Transumanza Tour
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The folk trio Vito e le Orchestrine set off on musical tour in search of woofing and new forms of rurality. On the six stages of their journey, they visit hospitable innovative farms and, working hard while having fun, seek to learn old skills that are as useful as ever today. Hence country landscapes, people and different customs that share the same desire to protect a world of the past and its traditions. They come across lifestyles which, by shunning the dominant economic models and returning to the land and its natural rhythms, offer a concrete response to questions such as degrowth and give their voice to an authentic new social phenomenon.
Two years ago, in July, I found myself almost by chance in Altavilla Milicia, a magical place between Palermo and Cefalù. The farm where I was staying was situated on a promontory between two hills. Hidden in the middle was the “valley of crows,” a tough stony area haunted by typically Sicilian folk tales where the only straight line visible was the one that divided the sky from the sea. I had only just got there when they asked me to go to the station to pick up Ethan, a guest from San Francisco. He had come as a woofer, which meant working on the farm in exchange for meals and lodgings in a sort of barter between human beings, knowledge and emotions. Ethan the Californian, who came from the place that had given life to the most liberal, alternative movements in the world was, arguably, the signal, the premonition of everything that was to enchant and fascinate me in the years to come, of everything that I attempt to tell you here, at last, together with the crew and Vito, Susanna and Arianna.
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