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From 26 at July 28, a Loano curtain will rise on the 13th 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’ANCI.
The City of Loano Award, under the artistic direction of John Vignola, promotes and enhances the contemporary production of traditional music with Italian roots through the involvement of artists, record labels, journalists and cultural workers.
The festival represents the crowning achievement of a permanent laboratory, which records what is happening in the contemporary production of Italian popular music. It is a time for meeting with the public and an opportunity to make known the many musical expressions that animate the cultural reality of our country.
“Traveling” is the title of the thirteenth edition of the festival, where the journey is one of tradition and welcome. Italian folk music was an expression of the peasant world, and once that archaic world crumbled, it followed history with its social transformations: wars, work, emigration. Always “traveling” it has told the encounter with other cultures, singing the daily stories of ordinary people (love, struggles, aspirations) and renewing itself each time.
The new millennium with the processes of globalization has resulted in population shifts from places of war and poverty to the old continent. These new migrations bring with them new histories. Cities become places of many languages and identities. New sounds and mixtures, but also new challenges that contemporary popular music tells us about with its ability to read fears and hopes.
The festival will gather these testimonies to offer itself as a space for reflection and growth.
The festival will open, on July 26 at 9:30 pm at Cloister of St. Augustine, with a concert by the winner of the Best Album Award 2016. Rachele Colombo who will present live the album “Cantar Venezia” (2016, Note), a modern songbook that recovers and repurposes the heritage of eighteenth-century Venetian boat songs, a small-great intangible heritage of humanity. A musical genre by anonymous composers that was widespread in the campielli, on Venetian shores, in gondolas at the “freschi,” during Carnival in the 1700s. An opportunity to immerse yourself in the true spirit of this unique city embellished with recited fragments of Commedia Dell'Arte.
The July 27 the festival will move to the’Prince's Garden Summer Arena (9:30 p.m.) and the journey will continue with the sounds from the border cities of the Mediterranean told by the show “Soundcity” of Stefano Saletti & Ikona Band. They will be guests of the production Nando Citarella (voice, tammorra), Alessandro D'Alessandro (accordion), Gabriella Aiello (voice), Yasemin Sannino (voice) and Pejman Tadayon (ney, daf). Musician Stefano Saletti has traveled with his music from Lampedusa to Istanbul, from Tangier to Lisbon to Jaffa, Sarajevo and Ventotene, and in these places he has recorded sounds, noises, radios, voices, sound spaces. From all this material he composed a sound fresco that tells the difficult dialogue between the north and south shores, the dramas of migrants, the wealth, the hopes, and the pain that cross the roads of the Mediterranean. In this tale in music he has used sabir, the language of the sea, of the ports, fishermen and sailors of the Mediterranean, the language of possible dialogue, combining Italian, French, Spanish and Arabic in a single stream of sound. The result is a fascinating world-Mediterranean, mestizo folk, a rich blend of rhythms and melodies, suggestions and colors.
The festival will close with the production “Infinite lot” of Enzo Avitabile and the Bottari. The album and the show are a sound fresco, heartfelt and suffered, on the suburbs, those located north of Naples as well as those around the world, but also on the promised lands of which Lampedusa is the symbol for migrants. Marianella artist, David Donatello award for best soundtrack and best song of the film “Indivisibili» by De Angelis, with his musical project offers a choral tale about everyday life, the world around us, the suffering existences of the last, be they immigrants, the dispossessed, the marginalized, ranging between strong social themes such as unemployment, immigration and the degradation not only of the suburbs, but also moral and spiritual. To counterbalance these themes, in each piece emerges now the author's empathy and understanding, now a positive vibe that becomes a seed of hope for a better future.
The festival program will be enriched, again this year, by the afternoon initiative (hrs. 18.00 - Nassiriya Fallen Gardens) the “Prize Meet...”.
The July 26, meeting will be held with Factory Europe, an international festival of the contemporary scene held in Florence. Leading the meeting will be music journalist Jacopo Tomatis.
