M U S I C P R O D U C T I O N

GIONNI GRASSO

BLUES D’AUTOREMAURIZIO PUGNOfeat. BAND

P !unching poetry

t « »he blues within the Italian author music, to tell the stories of the underdogs

Blues D’Autore:

M u si c c o nta i ns i n i t s e l f a u n i ve r s a l language indeed music, perhaps, the … ISuniversal language.

The Blues, , is at the origin of all on its own meritthat we now conventionally call easy listening «music some » (within which gravitate jazz, rock, pop and precisely the singer songwriter music).-

Blues D'Autore Labilia is a production that tells the last stories of the ones (in the sense « »of underdogs), capturing the mud and musically exasperating part of the structural and narrative deeproots, that sink into the Blues and the Italian singer-songwriter ; musicit is a transversal thought that uses the arrangements not only musical in a context, but emotional, social, revolutionary also in an and paradoxically contemporary content.

T he idea of tracing a transversal musical line that unites these two musical souls was born f f rom rom these reflect ions, and the collaboration between the Gionni Grasso Band and (Maurizio Pugno, known for being a composer, arranger and producer of projects « » , , Blues & Beyond Mz Dee Mark DuFresneSugar Ray Norcia Tad Robinson Lynwood , , Slim Kellie Rucker Linda Valori, , etc.)

Giampaolo Grassellini Gionni Grasso, , is akathe frontman and interpreter of this artistic path.

Former boxer, rugby player, , bricklayerscenographic operator, plunged into music (almost by accident he has for years been ) a protagonist of the visceral reinterpretation of everything that is the Italian author song .writing

With this production, isGiampaolo as if he were almost in the spokesman of the last , « »prayer against the injustice suffered.

However, love is not outside its emotions, in all its facets

The band is a continuous cycle laboratory « » that deconstructs part of the Italian singer-songwriter and genre almost completely reconstructs it in a personal and auto-biographical where the individual way,peculiarities of the musicians interconnectaround the concept of and s Blues italian author’s music.

GIONNI GRASSO BANDBLUES D’AUTORE

Punching poetry!

today’s storiesthe blues of their stories

old stories

the stories and loves of the underdogs

GIONNI GRASSOBAND

Show InfoFive musicians, five ways of seeing and hearing music, but all to achieve a performance of absolute executive quality.focused

In a venue of any size, in a theater, at a Festival,

and wherever you want to promote Italian author's music.for concerts and/or street and outdoor events, for private events

Blues d’Autore is a project in which the Italian «musical literature» is revisited through the «blues»; the eyes of

However the term is also blues intended as a social« »

The repertoire is made by original tracks and/or

composing what we might call a contemporary ballad .« »completely rearranged reinterpretations that draw from the present,

and emotional container not just a musical one.,

Technical requirements

» Minimum stage size:

» udio :A service PA system adequate for the location, Sound engineer, / monitors speakers, lines D.I.4 5 3

» ervice:Lighting s According to availability

» On site backline: D 2 s srums, digital piano. at least vocal / microphone with stand , guitar and bass amps

» Other specific needs: P oneossibility of dressing room with bathroom

It is possible to bring own backline or part of it » Note:

6x3 meters

Giampaolo Grassellini, born in 1977, aka Gionni Grasso, is an Umbrian performer who fell into the world of music almost by accident.

He wanted him to was born on May 22 and the fate « »be zodiac , together born under the sign of the twins with a twin brother (the well-known boxing champion Giammario Grassellini).

He grew up in the province , of Perugia in a small medieval town called Gubbio, where his boxing career began at the same pace as his brother, alternat with his work of ely bricklaying, rugby fieldsand theaters, a of dust and stagin in mix «sport, culture .»

The love for the Italian singer-songwriter musicpushe him, at a certain point, to abandon the sport d for the passion of singing .

He then f sorm the , an Gionni Grasso Bandensemble of local musicians that revolve around d

concert , food and drink , where s good social ingMichele Fumanti, musician, singer, pianist and arranger is one of the main driving minds.,

T he meeting with dates back toM Pugnoaurizio2016, to which asks to collaborate Gionni Grassofor an evening dedicated to Lucio Dalla (one of the greatest Italian singer-songwriter ever, who died in 2012): In that occasion a c me the idea of «Blues D'Autore»; build a common path that connects to the « » to the «Blues ugno belly Grassellini & of P ofco.».A new attempt to represent the Italian author« 's music ferrying Tevere » by it from one bank (of the river river) to the other (of the Mississippi ).

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The artists of The Gionni

Grasso Band

MAURIZIO PUGNO guitars and arrangementsFRANZ PIOMBINO

MICHELE FUMANTIpiano, voc s al and arrangements

GIONNI GRASSOvocal

C U L T U R E C H A N G E S S H A P E

electric bass MICHELE FONDACCI drums, percussion and electronic

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