Cape Breton Pipe Band? (small correction)

[Victor Maurice Faubert]

marcello wrote:
> Hello Victor

Hello!

  (or Maurice? or Victor Maurice? Have you got a preferred way of
> being called?)

I answer to most anything, but am usually just Vic.

> may I congratulate you on your very good translation from Italian? 

Thank you.

> You even
> bothered to correct
> the name of the city of Varese, a correction I was going to e-mail to you
> before reading this very message!

Sorry about that. I don’t know where that extra syllable came from—when 
I reread my message, I spotted it and immediately sent the correction.

> All this exchange of e-mails about what resulted to be an Italian-based
> Celtic music group
> has stimulated my interest in looking for other similar groups in my
> Country.
> I already knew, indeed, that there were some, but I prejudicially dismissed
> them as naive imitators:

Some of the “imitators” are very good indeed! David Greenberg is 
probably the best known example in contemporary Cape Breton music. 
Originally from Maryland and a classically trained baroque violinist 
(he’s plays in the well-known group Tafelmusik), he’s become a fine Cape 
Breton fiddler, though I’ve not, alas, heard him in Cape Breton in a few 
years now. See
	<http://www.marquisclassics.com/artists/greenberg_bio.html>
for more information about him. And Jerry Holland, of course, wasn’t 
born in Cape Breton either. So, give those “naive imitators” a break and 
listen to them without prejudice; you may be pleasantly surprised.

> now, following such favourable "reviews" I got from you and the other
> Canadian e-mail friends,
> I think I'll give them a more interested (and open-minded) ear!

I, for one, would very much enjoy hearing about the status of Cape 
Breton and other Celtic music in Italy (and elsewhere in Europe). How 
many of your friends share your taste for the music? What groups from 
Cape Breton have you heard? What touring and concert opportunities for 
Cape Breton groups exist in Italy? Do you travel to Celtic Europe 
(Celtic Connections concert in Scotland, for example, or visit Ireland 
or Scotland or Brittany or Galicia)? How many Italians play the music? 
How well do they play it? Why are Italians interested in Celtic music? 
How available is Celtic music on Italian television or radio? Etc.

> Internet has really become an extraordinary instrument of knowledge
> spreading,
> and when correctly used it links happily togheter people as far away as we
> are,
> separated by the Atlantic Ocean but united by the love for traditional
> music.

Indeed. Google has made it possible to find information that would 
otherwise be completely out of reach and to share audio and video clips, 
such as the one which led to this thread. It is invaluable to me.

> Ciao (I think this typical Italian greeting is as well known as our Pizza:
> isn't it?)

Absolutely! Here in New Jersey, pizza (and great Italian food in 
general) is as widespread and widely liked as the greeting.

> Marcello
> 
> 
> Marcello Grillini
> Rome, Italy
> grillini at casaccia.enea.it

All the best.
-- 
                                                      Vic