For 21 years the constant search for new sensations and new stimuli has enabled us to continue developing the friendship and collaborative spirit that grew out of music and in particular our own music. Over the years we have enjoyed the company of many fellow-travelers on our adventures, all of whom have played an important part in our life. But the challenge of a live album is perhaps the most important step yet for us because it represents the fruit of several years hard work performed stripped down to its raw essence with no studio trickery but with all the merits and flaws of the group which ore perhaps made more evident by the unadulterated live sound sensation of Folk & Noble Jig. Joining the seven of us for the occasion are Elisa on flute along with the string orchestra who we wanted to baptize Folk and Noble Jig, since it is composed of professional classical musicians who offered their active support for a series of concerts in the Summer of 1998 where they shared the stage with us in many cities and at many festivals all over ltaly, and were perhaps infected with some of our folk spirit. On this album, along with several new pieces composed and arranged by Claudio we've included some old favorites which, reworked live with the orchestra, have we think acquired a new flavor.

Ospite
Elisa Berdin: flauto traverso

Orchestra Folk & Noble Jig
Violini Primi: Davide Nicolini, Massimo Pavan, Maria Cristina Vicentini, Lucia Campagnari, Dania Bejanova
Violini Secondi: Francesco Spagnoli, Irene Pedrollo, Samuel Angeletti, Anna Chiara Fasson, Marta Cosaro
Viole: Lorella Baldin, Michele Sguotti
Violoncelli: Roberto Carrisi, Martina Marchiori, Nicoletta De Vito, Elisabetta Cagni
Contrabbasso: Gianfranco Spigolon

Direttore: Matteo Carrisi

Tutti gli arrangiamenti per gruppo e orchestra sono di Claudio Bettega

Tecnici del suono live in Teatro:
Stefano Dinarello e Matteo Pellizzari (Centro Musica -VI)
Tecnici del suono in studio:
Stefano Dinarello e Claudio Bettega Masterizzazione: Marco Sabbatini

Produzione artistica ed organizzazione:
Paolo Sgevano
Executive production & Management: Music On

Fotografie: Gianfranco Rota
- Photo Studio UV (BG)
Cover photo: Villa Negri Ceroni (architect F. Muttoni) - Ospedaletto di Vicenza

It is difficult to reproduce all those sensations that you feel when you look at an Irish landscape, with its immense distances cradled by the sun and brushed by rainbows during those changeable summer days, when you hear the stories of scheming and indiscreet pixies and magic fairies, of life in the woodland, and of tricks and loves, innocent games and of all the characters that people the imaginary world of Celtic tradition and culture.
There are also stories - of the struggle for independence, which was denied for so long, of battles and wars, of suffering and victory - told in the famous Pubs and washed down by numerous pints of Guinness.
We have experienced all of this during our musical activities over the years and our concerts express all of this - it is Ireland, Scotland and Brittany, but it is above all our music, the fruit of our experience and the important contributions from others.

THEN
Claudio Bettega: chitarre, mandola, Yamaha DX7, mandolino, bouzouki, glockenspiel, basso elettrico, voce
Paolo Sgevano: flat-bouzouki, chitarre, basso elettrico, voce
Laura Rossi: voce
Pieregidio Spiller: violino
Gianni Albiero: flauto traverso
Tiziano Vedovato: bodhran, batteria, percussioni

Tecnico del suono: Renato Crivellaro
Registrazione: "Work-Music Studio" Montecchio Maggiore (VI)
Fotografia: Antonella De Guio

You will experience something here which is a little like a serenade, and which has allowed me to enter into the fairy story of this minstrel, these timeless troubadours, these bards from tne Po valley. They are dreamers, airy souls, fools without a master of a court. They are poets of sound, filtered out of the magic of the past and the mysteries of future. They are songsters for all seasons, and serenaders for all loves, restless nomads of the roads who amplify the silence of impossible desires and the sound of brief moments of happines. They are friends to suffering, like harmonies chained to melodic fantasies, and friends of words from far-off skies where white clouds are blown along together with the sweet smell of the sea. Here , you will have the chance, as i did, to experience something like a serenade, a tiniest part of the boundless expanses of this wonderful music.

Bepi De Marzi

Produced by "Antennauno" & "Artis Record"
Distribuited by "Artis Record"
Recorded at "Work Music Studio"
Montecchio M. (VI)
Sound engineer: Renato Crivellaro
Keyboards Programmer: Michele Paciulli
Front cover: picture by Ruggero Zambon
Photograps: Paolo Caneva
Graphic: Mauro Aldighieri
Special thanks to Renato Crivellaro for el. bass & drums arrangement on
"The Storm On The Hill", Michele Paciulli for his experience and fantasy, Sue Morris & Silvia Calamati for their collaboration, Roberto Bosco & Gianni Albiero.