Bungaro “I wanted to fly with my feet on the ground” tour 2024

Antonio Calò in art Bungaro is an elegant singer-songwriter and a craftsman of music who for over thirty years has written important pages of Italian and international songwriter music.

In his career, Bungaro has received numerous awards: among these, 4 Critics’ Awards at the Sanremo Festival, 2 Musicultura Awards, 3 Lunezia Awards, and a nomination for the Latin Grammy with Ivan Lins. In the cinema, he won the Silver Ribbons, the Ciak D’oro, and a David di Donatello nomination for the song of the eponymous film Perfetti Sconosciuti. He has written and collaborated with international artists such as Ivan Lins (Brazil), Youssou N’Dour (Senegal), Miùcha Buarque de Holanda (Brazil), Omar Sosa (Cuba), Paula Morelembaum (Brazil), Alejandro Sanz (Spain), Guinga (Brazil), Alireza Ghorbani (Iran), Ana Carolina (Brazil), Cesária Évora (Cape Verde), Kay McCarthy (Ireland), Tinkara (Slovenia).

He has collaborated with great figures of Italian show business such as Fiorella Mannoia, Ornella Vanoni, Malika Ayane, Ron, Neri Marcorè, Paola Cortellesi, Chiara Civello, Simona Molinari, Musica Nuda, Rocco Papaleo, Ambrogio Sparagna, and many others.

Marco Pacassoni has collaborated with Michel Camilo, John Patitucci, Antonio Sanchez, Alex Acuna, Horacio “el negro” Hernandez, Steve Smith, Bungaro, Malika Ayane. He has been a guest at numerous jazz festivals, to name the most important ones: Festival Jazz Lugano (Switzerland), Roccella Jonica Jazz Festival, Fano Jazz Festival, Locomotive Jazz Festival, Sant’Elpidio Jazz Festival, Festival International de la Musica di Gandia (Spain), Adams Percussion Festival (Netherlands), DrumWorld Festival (Netherlands), Amsterdam Marimba Festival (Netherlands), Summer Jazz Festival, Casa del Jazz in Rome, Blue Note in Milan, Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, Bimhuis Jazz in Amsterdam (Netherlands), Bravo Caffè in Bologna, EastShore Jazz Club (Beijing, China), La Plantation (Beijing, China), Salon 10 (Hong Kong, China), Peel Fresco (Hong Kong, China), Italian Cultural Institute in Beijing, Osaka, Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, and Hong Kong.

Silvia Manco is a pianist, singer-songwriter, and composer, and has recorded several albums under her name and in collaboration with artists such as Enrico Rava, Roberto Gatto, Dezron Douglas, Max Ionata, Maurizio Giammarco, Gegé Telesforo, and Lino Patruno.

She participates in Jazz events and festivals in Italy, Europe, the United States, Russia, Dubai, and Kazakhstan. In 2019, she released the album “Hip! The Blossom Darie Songbook” for Parco della Musica Records and Jando Music, an internationally flavored album in which Silvia Manco, with her American trio (Dezron Douglas on double bass and Jerome Jennings on drums), and with the contribution of two extraordinary special guests (Enrico Rava and Max Ionata).