Starting from May 1st, 2025, ironworking, a distinctive feature of the local identity, finds its exhibition space in the city: the “Lodovico Giordani” Iron Museum of San Bartolomeo permanently reopens its doors.
The museum is located in a forge with an attached iron tool grinding workshop, repurposed for museum use by Fondazione Civiltà Bresciana since the mid-1980s. Granted on loan to Fondazione MUSIL, the spaces now host a historical reconstruction in dialogue with the present: from the operation of grinding wheels to the various ironworking cycles, from the origins of industrial Brescia to hydraulic wheels, the exhibit alternates artifacts and old photographs with models and videos of contemporary landscapes, technologies, and voices.
On the day of the museum's reopening, at 5:00 PM, the concert "Working Man Blues. Labor in American Music of the Short Century" is scheduled.
Workers, housewives, miners, shop assistants, soldiers, truck drivers, nurses... the characteristic figures of the American working class, almost completely absent from the poetics of rock music, instead populate the lyrics of some of the most popular genres of American popular music, particularly country music, blues and soul, and 1950s rock'n'roll.
The concert-lecture offers a commented selection of songs, from the 1930s to the 1990s, that tell the story of the American world of work.
Michele Dal Lago | guitar and vocals
Aimone Gronchi | guitar, mandolin and vocals
Admission: €5.00
For information and reservations: sanbartolomeo@musilbrescia.it - Tel. 340 60 86 855