Osteria del Mandolino is a musical formation that was born with the aim of bringing back to the  light and to the attention of the public the music that develops in Italy from the second half of the 19th century   up to the present day, through illustrious authors, virtuous musicians, original pieces and above all  through the dance.

Waltz, Polka, Mazurka, Marcia, Serenata , constitute the repertoire of the so-called dancers. 

This music, too often abused by fake sounds and electronic keyboards, resumes  life in its original form through the use of the most popular tools in our tradition. 

Mandolins, ocarina, clarinet, guitar and double bass meet at the Osteria del Mandolino, a  place of the soul born from the mists of the past, a place where ancient things come back to life e  where it is still possible to listen to a serenade, to be twenty years old and to dance embraced, and in a  path of re-knowledge to get in touch with the most intimate and true part of ourselves.
And with  this spirit, that of the taverns, which can happen to the incursion of other friends and musicians.

The name "OSTERIA DEL MANDOLINO" is a tribute to a non-academic world that has  contributed enormously to the development and dissemination of repertoires. The taverns , in fact, together  to the shaving rooms, they were places where musicians gathered to play and where they could be listened to  great Italian masters, with an almost forgotten respect today.

Playing these instruments, this repertoire, is like coming home after traveling  so much and in making this return here is the encounter with the ocarina , a Bolognese land that plays, since  1853. This land, which torn from the feet of the dancers becomes sound, makes their footsteps lighter and

the whirls more swirling.

On this occasion Osteria del mandolino, in addition to presenting the songs from the freshly printed cd Sotto la magnolia ,  proposes a program with  most significant pieces of their repertoire.

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OSTERIA DEL MANDOLIN

Osteria del Mandolino has been active since 2015. He has participated in various musical reviews and concerts including: Corti Chiese e Cortili , Villages and hamlets in music , May Day in Piazza Maggiore (with Eugenio Finardi), Sotto le stelle del cinema (edited by Cineteca di Bologna, in Piazza Maggiore), Majella etnofestival , (2016);  International festival  Ocarina- Budrio (2015-2017), Divine sunset  (review curated by the Emilia-Romagna Region, 2017-2018); The voices of the Delta (edited by Romagna musica,  in Musical Challenge conducted by Arturo Stalteri),  Primaveranda , In Search of the Train by John Cage - a biodiversity landscape (1-2), Infrasuoni (2018).

The group has collaborated with the musicians Marco Marcheselli, Ruggero Passarini, Fausto Carpani, Davide Salvi and with the actor and puppeteer Riccardo Pazzaglia with whom they play on stage in the show The ballad of the powerful .

Discography :  Sotto la magnolia (produced by Oderso Rubini and Osteria del Mandolino, 2018, Goodfellas distribution), with  the participation of Guglielmo Pagnozzi, Carlo  Maver, Gianluigi Paganelli, Roberto Pianezza and Francesca Alinovi.

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