“GOOD BONANNO”
Christmas Carols of Popular Tradition

The Trillanti, a folk music group from Alatri, are the promoters of a unique and rare project: “Bonì Bonanno”. The title draws its inspiration from an ancient song of almsgiving that was performed in Alatri and Ciociaria on the night of December 31st by musicians who, moving from house to house, wanted to express to anyone who found themselves on their path the wish that the coming year could be better than the previous one and full of satisfactions, “good” indeed. It is precisely to celebrate this song, maieuta of the entire show, that we wanted to give the project the same title.
“Bonì Bonanno” thus becomes a means to systematize all the research in the musical field of an ethno-anthropological nature that I Trillanti have carried out over the last five years with the aim of bringing back into fashion peasant culture as well as a way of experiencing the festivities by singing and dancing, and a tool for disseminating a past that is necessary to know in order to understand the present and project oneself into the future.
The concert - lasting 1 hour and 30 minutes - is divided into 14 stages, each of which represents a piece of popular tradition. Pieces, therefore, that will accompany us from the Immaculate Conception until New Year's Eve.
The entire concert will be performed by the musicians of the group with the participation of Gino Fiorini, the last singer and custodian of the song "Bonì Bonanno". In particular, the following will play for the audience: Mattia Dell'Uomo (voice, drums and percussion), Simone Frezza (voice and accordion), Valerio Frezza (voice and guitars), Alessandro Magnante (electric bass and flutes), Danilo Zovini (bagpipes, flutes and shawms), Samuele Ceci (accordion and percussion), Elisabetta Rossi (voice), Pierpaolo Rossi (viola and violin), Maria Carmen Di Poce (narrator, drums and castanets).
The overwhelming music, the harmonious rhythms, will fill the air with color and joy, enveloping with their cloak a Nativity that plays, dances and sings. From “Jesus who incarnated” to the “Novena”, to listen (and listen again) with the heart to the ancient tales of a Ciociaria capable of blending the agro-pastoral sounds of bagpipes and ciaramelle – central elements of this show – with the strings of a guitar or the rattles of a drum. What awaits you is a magical experience capable of transporting you along a path of light and hope, a river that slowly flows, that takes its course, that gently cradles. The popular world thus comes back to life, once again, between wood and straw.