LANCIANO BLUES FESTIVAL 2025

17 luglio 2025 - P.ZZA D'ARMI TORRI MONTANARE


Crystal Thomas using her voice as a positive influence and as encouragement. She enjoys lifting people up to be better, love better, and live better.

2020 Living Blues Award Winner Crystal Thomas is big and she’s bluesy, and raw. She can grind a note and use it any way she wants. After all, she grew up listening to Muddy and Jimmy Reed and Johnnie Taylor and rapped, too. Gritty music is in her blood. She sang before she talked. She belts it out in church, in juke joints, wowing the crowds in Hong Kong, Japan and Europe. This woman sings with the kind of raw emotion that makes you glad you are alive – even if life it tough. Crystal is the real deal. She can tell you about growing up in Mansfield, Louisiana in the deep country. She remembers playing DJ while her family played cards and picking up the trombone in fifth grade because her brother had it and her mom didn’t want to purchase another instrument.

Her new album “NOW DIG THIS (2021) by Dialtone Records pairs Crystal with a super-star band that includes Lucky Peterson on keys allows her to lean into the mic and sing. Lucky’s played with everyone – Otis Rush, Etta James, Bobby Bland. Johnny and Jason Moeller offer up guitar and drums – Johnny finding time between tours with the Thunderbirds and Jason with the cred that comes from backing artists from the Thunderbirds to Jewel Brown and Little Joe Washington. The big round sound bass player extraordinaire, Chuck Rainey – think Aretha, Fats Domino, Barbara Streisand, and hundreds more. Crystal Thomas’ songs are heartfelt, soulful arrangements that whet the appetite for more.

Like a good gumbo, Crystal Thomas has all the right ingredients to feed your soul. Louisiana-born Crystal “Country Girl” Thomas travels all over the world to perform in many venues. She easily relates to other cultures and her music is universally embraced by all.


She regularly performs toghether with well known European guitar virtuoso Luca Giordano, bringing a mix of complicity and fun on stage between the two at every performance!

“Luca’s guitar playing alone was worth coming to this performance.
Luca Giordano, that is BB King, Otis Rush, Jimmy Johnson and Magic Sam combined into one fine man
who is the personification of elegance, while making the craziest faces!”
FRANKY BRUNEEL – BACK TO THE ROOTS MAGAZINE BELGIUM

“… a talisman of tone, phrasing, discipline and swingin spirit …
… inspiration goes hand by hand with tradition”
FRANK JOHN HADLEY – DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE USA

“Blending blues, jazz and funk in a very soulful manner, Giordano shows us he is one of the premier bluesmen from the European continent and that he can hang with the best of them in the blues world.
His songwriting shows maturity and complexity. His musicianship is faultless and the band is up to his challenge as they, too, deliver each song with gusto and intense feeling.
Highly recommended to blues lovers who want to hear what the Blues is all about and what the Blues can be.”
STEVE JONES – CROSSROAD BLUES SOCIETY ILLINOIS USA

19 luglio 2025 - P.ZZA D'ARMI TORRI MONTANARE

IL PROGETTO

La musica di Pino Daniele, una leggenda della scena musicale italiana, continua a vivere e a respirare attraverso “Nero a metà Experience”, un progetto musicale che si propone di celebrare l’eredità dell’artista napoletano.

“Nero a metà Experience” è più che un concerto; è un incontro intimo con l’anima della musica di Pino Daniele, eseguita da coloro che lo hanno conosciuto eaccompagnato nel suo percorso artistico.

Gigi De Rienzo, Ernesto Vitolo e Agostino Marangolo, collaboratori storici e parte integrante del suono unico che ha caratterizzato la carriera di Daniele, saranno al centro di questo progetto emozionante. Attraverso di loro, l’essenza delle canzoni di Daniele – con un focus particolare sull’iconico album “Nero a metà” – sarà rivisitata e arricchita da nuove interpretazioni.

Sul palco con Jerry Popolo (sax), Carlo Fimiani (chitarra), Emilia Zamuner (voce), Savio Vurchio (voce), Greg Rega (voce). L’obiettivo di “Nero a metà Experience” va oltre il ricordo di un artista scomparso prematuramente; mira a mantenere viva la sua visione artistica, permettendo alla sua musica di evolversi e di continuare a toccare le corde dell’anima di ascoltatori vecchi e nuovi. L’evento vedrà la partecipazione di musicisti e cantanti di alto profilo, selezionati per la loro capacità di interpretare lo spirito delle opere di Daniele, garantendo al contempo una freschezza e un’intensità emotiva che promettono di rendere ogni concerto un’esperienza indimenticabile. “Nero a metà Experience” è un invito aperto a tutti coloro che desiderano celebrare la vita e l’arte di Pino Daniele, un’opportunità unica per ascoltare dal vivo la musica di uno degli artisti più influenti e amati della scena musicale italiana, la cui opera continua a influenzare e ispirare.

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