Born in Bologna in 1992 by a small group of musicians with the break in the psychiatric hospital ‘Roncati’ di Bologna (from which it takes its name), the band has grown and now has a staff ranging from ten to thirty items, includes woodwinds, brass, percussion, vocals, dance.

The group is distinguished by unorthodox roles: there is no director, nor the single composer or arranger, proposals and arrangements are collective. The repertoire ranges from classical to jazz, folk dances, the songs politicians, song writing, to pop / rock 80s.

La Banda Roncati has performed in hundreds of occasions: in situations of collective celebration, anger or pain in the official events and in those immigrants; derivative psychogeographical; in street festivals and at international meetings, in the pouring rain in Milan on the anniversary of the Liberation and in the blazing sun to defend the hill from the threat Bolognese opening of new quarries, in political demonstrations in defense of rights, alongside young people, workers, immigrants, homosexuals, the homeless ; in situations of marginality as public dormitories, hospitals, prisons.