Giardini al CUBO
Twenty-four evenings of shows with free admission from 13 June to 22 September 2017
The new season of Giardini al CUBO, this year also taking place in Milan, will enliven the summer evenings with special guests for meetings, concerts, talk shows and performances, with special live music to entertain the audience while they wait.
Enrico Ruggeri. Music&lyrics
- Tuesday 11 July 2017 at 21:15
**Enrico Ruggeri** meets the public in a dialogue that delves into the birth of a song, telling small anecdotes and fun facts that hide behind the genesis of words or a melody. It will be a special sort of talk-show that develops as an informative and performative moment with the aim of accompanying the audience inside the songs.
A journey in which words leave room for the notes of some of the artist's great successes.
With **Paolo Zanetti** guitar, **Francesco Luppi** keyboards, **Franz Campi** leads.
Tiromancino acoustic set
- Thursday 13 July 2017 at 21:15
**Federico Zampaglione** - leader, soul, support, voice and guitar of Tiromancino, is accompanied by two musicians on stage, in an acoustic concert that showcases all the great successes of the group from Rome. Their songs are so miraculously simple that they become irreplaceable and some, such as 'La descrizione di un attimo' ('The description of a moment') or 'Due destini' ('Two destinies'), have changed the way we listen to music, heightened our attention, without interfering with the volume of the vocals, in a style that is classic but never saccharine, and the winning idea of mixing acoustic and electronic sounds.
Antonio Sanchez migration
- Tuesday 18 July 2017 at 21:15
Four-time Grammy Award winner Antonio Sanchez is considered by the public and professionals as one of the most interesting drummers, band leaders and composers of his generation. He appears on around a hundred albums, has played and recorded with some of the biggest names in jazz and has been Pat Metheny's regular drummer for several years. Sanchez is also an esteemed composer, as the author of the original soundtrack for one of the masterpieces of recent Hollywood cinema: 'Birdman', a film that won four Oscars. For the occasion, Sanchez will appear as the head of his group 'Migration'.
With **Thana Alexa** vocals, **Seamus Blake** tenor sax, **John Escreet** piano and electric piano, **Matt Brewer** double bass, **Antonio Sanchez** drums.
Angelo Branduardi. Between lyrics and music
- Thursday 20 July 2017 at 21:15
**Angelo Branduardi** meets with the public in a dialogue that delves into his long musical career. The diploma in violin at the Conservatory of Genoa, the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Milan, the meeting with the poet **Franco Fortini** and with **Luisa Zappa**, co-author of his great successes.
In this journey, words will give way to notes from the mastery of two musicians capable of moving from one instrument to another with great ease: from guitars to violin, from flutes to piano.
Musical accompaniment by **Maurizio Fabrizio**. Conductor **Franz Campi**.
Peter Erskine and the Dr.um band
- Tuesday 25 July 2017 at 21:15
**Peter Erskine** is an authentic icon of world jazz, one of the six leaders in the history of modern music. He was born in New Jersey and started playing the drums at the age of four. At 18, he began his professional career with the Stan Kenton Orchestra, but it was with Weather Report that the legend really started. He became a key member in the golden age of the 'Fusion Band' par excellence, recording five albums, including the famous live '8.30'.
With **Bob Sheppard** tenor sax, **John Beasley** piano and keyboards,** Benjamin Shepherd** electric bass, **Peter Erskine** drums.
Tony Momrelle special guest Sarah Jane Morris
- Thursday 27 July 2017 at 21:15
**Tony Momrelle**, one of the most interesting voices of the current London soul jazz scene, presents an exclusive special act enriched by the presence of **Sarah Jane Morris**, one of the most famous jazz singers from the UK. After having performed on the most prestigious stages in the world alongside stars such as Sade and Earth Wind & Fire, **Momrelle** decided to dedicate himself entirely and solely to his solo career, thanks also to his innovative compositional streak.
The summer horoscope questions the stars...under the stars.
