PRESS RELEASE (4/03/2015)
Saturday, March 7, a Loano, the Northwest Italy territorial concert-selection of the competition “Playing at Folkest - Alberto Cesa Award“, which will entitle the top two finishers to participate in the final evenings of Folkest 2015, the historic festival that has been held for 35 years in Friuli during the month of July.
The initiative anticipates the’eighth edition of“FLYING DISCS...CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH records, books, words and sounds.”, promoted by the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano and organized by the’Society of the Curious Association, Which will take place between April and May this year.
At 21.00, in the Council Chamber of the Doria Palace, Competing musically will be the artists Sergio Pennavaria, Francis Alessandrini e The Pentatonic.
Sergio Pennavaria, who for the occasion will be accompanied by the musicians Lorenzo Piccone (Acoustic and electric guitar), Luciano Puppo (electric bass, double bass), Alexander Gratian (acoustic guitar, violin) and Loris Lombardo (drums, percussion) is a Savonese singer-songwriter of Sicilian origin.
In 2011 with his first album “Without Light Randomly in the Dark,” a record that received good reviews, he won the Head Up Contest,.
Pennavaria, a histrionic and off-the-cuff artist, in his musical tales he collects fragments of the daily bewilderment, distant emotions, pieces of life that belong to him. His sweet and rough voice and circus sounds give incommunicable emotions, because they are strongly intimate.
Francis Alessandrini, the Merchant, describes himself as a storyteller who does not limit himself to storytelling, but uses his whole body and his instruments to narrate the characters he has encountered over time. One Man Band playing instruments he designed and built, Alessandrini offers a Folk repertoire that is pressing, yet profound at the same time. Primarily a street performer, he draws great expressive power from his artistic background, which ranges from theater to acrobatics, from contemporary dance to singing, from music to juggling.
Pentatonica is a chamber ensemble formed in May 2011, consisting of four young musicians - Chiara Viganò 14 years old (transverse flute and piccolo), Alice Viganò 12 years old (clarinet and bass clarinet), David Biarese 16 (guitars), Alberto Biarese 16 years old (piano) - directed by Alberto Viganò (trumpet, soprano flugelhorn, guitar and percussion), who takes care of arrangements and direction. The guideline is experimentation with various musical genres, from cultured music to pop music, from folk to jazz and recently even a part of original repertoire, all declined on the expressive possibilities of the group.
