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PRESS RELEASE (22/07/2013)
He continues, at Loano, the ninth edition of the City of Loano National Award for Italian Traditional Music, organized by the’Society of the Curious Association in collaboration with the’Department of Tourism and Culture of the City of Loano, with contributions from the A. Foundation De Mari and the sponsorship of the Liguria Region, of Province of Savona, of the’ANCI and the MEI.
Tuesday, July 23, to the 4 p.m., in Palestro Square, will kick off the Sardinian Dances Stage with Lucio Atzei organized in collaboration with the’ Bala in riva a u ma Association. The free internship offers a first approach to the repertoire of Sardinian dances, giving priority consideration to the dances of the teacher's native geographic area, namely the Campidano of Oristano and Marmilla.
Lucius Atzei began his long journey at the age of fifteen in the Popular Dances Group of the town in the province of Oristano. In the early 1980s in Milan he began teaching Sardinian dances as part of courses, internships and study seminars, and over more than 30 years he has promoted the Sardinian repertoire in his region and throughout Italy.
At 18.30, in the Nassiriya Fallen Gardens On the waterfront, the meeting will be held. “An Apulian in Milan: tribute to Enzo Jannacci.” with Paolo Jannacci, Osvaldo Ardenghi and John Vignola,
Enzo Jannacci's stories in the Milan of the 1950s and 1960s also made use of dialect. Despite, or perhaps because of, his Apulian origins on his father's side, Enzo was able to describe with impressive linguistic property the suburbs of a metropolis still seeking some redemption, light years away from the Milan to drink That would come, with so much clang, to almost clear the air, 
30 years later. The Milan of Enzo Jannacci, an LP that lined up places (Rogoredo, L'idroscalo, Piazza Beccaria) and people (the prostitute, the ingenue, the desperate thief) with an unrepeatable humanity, also abetted by the use of Milanese speech. A piece like El purtava i scarp del tennis, anti-hymn of the dispossessed of a whole city.
The City of Loano Prize will tell this aspect of Enzo Jannacci's work with his son, Paul, and with Osvaldo Ardenghi, his friend and collaborator, who recently found himself staging one of his plays: it will also be a way to remember an artist beyond any genre other than that, universal, of poetry.
At 21.30, in the Maccagli Garden Cultural Space, on the waterfront, opening the evening will be the performance of Alfio Antico, which will receive the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award for “his relevance to traditional music, which he has interpreted with a passion for roots and an awareness of the present, reknitting threads that are all but invisible-those of the tammorra and rural life, of the call of earth and sky - and reviving them in the contemporary.” In his hands, the drum expresses unthinkable sonorities that make one understand the infinite resources of this albeit simple instrument. Alfio adds to it his poetic vein, expressed in the language he knows best, Sicilian; his natural theatricality is disruptive.
The journey will continue in the Mediterranean with Raiz and the Bari group Radicanto who together will weave the Greek-Salentine tradition and singing Sephardic, the Neapolitan song and Portuguese fado, i North African rhythms and those from the Middle East and Asia. along with signature songs by Raiz and Almamegretta, rhythmically and elegantly reinterpreted in a deconstructed key and brought back to its essence.
“Home” is the record project born from the meeting of Raiz, historical voice of Almamegretta, with the Bari-based folk music group Radicanto. At the same time it is also a metaphor for a place of imaginary Mediterranean, mestizo music, where we meet to exchange atmospheres and sensations. The sound universe of Raiz's voice will meet the echoes of the strings, skins and papyruses that form the instruments of Radicanto. From the magical union of these two worlds comes the tale of a story that begins but has no end, because it continues within us, in the Mediterranean we carry within us.
On the stage next to Raiz will play Fabrizio Piepoli (vocals, electric bass), Joseph De Trizio (classical guitar), Adolfo Lavolpe (electric guitar), Francis De Palma (battery). {:}