- Tuesday 1 August 2017 at 21:15
A talk show with guests hosted by cultured and witty entertainer **Fabio Canino**, alongside one of the best Italian astrologers, **Marco Pesatori** and lightened by the comedic and musical interventions of **Stefano Nosei**, all to investigate what awaits us in this summer of 2017. Raise your hand if, despite professing indifference, you've read your horoscope at least a couple of times, possibly in secret, expressing mistrust and disbelief, but nonetheless with curiosity and some hope for good omens. Partly in earnest, partly for fun, the audience will be guided by the expert **Pesatori**, who knows how to interpret the signs of destiny by recounting them through poetry, to envision a better future...
Enzo Iacchetti. confidential interview. The story of a boy who wanted to fly high even though he suffered from vertigo
- Thursday 3 August 2017 at 21:15
Debuts, first experiences, television auditions, the Costanzo Show and finally Striscia la Notizia will be some of the topics covered. **Enzo Iacchetti** will be interviewed together with **Giorgio Centamore**, his trusted and faithful author and collaborator, through targeted questions linked to the theme of comedy and his theatrical and television career. This will be the narrative pretext for prompting entertaining stories and anecdotes that will reveal professional secrets while also opening a window onto everything that exists behind the work and career of a famous person. Iacchetti will also be accompanied on stage by his guitar and the audience will be able to contribute with related questions.
Presented by **Giorgio Centamore**
Jazz-tinged songs
- Thursday 24 August 2017 at 21:15
Born in Bologna, Silvia Donati began singing thanks to an innate passion for 'black' music and in particular for jazz. Greatly appreciated by musicians for her warm and cavernous timbre, for her excellent interpretative skills, and for her natural ability to improvise with her voice, using it as an instrument, Silvia immediately established herself on the national music scene, racking up numerous major collaborations. On several occasions she also shared the stage with the members of this all-star band which includes some of the musicians that are most representarive of Emilia of all time.
With **Silvia Donati** vocals, **Jimmy Villotti** guitar, **Alessandro
Altarocca** piano, **Ares Tavolazzi** double bass, **Ellade Bandini** drums.
Extraliscio. Dance hall punk
- Tuesday 29 August 2017 at 21:15
**Extraliscio** arose from the meeting of Mirco Mariani and Moreno il Biondo at LABOTRON, between mellotron and primordial drum machines where traditional songs are covered with new sounds and new arrangements, original extraliscio compositions are born, tradition merges with experimentation and new, unprecedented and crazy worlds open up. This is how the futurist show orchestra **Extraliscio** was created, making its debut with a rumba rearrangement of a song written by Secondo and Raoul Casadei and an unreleased Cha Cha Cha. Their music also includes polkas and waltzes, a fox trot, a beguine, a cumbia rock and a dixie boogie, mariachi trumpets and songs in the Romagna dialect as part of a project to rediscover and promote traditional dance halls: places that are often forgotten today and that with our 'balera punk' can return to their former glory.
Words and the sea, journey into the unknown.
- Thursday 31 August 2017 at 21:15
The story of a journey: a Mediterranean journey through its coasts, its history and its words. The past and present of different ports intersect on the stage: Athens, Tunis and Palermo, between historical figures and moments of daily life, between literature, theatre and music, through an ancient and present Mediterranean marked by migrations and cultural encounters. Words are the very stuff that routes and coasts are made of on this journey, because nothing tells us more about our common space, our history and our destiny than the continuous mixing of words and languages.
With **Lino Guanciale**, **Simone Tangolo** and **Alessandro Vanoli**.
The flavour of music. Double-fried notes
- Tuesday 5 September 2017 at 21:15
Preserving, protecting and passing on the culinary tradition of our country, in all its forms, is the mission that the chef, DJ, writer and actor from Salento **Daniele De Michele**, aka **Donpasta** has set himself.
In Double-fried notes, he will abandon pans and stoves to tell his story to food historian Massimo Montanari, revealing the path that began in a Senegalese bar in Paris, and which led him to become an international star. In the wake of Pellegrino Artusi who revived and ennobled the rural tradition, the music of Daniele di Bonaventura will accompany the culinary reflections, intertwining classical and popular melodies, showing the fruitful exchange that has always taken place between these two worlds.
