars and backing vocals

Appearing in the OPIUM ROOMS (Formerly The Village) on Friday 20th February

Invited: Jeremiah Dean West, Chris Mark, Vale Bar, Kelly Proper, Jason Cook, Elisa Cerrato, Jacopo Damico, James Byrne, Ciaran McCann, Shane Palmer, Alberto Foti, Vivian Mel Mcgeever, Carolina De Pasquale, Annalisa Di Pietro, Gordon Rose, Francesco Ciccio Valente, Gráinne Gilmore, Chus Lopez Elena, Elena Gobber, Annalisa Mongio', Matteo Lonardi, Linda Latino, Chiara Tallarini, Aline San, Emilie Sparacca, Alessia Scarpellini, Chantal Bombaci, Caitlin McSwiggan, Marika Iannuzzi, Ciaran Murray, Rebecca Daly, Luca Mancinelli, Oonagh Heffernan, Teresita de Mure, Kevin Squires, Chiara Sbraus, Simona Ventrella, Blanca Moreno Fernandez, Enrico Cadoni, Emmy Thompson, Barbara Panetta, Mairead Butler, Mauricio Moraga, Mark Malone, Federico Carini, Marjolijn Smits, Oisín Ó Dubhláin, Massimiliano Galli, Marina Ciampetti, Richard Cole, Brian Grieco, Tommy Rash, Maestra Vaniglia, Blas Molina, Sara Carillo, Andrea Farneti, Jesus Marquez, Jilly Loftus, Alberto Ciaramella, Madeleine Seiler, Fabio Dessena, Noe Lia, Rory Comerford, Fulvio Pinto, Ylenia Morselli, Julian Brophy, Esteban Olivares, Paola Maggiorotto, Conall Lee, I-Ting Lee, Mánus Carlisle, Alessandro Ceccarelli, Massimo Fermo, Francesco Mariani, Luca D'alfonso, Lucas Bidault, Lev Yashin, Carmen Rz, Markus Lamest, Beatrice Gnassi, Vinicius Cruz, Silvana Benedetto, Francesca Barone, Nicola Contu, Joyce Murphy, Donatella Russo, Rafal Kostrzewa, Judith Richter, Agata Meloni, Jacopo Scrinzi, Stefano Tundo, Roberta Bignardi, Sara Escuredo, Daniele Cornelio Palaia, Fabio Commodi, Ziv Abraham, Silvia Chiapparrone, Olga Lamest, Antonio Zoppas Della Corte, Matteo Silvio show more »