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Luciana and Aristo celebrate 60 years of marriage
The divorce rate in Italy catapulted 74 percent between 1995 and 2005, according to a study by the national statistics* institute. In 1995, 158 of 1,000 married couples were separated and 80 were...
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Nicolao and Aristo duet – the one that (almost) got away
During the night between Saturday and Sunday the clocks go back an hour in Italy. This morning the temperature dropped below freezing for the first time this season and so yes, we are definitely...
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The legend that was Aristodemo Casciani is no more
Aristodemo Casciani during this year's Barga in Jazz Festival The news started to filter through the city just after midday today and by three ‘o clock it was no longer a rumour but was now the truth –...
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Strike outside Aristo’s in Barga Vecchia
There was already a good deal of polemic earlier on this week about Aristo’s bar in Barga Vecchia being shut during July (article here) The bar which is universally recognised as the unofficial...
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The DA ARISTO comic is back
An anonymous comment left on the barganews.com website during the summer of 2007 was part of the catalyst that spawned a new feature on barganews and now which after a gap of a couple of years has once...
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The Aristodemo’s back in rehearsals for spring relaunch
There have been rumours floating around the Piazza for the past few weeks but today those rumours now become fact: shock, horror, probe – the Aristodemo’s have decided to call it a day after...
View ArticleA change is coming
Aristodemo Casciani had appeared many, many times on barganews – in fact he has his own category here on the site, his own comic strip DA ARISTO here and even a group playing Italian swing from the...
View ArticleIl Casciani 3.0: Buoni propositi e favorevoli auspici
Just published on the social networks is an open letter/ article with its central point the changing of the guard at Aristo’s – the famous bar in Barga Vecchia which has been without a doubt the...
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Four years ago today, Aristodemo played his last tune
From the barganews archives we republish article from 4th October 2010: The news started to filter through the city just after midday today and by three ‘o clock it was no longer a rumour but was now...
View ArticleSinger, songwriter and poet, Ian Bland in Barga
This week there has been a visitor to Barga who arrived from the other side of the world with his family to spend a few days here but they enjoyed themselves so much that they extended their holiday...
View ArticleScotland: Music written specially for The Aristodemos
Back in 2014 we published an article about the Scottish folk musicians, Linsey Aitken and Ken Campbell who are regular visitors to the city and mentioned that once again their particular sound was...
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