With **Don Pasta**, **Massimo Montanari and **Daniele Bonaventura** on piano and bandoneon.
Dirotta su Cuba
- Thursday 7 September 2017 at 21:15
The show presents the greatest successes of the group, the Italian funky band par excellence, in over 20 years of their career and presents their first works entirely live, played with new arrangements and with an expanded lineup; on 23 June 1995, the first LP entitled **DIROTTA SU CUBA**, the group's namesake, was released on CGD/EastWest Italy, an album that was immediately destined to become a cult favourite for fans of the genre. The album reached the top of the sales charts in very little time, obtaining gold and then platinum status thanks also to the songs 'Liberi di - Liberi da' and 'Dove sei', which became popular on the radio. The songs Sensibilità, Notti d’estate, E’ andata così, Parole, Ragione o sentimento have become real evergreens.
The flavour of music. The taste of the classics
- Tuesday 12 September 2017 at 21:15
The project dedicated to the culinary arts will be concluded by **Gualtiero Marchesi**, considered the founder of new Italian cuisine. As a passionate lover of classical music, the best-known Italian chef in the world is convinced that cooking and composing are two arts linked by the same ethical code and the same discipline. Maestro **Marchesi** will tell **Massimo Montanari** about the crucial moments of his career and his passion for music. Accompanying his story is an ensemble of brilliant talents, the **Trio Dandolo**, performing in major Italian and European venues, who will perform celebrated melodies from the classical repertoire.
With **Gualtiero Marchesi**, **Massimo Montanari** and the music of **Trio Dandolo**.
Beastly... that tour of Italy!
- Wednesday 19 July 2017 at 21:00
With a hilarious and at the same time dramatic interpretation, **Ivano Marescotti** recounts the 1914 Giro d'Italia, the most gruelling race in cycling history with stages of over 400 kilometres. Of the 81 starters in Milan only eight arrived and the winner was Alfonso Calzolari, the only one from Bologna who managed to take the pink jersey under the two towers.
It was 'heroic' cycling, with the riders subjected to unspeakable exertion, as a mirror of a rural and labouring Italy that found in that race the representatives of its own living conditions, on the eve, not by chance, of the cataclysm of the First World War.
By **Maurizio Garuti**, with **Ivano Marescotti** accompanied on the piano by **Daniele Furlati**.
The shows will be held in Sala delle Colonne of 'Leonardo da Vinci' National Museum of Science and Technology in Via San Vittore 21, Milan
Nada and A Toys Orchestra
- Tuesday 13 June 2017 at 21:15
**Nada** is the muse of Italian independent music, a singer-songwriter who is adored by critics and audiences of different ages and backgrounds. An artist who has made her belly and heart the fulcrum around which the urgency of her musical message resolves, which still fascinates and inspires
audiences today. It is therefore no coincidence that she decided - as has already happened in the past with Zen Circus and Criminal Jokers - to involve **A Toys Orchestra**, a band with a solid and prestigious history which, like her, has been able to gain transversal credibility by appealing to the heterogeneity of listeners
from different eras and generations.
The Di Maggio Connection Feat. Greg
- Thursday 15 June 2017 at 21:15
The **Di Maggio Connection Feat. Greg** concert consists of original pieces by **Marco Di Maggio** and numerous reinterpretations of obscure songs and even standards that have been completely changed from the originals.
The traditional and personal sound of Di Maggio Connection meets the imagination and versatility of the Singer/Actor **Claudio Gregori**, alias Greg, for a truly varied show that retraces the fundamental stages of the history of R'n'R and Rockabilly.
Non plus ultra
- Tuesday 20 June 2017 at 21:15
**Raul Cremona** returns to the stage with this new show, a surreal journey into the artistic memory of Raul Cremona which includes bizarre encounters: Jacopo Ortis with his comically Gassmanian speech, born from a childhood spent between matches at the oratory and evenings at the Arena cinema.
