Music is the big star of ’Summer at Loano,“ the extensive calendar of events that is enlivening and will still enliven Loano's Summer 2022 for many weeks.
The first, big event was Antonella Rettore's free concert held on Saturday, June 25 at the “White Night”, the long marathon of entertainment promoted by the City of Loano in collaboration with Comitato Loanese and Fipe-Confcommercio. In addition to the event in Italy Square, concerts by rock bands, cover bands, and jazz groups were held at a dozen other locations in the city.
And also in Italy Square will be held, on August 27, the long-awaited concert of Mahmood organized by the City of Loano together with Strobe srl. Recovering from his second participation in the Eurovision Song Contest (Turin, May 10-14, 2022) and his success at the 72nd Sanremo Festival, where he won with “Brividi” with Blanco, the most listened to song ever in one day on Spotify Italy with 3,384,192 streams in just 24 hours after release and certified triple platinum, Mahmood opened his summer tour on July 7 at the Cavea Parco Della Musica in Rome. He will then touch virtually all of Italy to arrive at Loano for a concert that will provide strong emotions. Among the songs with which Mahmood will perform on stage are not only the very successful unreleased tracks from his latest album “Ghettolimpo” and the Sanremese “Brividi,” but also some of the most beloved hits from his less recent record projects, such as “Gioventù Bruciata” and the single “Dorado,” featuring Sfera Ebbasta and Feid. Here is Mahmood's possible concert setlist also based on his recent performances for the Ghettolimpo Tour 2022 in clubs in Italy and Europe: “Gods,” “Ghettolimpo,” “Kisses from Tunisia,” “Inuyasha,” “The Nile in the Nile,” “Eternantena,” “Dorado,” “Remo,” “Burnt Youth,” “Icarus is Free,” “Kobra,” “Rubies,” “Karma,” “I Love You,” “Barrio,” “Talata,” “Rapids,” “Chills,” and “Money.”.
From July 12 to 14 at Loano will stage “CUBE LIVE - places, ideas, voices, events”, the itinerant review of live performances promoted by CUBO, the Unipol Group's business museum, which will take place in five particularly evocative venues in Bologna, Milan, Turin, Liguria and Versilia. Pop and rock artists, jazz concerts, classical music and theater will enliven the summer evenings with stimulating proposals and performances that live up to CUBO's style. As for Loano, a concert by Marlene Kuntz will be held on July 12 in Piazza Italia, while on July 13 and 14, Loano's beautiful Marina Yacht Club setting will host performances by Marina Rei and the Alfredo Rodriguez Trio, respectively.
On July 23 in the library concert of the’Ambrosian Academy of Milan.
From July 28 to 30, the events related to the City of Loano National Prize for Italian Traditional Music, the most prestigious award for traditional music in Italy. Concerts, meetings with authors and in-depth discussions with leading exponents of the genre will characterize, as always, the event organized by the Company of the Curious.
On Saturday, August 6, “Universe in Pink”, the event to benefit Loano's “Artemisia Gentileschi” listening desk. The day will begin at 6 a.m. on the Kursaal Pier with a classical music concert featuring Paola Arecco and Gianni Collo. At 9 p.m. in Piazza Italia concert with “I Divina.” The evening will be hosted by Elena Ballerini.
August 10 in Italy Square “music festival” with dj-set by Strobe Ltd.
On Friday, August 19, also in Italy Square, “Maria Rosa Raimondi, who is she? Of Giuseppe Garibaldi mother is she”, the musical produced by the seaside association Lodanum that reconstructs the life of the Hero of Two Worlds' mother, who was born in Loano.
Literature and music will be the stars of the “Sunrise Readings” with musical accompaniment to be held Aug. 21 in the early hours of the day on the Kursaal Pier. The event is held as part of “LOA Reads in Every Corner Summer,” the calendar of literary events promoted by Monica Maggi's Atuttotondo in collaboration with Aps #cosavuoichetilegga and the Mondadori Bookstore at Loano.
On August 26 in Italy Square concert of the Pesto Darkness, who will present their 14th album, released just this year on the occasion of their 25th anniversary. The CD is double and contains the 42 most important songs in Buio Pesto's discography, from “Belinlandia,” the first released in 1995, to “Missione Luna,” released on July 20, 2019 on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 space mission landing on the Moon.
There will also be no shortage of events specially designed for music lovers. Such as the evenings of “Listening Guide” organized by the’Loanese Music Association-City Polyphonic Choir Loano, which will take participants on a discovery of the best-known and well-known arias of classical music and beyond; or the concerts to be held in the Oratory of Our Lady of the Rosary and organized by the confraternity of the Turchine Hoods (on July 27 with Paola Arecco, Mattia Pelosi AND Silvia Schiaffino, on August 24 organ concert, last event on September 3); or the other events scheduled in Piazza Italia, the heart of Loano's historic center, promoted by the’St. Mary Immaculate Music Association (on July 22 with the “Antonio Forzano” band ensemble from Savona and then again on Aug. 11 and Sept. 11), by the City of Loano Poilfonico Choir (on July 21, while on Aug. 25 the concert will move to Mount Carmel).
Space is also given to ballroom dancing on Tuesday, August 2, in Piazza Italia evening with Peter Galassi and on August 18 with Omar Codazzi and Franco Bagutti.
