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PRESS RELEASE (7/23/2013)
Medal of the President of the Republic at City of Loano National Award for Italian Traditional Music. For the sixth year the Loano Prize was granted the prestigious award, which places the festival among the most culturally significant national projects.
The award, which features the artistic direction of journalist John Vignola, is 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 Liguria Region, A. Foundation De Mari, Double J Ltd. Supermarket Management and the sponsorship of the Savona Province, of the’ANCI and the MEI.
Wednesday, July 24 the fourth day of the festival, will open, at 4 p.m., in Palestro Square, with the Sardinian Dances Stage led by Lucius Atzei e 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.
At 6:30 pm, in the Nassiriya Fallen Gardens will take place the “Prize Meet ...” dedicated to the presentation of the volumes “Thatofthestoryteller”. Guests of the meeting will be. George Vezzani, founder of the historic folklore and folk traditions magazine “The Storyteller.”, Giampaolo and Agnese Pesce, Ligurian storytellers, Gianni Gili, Piedmontese storytellers, who will dialogue with journalist Enrico de Angelis. The focus of the conversation will be on the history of the magazine and its field research, the collection of interviews with storytellers in Emilia Romagna, unpublished articles, and the presentation of the listening guide to the two anthology discs dedicated to the storytellers of Emilia Romagna, all accompanied by moments of entertainment.
At 9:30 pm, in the Maccagli Garden Cultural Space on the waterfront, the artist Mario Incudine will rely on the Sicilian language (not without leaving room for Italian as well) to address the audience and tell-in an encounter of light and shadow-stories of our time. The sounds are those blossomed and mixed in the Mediterranean basin, associated with drums and electric guitars that inscribe his musical project in the most contemporary world music.
During the evening the artist will be presented with the Best Record of the Year Award 2012. The award for the best musical production of 2012 was decreed by a prestigious jury of more than sixty music journalists with the following justification, “To the “Italia Talìa” disc” by Mario Incudine because, in addition to reaffirming the Sicilian artist's great talent for set to music storytelling (in this case, in the language of his region), he relaunches his path on memory as a starting point to go, decisively, elsewhere. An original way of reclaiming an identity: an increasingly elusive yet central term, not only in the sphere of “traditional” music. An album that opens new doors wide to those who want to try their hand at a happily impure genre that has to come to terms as much with the present as with the past.”
The artist will be accompanied by Antonio Vasta (accordion, accordion organ and paru bagpipe), Antonio Putzu (woodwinds), Pine Ricosta (bass), Emanuele Rinella (battery), Manfredi Tumminello (electric guitar).
Mario Incudine, singer, actor, researcher, musician and soundtrack author, is one of the most representative figures of the new Italian world music. He collaborates effectively with Simone Cristicchi, Ambrogio Sparagna, Lucilla Galeazzi, Nino Frassica, Mario Venuti, Tosca, Antonella Ruggiero and Kaballà. He duets with artists such as Francesco De Gregori, Lucio Dalla, Peppe Servillo, Alessandro Haber and Francesco Di Giacomo. As a singer and musician, he is a member of the Italian Popular Orchestra of the Parco della Musica Auditorium in Rome. He is the director of the Orchestra EtnoMediterranea, a formation of 18 musicians from all areas of the Maghreb. He composes the soundtracks for the shows ’Fuori luogo“ with Barbara Tabita and Filippo Luna, the ”Cosmorama“ with Giacomo Civiletti and Giorgio Li Bassi and ”Sotto un velo di sabbia“ with Alessandro Haber and Caterina De Regibus. He stars in two editions of the Festino di Santa Rosalia in Palermo. He lands at the 2010 Sanremo Festival together with Nino D'Angelo, interpreting some parts of the song ”Jammo Jà“ in the Sicilian language. He participates in the most important festivals in Italy: from Umbria Jazz to the Negro Festival, from the Kaulonia Tarantella Festival directed by Eugenio Bennato to the Notte della Taranta and finally Claudio Baglioni wants him as a guest in his prestigious festival ”“O scià’ in Lampedusa.{:}
