Formed in 2003 by a Scotsman and a Sardinian, Band-Re’s show was developed gigging in outback Sardinia.
Barnaby Brown
voice, Montgomery smallpipe, triplepipes, whistles, Great Highland bagpipe
Barnaby (Glasgow) abandoned the bagpipe when he was 13 to pursue the orchestral flute. Ten years later he saw the light, returned to the classical music of the pipes and settled in 17th-century Scotland. He was in the middle of studying Gaelic when an ancestor of the bagpipe took him back another thousand years and transplanted him to Sardinia. Gianluca found him playing the triplepipe by a bronze-age fort and has been coaxing him back into the 21st century ever since.
Gianluca Dessì
guitar, bouzouki
Gianluca (Sassari) was too much of a maverick to stick the conservatoire and left to make his mark on the folk music scene doing what he does best—his own thing. That said, he couldn’t resist the urge to go back and study ethnomusicology. Gianluca spends a great deal of time on his mobile, organising concerts for other artists and regularly taking Sardinian musicians abroad. Described as “the best Celtic sound ever to come out of Italy,” Gianluca prefers to reserve judgement.
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