During the show Raul Cremona disenchantedly takes us on a carousel ride, at times a whirlwind, at times poetic, reconfirming himself as a storyteller who uses magic as the art of narration. Conjuring, puns, music, gags, this is the Non plus Ultra of Raul Cremona's comedy, to be enchanted once again by his magical wit.
Music performed live by **Omar Stellacci**
Black art jazz collective
- Thursday 22 June 2017 at 21:15
An all-star band made up of talented young musicians from the US scene, who have come together to celebrate the great African-American musical tradition. The pieces on the album, which will be presented on this European tour, are entirely dedicated to African-American cultural icons and the exceptional contribution they have made to the development and consecration of jazz music. The result is music with roots in the history of modern jazz, bringing us back to its deepest character, consisting of swing, a blues feeling and overwhelming ostinato grooves.
With **Jeremy Pelt**, trumpet; **Wayne Escoffery**, tenor sax;
**James Burton III**, trombone; **Xavier Davis**, piano; **Vicente Archer**, double bass; **Jonathan Blake**, drums
Sixty is sexy, Europe is still BEAUTIFUL
- Tuesday 27 June 2017 at 21:15
Europe's opponents use the wrong arguments and rely on questionable figures: but they are full of passion. Yet the friends of the European Union seem timid, almost ashamed to defend a masterpiece of humanity, a shared project that has brought peace and well-being to the continent for a long time: sixty years. **Beppe Severgnini** intends to explain why Europe is our home. It is a house that we must maintain, improve, and defend from the storm of populism, adapt it to the challenge of migration, protect it from bad intentions. At the end, there is a choral, moving and funny moment: '60 good reasons to be European'. Because, let's face it. Our Europe must be celebrated with pride; not hidden with embarrassment. It is still alive and well and, if we believe in it, it can go far.
With **Stefania Chiale**, journalist, **Marta Rizi**, actress, music by **Elisabetta Spada**
The flavour of music. A chef at work.
- Thursday 29 June 2017 at 21:15
**Massimo Montanari**, the most important Italian food historian and a professor at the University of Bologna, will interview **Carlo Cracco**, the most popular chef of the moment and a star of famous television programmes that have made him one of the most beloved chefs by the general public. Cracco's talent has led him towards different experiences, from airline menus to high fashion evenings. Since 2012 he has been in charge of managing Ristorante Trussardi alla Scala in Milan.
The evening will be accompanied by some of the most beloved melodies, played by Patrizia Bettotti on violin and Andrea Dindo on piano.
With **Patrizia Bettotti** violin, **Andrea Dindo** piano
The flavour of music. The mystical gulf.
- Tuesday 4 July 2017 at 21:15
In the enchanting landscape of the Amalfi Coast stands a 19th century palace that admirably combines ancient architecture with bright colours: this is how Don Alfonso 1890 introduces itself to visitors. History and tradition are intertwined in this place with novelty and experimentation, not only in the environment, but even more so in the menus of the starred chef **Alfonso Iaccarino**. The menu opens with a phrase by Eduardo De Filippo: 'Only after having studied, explored and respected tradition do we have the right to put it aside, always with the awareness that we are indebted to it, at least for having contributed to clarifying our ideas. If we use tradition as a springboard, we will jump much higher.'
With **Flo** vocals, **Marcello Giannini** guitar, **Marco Di Palo** cello, **Michele Maione** percussion. Host **Massimo Montanari**
Stormy winds. Ideas about Europe and the Italy of the future
- Thursday 6 July 2017 at 21:15
Currently mistreated and overwhelmed by the drama of immigration, Europe has one last chance to avoid imploding. Paradoxically, Donald Trump's elections and Brexit can offer new political opportunities and give new impetus to collaborations between states, for example in the field of security. We cannot be deaf to the anger of those voting in our democracies, we cannot fail to want a Europe that is at the service of its citizens, but nationalism is a dead end and only the common European flag will be able to strengthen our states.
With **Enrico Letta** and **Ferruccio de Bortoli**
