Davide Ferrario and Andrea Zambelli, producer and director of “Mondine – From mother to daughter” (the documentary about Mondine di Novi and Fiamma Fumana. I write about this here and here) have decided to move the film premiere from the spring to the Fall 2008. And for a very good reason: there is a lot of very high quality footage, they need extra time to edit it and make a wonderful film, that will make people laugh and cry. So we decided to reform and relaunch the project’s blog: also, we will do several things with the Novi choir from here to the Fall. We have a new domain (mondine.it) and a new group, with my old friend Valeria Carletti as the main blogger and a more recent friend, Freddy Mascheretti, to take care of the relevant technology. We have a guru too, Luca “Vanz” Vanzella of Daimon and Maestrini per caso: he has been so kind as to give us some good advice over dinner (Eritrean restaurant), but of course he bears no responsibility over our modest, utterly unprofessional blogging efforts. And good luck to us! You can find the new blog here./
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Natale con i tuoi: festa dalle mondine
Bellissima festa a Novi: un pranzo per festeggiare il Natale con le Mondine. Si è mangiato (benissimo, come sempre quando ci sono di mezzo le signore), si è cantato molto e si sono ascoltati “pezzi” di teatro popolare in dialetto fatti dal Gruppo Padano di Piadena, che tra l’altro cantano BENISSIMO, sono una specie di mondine maschi. Una bellissima scoperta! Le mondine hanno anche fatto un “pezzo teatrale” a tema natalizio tutto loro, intitolato “Se i Re Magi fossero donne”. Da manuale Agnes che faceva il bue con un cartello “mucca pazza”. Grandiose. Buon Natale a tutte!
Christmas lunch with mondine
Great party in Novi: a big meal to celebrate Christmas with mondine. We ate (excellently, as always when these ladies are involved), we sang a lot and we enjoyed sketches of folk theatre (in dialect) by the Gruppo Padano di Piadena, who by the way sing VERY well, they are a sort of male mondine. A nice discovery! Mondine also set up a Christmas-themed theatrical piece of their own titled “If the three Kings were women”: Agnes was particularly unforgettable as the Ox, with a sign saying “mad cow” hanging from her neck. Great stuff. Happy Christmas to all!