Umbria Jazz, Perugia; from 6th to 15th July 2012

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Umbria Jazz has become one of the major dates in the world of music and music festivals. It is also unanimously acclaimed as being the top Italian music festival in terms of quality, and internationally it is one of most highly-rated festivals.
 A look at the names on the programme for this year's festival in Perugia from 6 to 15 July give an idea of why it has enjoyed so much success: there are jazz stars of the calibre of:

SANTA GIULIANA ARENA

July 6 Arena Santa Giuliana 9 pm

CHICK COREA-STEFANO BOLLANI DUET

STEFANO BOLLANI - HAMILTON DE HOLANDA DUET

July 7 Arena Santa Giuliana 9 pm

"To Monk"

STAN TRACEY TRIO

feat. ANDREW CLEYNDERT, CLARK TRACEY

HERBIE HANCOCK BAND

feat. JAMES GENUS, TREVOR LAWRENCE, LIONEL LOUEKE

July 8 Arena Santa Giuliana 9 pm

SPECTRUM ROAD

feat. JACK BRUCE, VERNON REID, JOHN MEDESKI, CINDY BLACKMAN- SANTANA

"Stomping & Singin' The Blues"

with DAVID MURRAY BIG BAND & MACY GRAY

July 9 Arena Santa Giuliana 9 pm

JOHN SCOFIELD'S HOLLOWBODY BAND

feat. KURT ROSENWINKEL, BEN STREET, BILL STEWART

"Radio Music Society"

ESPERANZA SPALDING

July 10 Arena Santa Giuliana 9 pm

"Sound Prints"

JOE LOVANO AND DAVE DOUGLAS QUINTET

featuring LAWRENCE FIELDS, LINDA OH and JOEY BARON

RAVA ON THE DANCE FLOOR

A Tribute to Michael Jackson with Enrico Rava PM Jazz Lab

July 11 Arena Santa Giuliana 9 pm

AL JARREAU

ERYKAH BADU

July 12 Arena Santa Giuliana 9 pm

PAT METHENY UNITY BAND

July 13 Arena Santa Giuliana 9 pm

SONNY ROLLINS

July 14 Arena Santa Giuliana 6,30 pm

"The Great Reggae Evening"

RITA MARLEY

STEPHEN MARLEY

ALPHA BLONDY

July 15 Arena Santa Giuliana 9 pm

STING "Back To Bass Tour"

MORLACCHI THEATER

"THE GIL EVANS CENTENNIAL PROJECT"

RYAN TRUESDELL EASTMAN JAZZ ORCHESTRA

July 7 17,30 Concert # 1

music from THE CLAUDE THORNHILL ORCHESTRA and

"OUT OF THE COOL" and "INDIVIDUALISM OF GIL EVANS"

July 8 17,30 Concert # 2

special guest FRANCESCO CAFISO

music from "NEW BOTTLE, OLD WINE"

and "GREAT JAZZ STANDARDS"

July 9 'round midnight Concert # 3

special guest STEFANO DI BATTISTA

music from "NEW BOTTLE, OLD WINE"

and "GREAT JAZZ STANDARDS"

July 10 'round midnight Concert # 4

special guest SCOTT ROBINSON

music from THE CLAUDE THORNHILL ORCHESTRA

and "OUT OF THE COOL"

and "INDIVIDUALISM OF GIL EVANS"

July 11 'round midnight Concert # 5

"MILES AHEAD" special guest FABRIZIO BOSSO

"PORGY AND BESS" special guest PAOLO FRESU

July 12 'round midnight Concert # 6

"QUIET NIGHTS" special guest FABRIZIO BOSSO

"SKETCHES OF SPAIN " special guest PAOLO FRESU

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July 7, Sunday July 8 at 12,00

free entrance

Tributo ad Astor Piazzolla

JUAN PABLO JOFRE ROMARION

with I SOLISTI DI PERUGIA

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July 7 'round midnight

"Monk 'n Roll"

