Friday 10 May at 8.30pm in Sassari at the Vecchio Mulino the show "Mamma mia gimme cento lire: stories and songs of emigration", preview of the festival "Thoughts and Words: books and films at Asinara". On stage Daniela Cossiga with Gabriele Cau (guitar), Roberto Mura (horn), Antonio Papa (double bass), Davide Soddu (violin), Graziano Solinas (accordion). Arrangements by Davide Soddu, lyrics and direction by Sante Maurizi.
The show ideally follows two laborers who emigrated from Sardinia with their families in 1897. Francesco Delrio from Bonorva and Pietro Casula from Santu Lussurgiu were fleeing from bad harvests, from phylloxera, from the olive oil fly. They fled poverty and disease: a fragment of history between Sardinia, the Ocean, Brazil, Asinara. The stories and songs of "Mamma mia dammi cento lire" want to pay homage to that epic, but also to stimulate reflection on ourselves: on being us, today, like those communities that saw millions of immigrants arrive. same routes as our grandparents with the same pain and the same determination to find a new home and a better life.