I hear the roar of the cannon

On Saturday, February 22 at 5 PM in Susa, at the Castle of Adelaide, a musical show I Hear the Roar of the Cannon by the group Blu l'azard.

A show of sounds, words, music, and songs about The Great War and folk singing by Franco Castelli and Emilio Jona, organized by the music group Blu L'azard.
The text, freely adapted from the book: “To the Roar of the Cannon” by Castelli-Jona-Lovatto, concerns the orality of the popular world and observes from below, through song, that epoch-making, dramatic, and bloody event that closed the Belle Epoque and opened to modernity, dragging Europe into a mass war with new means of death, a war that involved a huge number of men en masse in an unprecedented slaughter.
What dominates this song is the memory and the longing for a lost world, that of the small homeland where one was born and of the affections for distant mothers, fathers, spouses, children, and girlfriends, and together, the aversion to a war whose reasons are not understood.
The show traverses this rich heritage of orality where all genres of tradition are often present in parodic form, from the epic-lyric song to that of the storytellers and the consumption song, creating a fresco that the music group offers us harmonized in an instrumental and vocal intertwining, philologically rigorous, that captivates and moves.
Events and thoughts drawn from the war diaries of soldiers from the Susa Valley are present in the original mother tongue, Franco-Provençal.

With:
• Flavio Giacchero: bass clarinet, soprano sax, bagpipes, voice
• Luca Teghillo: chromatic accordion, acoustic guitar, voice
• Marzia Rey: violin, voice
• Marco Rey: voice of the events and thoughts of Val Susa

As part of the stenth edition of "Chantar l'Uvèrn. From Epiphany to Easter, fragments of Occitan, Franco-Provençal and French language and culture": a cultural showcase that enhances original creations and promotes the Occitan, Franco-Provençal and French language and culture through a rich and widespread territorial animation with musical, theatrical, anthropological, documentary, and environmental events.