wed 21 jan 2026 21:00 hrs
Filippo Gambetta – master of both buttons and strings.
Like his father Beppe, the Italian Filippo Gambetta has a fondness for strings. In his case, however, it is less the guitar than the bandolim, the ten-string variant of the mandolin popular in Brazil. Alongside this, he trained on the organetto under none other than Riccardo Tesi, an ‘extended’ version of the accordion with three rows of buttons instead of the usual two. While his 2009 album Andirivieni still had a mainly European flavour, on their new album Choropo Gambetta and his partner Scotto D’Aniello take a surprising turn towards South America, with Brazilian choro and Venezuelan joropo.