FRANCESCO BEARZATTI QUARTET

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July 8 'round midnight

Dedicated to Thelonious Monk

PERUGIA JAZZ ORCHESTRA

direttore MARIO RAJA

special guest RICCARDO ZEGNA

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July 13th 5:30 pm

LYDIAN SOUND ORCHESTRA

Director RICCARDO BRAZZALE

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July 13 'round midnight

AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE QUINTET

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July 14 5:30 pm

WAYNE SHORTER QUARTET

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July 14 'round midnight

MELODY GARDOT

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July 15 5:30 pm

Mostly Monk

KENNY BARRON

MULGREW MILLER

ERIC REED

BENNY GREEN

Perugia-Green-Days-17-20-May 2012

After the successful first edition will return next May 17th to 20th , Perugia Green Days: Designing the Future of the Association and the Municipality of Perugia have already activated the organizational machine. Perugia and its historic center is preparing to host a program full of new ideas and strengthen the dialogue between consumers, institutions and many companies that have invested into sustainable production.

Numerous events, exhibits, hiking and biking routes in the city, and even a day dedicated to safe driving cars and using clean energy, and submit them by the major automakers with road tests.

Then again, the energy of flowers, a visit to a biogas plant, the importance of water, and much more, read the complete program: www.perugiagreendays.it

Perugia Green Days: May 17th to 20th, 2012

Following the success of last year's edition, from May 17th to 20th Perugia Green Days will be back not only in the old town centre but also close the stadium Curi area, offering ideas, information, debate and encouragement on sustainable and eco-friendly development.

Info: www.perugiagreendays.it

Calendimaggio Assisi 2012 - 3 days long!

The Assisi medioeval festival called Calendimaggio ended yesterday morning,... at 3:30 a.m.!

The winner is... The Nobilissima Parte de Sopra (the Blues, have a look on the above map)

Congratulations!!!

The Porta Nuova Hotel is inside the Parte de Sopra (Noble Upper Part of Assisi), is not enough clear? ok, follow me:

The Palio of Calendimaggio has returned to Noble Upper Part (of Assisi) that with this result confirms its supremacy in the budget total of 58 editions the Festival (28 wins, 26 losses, 2 ex aequo 2 editions not disputed). Much more success because this year Madonna Primavera (Virgin Spring) title was assigned to the beautiful Upper Part of girls, assigned to Michela Falcinelli, coupled with the winner of archery Fabio Brunelli.
The jury's verdict was not unanimous and this has created some friction between the partaioli (the two Parte's fun). It 's been discontinued domain Reds of the Magnificent Lower Part last three consecutive wins.
The City has confirmed fighting spirit in the heart of the dispute but, all together, has sung the spring festival. There was scenes of great big emotional impact, a parade of costumes worthy of attention, a overall choreography that has enchanted audiences and involved present. The bleachers have registered, as always, the sold out because of any Assisan is allowed to declare "I was not there."
Exciting the music with a choice of intense and engaging songs; appreciated the performance instrumental and vocal considered all in perfect harmony with scenes and processions. A party certainly succeeded for which it has been Ente expressed full satisfaction and always hope that The Calendimaggio could cross the borders of city ​​walls through the inclusion in the UNESCO World "intangible" heritage.ù

Assisi Antiquariato (Antiques) April 21st to May 1st, 2012 Bastia Umbra Pg

BASTIA UMBRA - "Assisi Antiques" off forty candles. The appointment with the national trade show, scheduled from April 21 to May 1 to the Bastia Umbra Umbriafiere Center, is - for all fans - a central event in the spring of ancient art. The event has become a quality label, and a complete picture of the varied treasures of the past.
Every year thousands of people (including a growing number of young) were visiting "Assisi Antiques". People in search of emotions and ideas, but above all a bargain. The antique, in fact, is again a good opportunity for those seeking long-term investments

Signorelli, the Reinessance Painter: 21st April to 21st August 2012 Perugia, Orvieto, Città di Castello

Luca Signorelli "de wit et pilgrim spirit" as he called the father of Raffaello, Giovanni Santi.

The exhibition is dedicated to Luca Signorelli (Cortona 1450-1523), one of the most important artists of the Renaissance, long active in Central Italy from 1472 to 1519, which was not dedicated a solo exhibition since 1953.

It will consist of three venues: the National Gallery of Umbria in Perugia, Orvieto in the Cathedral, the Museum of the Opera and the Church of Holy Apostles, in Citta di Castello in the Municipal Gallery.

