Settefrati held a kind of magic for Burgos, whose mother, Mary, died 11 years ago. “She was the capo of the Four-Foot-Nothing Gang,” her son said. “He was our groupie,” said Giordano, who sang the first part of Procol Harem’s “Whiter Shade of Pale” in English Bernardelli finished it in Italian.Īnd there was Socci’s mother, Nilde Socci, who was born in Settefrati and spent part of each day reminiscing in the piazza with her friends - all over 80, the matriarchs of their families and short. There was Vincenzo Bernardelli, who attended their rehearsals, copied down their song list then announced the titles when the band performed. “A man,” Socci said, “ready to have fun at a moment’s notice.” There was Pompeo Socci, who was born in Settefrati, moved to Ireland and then moved back. You see them every day, sitting where they usually sit,” Tepper said. “Their lives happen between their house and the piazza. There were a lot of “characters,” Tepper said. Then, after a while, we were in the movie.” “I’ve never been in a place like that,” he said. Things were kind of quirky, Giordano said. A small one rings every 15 minutes, day and night, and a large one rings on the hour. It’s odd, then, how religiously the church bells mark time. “It’s so beautiful, but everything is slow - going up the mountain, going down the mountain,” said bass player Allan Tepper.
“They’re out there playing cards in the middle of the night,” Socci said.
It’s the center of the universe,” said Mike Giordano, singer and keyboardist in the band. Then they’re up for the whole night.”Īs the sun rises, however, people are in the piazza, cleaning it with straw brooms. everybody goes inside and passes out for a couple of hours. The air is so nice,” said Gerard Diacri, percussionist in the band. “You get up in the morning, you walk outside. This year Socci assembled a group of musician friends into a band they called Eight-Track Playback to perform during the feast, which celebrates the long-ago story of a miracle the Madonna performed for a Settefratese shepherd girl.īand members spent nearly two weeks in the heart of the tiny town of narrow streets and attached houses, with a church that offers la bella veduta - “the beautiful view” of the Apennine Mountains.
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