black music

Trasimeno Blues together with Umbria Jazz and Narni Black Festival have created a relevant centre of Black music in Umbria region that is now representing the crossroads of jazz, blues, soul, gospel and r&b: the roots of black music but also the roots of the most popular music in the world. The start of Black music is in the begining of the XX century across the black American communities but we all can see its evolution through the pop and rock music as a common heritage of the world. The aim of Umbria Black Music partnership is to explore, research and improve the black music as the throbbing heart of our life’s soundtrack. The three festivals share a big passion for the black music and some other characteristics. The first one is that everyone of those festival is very important for the territory and is based on the will to increase the value of  the local beauty and to hand in glove the music with the Umbrian landscape and identity. The power of this idea is in its contradiction: the neurotic contemporary music upsets the quite reality of natural beauty and ancient historical towns. The sound of the new world is assumed by the ancient world. The modern impulses meets the quiet of the traditions.