The headquarters of the National Gallery of Umbria in Perugia will be shown the entire career of Luca Signorelli, with the exception of a few paintings of his maturity when presented in Città di Castello, where it will build a reflection on his artistic legacy.

The list of works, drawn from a broad scientific committee composed of some of the most influential scholars of the Italian Renaissance, gives an account of the ambition of the project, whose purpose is to document the learning experiences and dialogues with some woven by Luca Signorelli among the most gifted artists of his time frequented by youth (Verrocchio, Pollaiolo, the Flemish), who enriched his initial impression from Piero della Francesca, to participate in the largest shipyard in the late fifteenth century Italian decorative, the one of the Sistine Chapel, where Signorelli was able to deal with artists such as Perugino, Pinturicchio, Bartolomeo della Gatta, Botticelli and Ghirlandaio. It will be exhibited in the Gallery the altarpiece of S. Onofrio, preserved in the Capitular Museum of San Lorenzo of Perugia, Luca Signorelli, who resigned over the chapel of St. Onofrio in 1484, a work that constitutes a cornerstone of the early work and documenting the quality of the relationship joined the artist Jacopo Vagnucci the bishop of Perugia, who was also a native of Cortona.

The show will know the cultural vitality of Signorelli, careful interpreter of the classical tradition, admitted to attend the most refined circles Neoplatonists of Florence of Lorenzo the Magnificent. As well as presenting a large number of autographs and pictures of representative works of the artists who have most influence on its formation and its business matures, the Perugia location will document the rich, fascinating graphic production, attentive to modern research physiognomic and dynamic tension of body.

In the cathedral of Orvieto Signorelli painted the grand cycle of the Chapel of San Brizio (1499-1504), which represents the absolute top of a Renaissance painting. Inside the Museum Opera del Duomo will be found a space entirely dedicated to Signorelli and will be set up the restoration of Pala Paciano, open to the public and exposed to the Santa Maria Maddalena and the rare painting on tile terracotta in which ae painted Luca Signorelli and Niccolò Franchi.

In the monumental Palazzo Vitelli in Citta di Castello to the gunboat, built in the early sixteenth century by the magnate family which Signorelli tied himself from a young age, will set up the final product segment. For Vitelli family, Luca Signorelli created the portrait of Niccolò and his son Camillo and Vitellozzo; tifernati clients and other related works are of great importance. The altarpiece of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian (1498-1500 approx) of Signorelli, is displayed next to the only work of the master from Urbino still exists in Città di Castello the Banner of the SS. Trinity (1499 approx), and other works of Signorelli, the banner of St. John and the Pala di Santa Cecilia, preserved in the Palazzo Vitelli, home of the Municipal Art Gallery (Pinacoteca comunale). Will host a series of works tifernati predella by Signorelli painted to decorate the altar laid off in the last years of his career, in which it will be interesting to see the look of the landscape and figurative painter to details evocative and often unusual.

Following an established custom of the great exhibitions of Umbria Signorelli also be organized itineraries to sites that preserve the artist's works, especially in the Tiber valley: the little-known but fascinating frescoes with Stories of Passion, created by the painter from Cortona, around 1510, the Oratory of St. Creswell in Morra, the church-museum of Santa Croce Umbertide with a panel representing the Deposition from the Cross and in 1516, surpassing the current administrative boundaries, the banner of St. Anthony, in the church namesake of Sansepolcro. Not to mention that Cortona, his hometown, retains a number of masterpieces such as the Communion of the Apostles and the Lamentation over the Dead Christ in the Diocesan Museum.

I beg your pardon for the terrible translation!? Sorry, I done my best!

Last Minute - Hotel Porta Nuova - Assisi Pg, Umbria, Italy

Last Minute

- expires on 26/04/2012

Last Minute from 20th to 27th April 2012:

Valley View Double bed Room € 100,00

Superior Double bed Room € 110,00

Triple Room (double + 1 single) € 120,00

Rates are per night per room and inclusive of bed, continental buffet breakfast with table service for coffee, taxes, service, a car spot in our private area, wi-fi internet connection using your own computer.

Cot for babies 0-3 € 12,00 per night