The dinner at Fuori Orario was a watershed moment in the history of the From mother to daughter project. It’s the same old story, the one I tried to tell with Modena City Ramblers for a while: it’s not true that music is something musicians do. Music points to roots, and music and roots are too important to leave to musicians. Music is something everyone does, or should do, and that embodies, or should embody, an element of finding one’s place in the shared history of a community. Franco of FO says that what drove home so powerfully the dinner was the idea of singing at the dinner table: it’s not showbiz, is something we all do together. And he launched the slogan: “seven thousand people singing” ot the Liberation Day show (April 25th 1945 is the date we kicked the Nazi out of the country, so we made it into a major holiday). It reminds me of Barcamps: no spectators, only participants.

I’m thinking pretty hard at how to render this feeling in the context of a several thousand people open air gig. Franco launched the idea of printing some booklets with the most important lyrics (everybody knows Bella Ciao in Italy, but that shows people we mean business) and handing them out everywhere on the venue, We are going to record the show to make a live album out of it, so we will have a high quality recording of the seven thousand singing their heads off (I think of Bella Ciao and get the goosebumps as I type). But it would be nice to do something social on the web too.. some YouTube/Flickr/Twitter… anyone has an idea and some time to put on it?

UPD 2 marzo – mi segnalano che la conferma ufficiale della partecipazione delle mondine alla trasmissione non è ancora confermata. Aspettiamo con fiducia.

UPD 6 marzo – partecipazione delle mondine NON confermata. Si cerca un’altra occasione 🙁