The harmonica player and composer Franco Luciani, one of the most important instrumentalists of popular music, give a free concert this Thursday 29 at 20 at the Teatro Argentino de La Plata. He will do it in trio format, together with Leonardo Andersen on guitar and Pablo Motta on double bass, as part of its celebrations for the 20 years of its career.
The recital he will give in to Astor Piazzolla’s room of the Platense theater, will take place as part of the meetings “Thursday alive” held at the Provincial Center for the Arts, located at Calle 51 between 9 and 10 in La Plata, by famous artists and emerging musicians of the Buenos Aires scene, members of the Code Province catalog.
The function will have limited capacity, therefore Tickets can be obtained free of charge from this Tuesday 27 at 12 noon on https://www.gba.gob.ar/teatro_argentino/entradas.
He is considered Luciani, instrumentalist, harmonica player, composer and singer one of the most talented and versatile Argentine musicians of his generation and the greatest harmonica player in Argentina today and recognized among the best in the world.
The celebrations for the two decades
The musician is currently celebrating his 20-year career and, in addition to this week’s show, perform two more concerts: one on Tuesday 8 November at 8.30 pm in the Lavardén room in the city of rosary beads (Santa Fe), and another Thursday 10 November, at 8 pm, in the National Auditorium of the Kirchner Cultural Center.
Both will also have free admissionwhich will be available a few days before each date through the websites of each room.
In these presentations, Luciani will address topics from some of the 10 albums he recorded during his solo careerand of the recordings in which he participated summoned as a special guest in a wide range of artists from different backgrounds and genres (has made more than 150 participations).
Some of these colleagues with whom Franco Luciani crossed paths along his musical path They will be part of the party, where they will also show their new material. It is known that the leitmotif of each of the shows will go from tango and folklore to other music, with their own versions and compositions.
a frank way
“I’ve always played the harmonica in a very singsong way; I always said it with my instrument, and even if that is my voice, singing was presented as a spiritual need “, she confessed a few years ago, hand in hand with Clarione.
Franco started on drums, studied classical percussion and the harmonica has made its way into his life.
“I played with it while I was working with my father in a food distribution in Rosario. As he told me he had a flair for melodies, He asked me to take the one from some tango, or Summertime. So was the meeting. Then we get so close to the harmonica that I am one with her”, He summarized.
And on that occasion he said that, when he won as a revelation artist in the 2002 edition of the Cosquín Festival playing the harmonica, “I have never left her”.
“There is a huge breadth in the folk song books so that I can choose different materials, where I feel I can tell those stories from my collection. But there is also a need to show my compositions. ”Word of an artist who turns 20 and celebrates it with his audience with free admission for all.
Source: Telam
Source: Clarin