Maurizio Busia, music director of the Fabbrica Europa festival, along with musicians Ziad Trabelsi, Fabrizio Cardosa e Simone Pulivano will present the project “Liu'ud.
“Liu'ud” is the meeting of two cousin instruments: the ud-one of the most fascinating instruments of Arabic music-played by the singer and musician of the Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio, Ziad Trabelsi - and the lute - a symbol of Renaissance culture played by musician Fabrizio Cardosa. At a time when encounters between peoples color everyday actions, when we negotiate for dialogue in diversity, building bridges and often remain unprepared for this supposed novelty, we forget that all this existed long ago. There is a channel that has always connected peoples: music. This is the idea, the warning, the mood of “Liu'ud.” Through notes, the encounter of instrumental entities that overcome their ethno-musical origin and recognize themselves, in comparison with others, in their sonority and possibilities to create and reinvent themselves is told.
The July 27 guests of the Meet Award will be The Mancuso Brothers. Lorenzo and Enzo Mancuso were awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award with the following motivation: The Sicilian tradition, understood as an open treasure chest blended with the Mancuso Brothers' personal, biographical travels and experiences, has made them a unique musical and cultural element in safeguarding and making popular music ever more alive in Italy. In their long history, in the midst of awards and important collaborations, participation in concerts, soundtracks, and highly relevant dissemination and teaching projects, the sense of belonging always stands out, not only insular, but above all human, to a history that makes travel an essential element and roots the necessary component to move forward
In the meeting led by music journalist Enrico de Angelis the two musicians will retrace the most significant stages of their artistic careers.
The July 28, the Meet the Prize the historian, researcher, music critic Alexander Portelli, the publisher Valter Colle (Note) and the musician Serhat Akbal to introduce the series “Crossroads: crossroads.
The series directed and edited by Alessandro Portelli investigates the sounds of new migrations, documented by “on-the-ground” recordings and witnessing an extraordinary interweaving of diversity and new contaminations.
A collection of sound documents testifying to the presence in Italy of historical and, more or less, recent migrant cultures. A song from many years ago, “Roma forestiera,” lamented that there was no longer music in the streets and neighborhoods of Italian cities. Now it is precisely the “outsiders” who are bringing music back to the streets. The popular music of the new multicultural Italy is also Somali, Nigerian, Bengali, Kurdish, Senegalese, Romanian, Indian, Filipino... and it is music of pride, memory, resistance, as popular music in Italy has always been.
PROGRAM
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
- 6 p.m. - Nassiriya Gardens, waterfront
AWARD MEETS... FACTORY EUROPE
Presentation of the “Liu'ud” project”
Meeting with Maurizio Busia (Factory Europe)
Showcase with Ziad Trabelsi (l'ud), Fabrizio Cardosa (bass lute, viola da gamba), Simone Pulivano ( percussion)
Hosted by Jacopo Tomatis
- 9:30 p.m. - Cloister of St. Augustine
RACHELE COLOMBO
“Singing Venice. Boat Songs.”
with Rachele Colombo (vocals, classical guitar, tambourine, Marco Rosa Salva (recorders), Domenico Santaniello (cello, drum), puta venexiana Chiarastella Seravalle (voice acting)
Presentation of the 2016 Best Album Award to Rachele Colombo
Thursday, July 27, 2017
- 6 p.m. - Nassiriya Gardens, waterfront
THE AWARD MEETS... THE MANCUSO BROTHERS
Meeting with Enzo and Lorenzo Mancuso
Conducted by Enrico de Angelis
- 9:30 p.m. - Summer Arena Prince's Garden
STEFANO SALETTI & IKONA BAND
“Soundcity” Sounds from the border towns of the Mediterranean
Guests: Nando Citarella, Alessandro D'Alessandro, Gabriella Aiello, Yasemin Sannino, Pejman Tadayon
Presentation of the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award to the Mancuso Brothers
Friday, July 28, 2017
- 6 p.m. - Nassiriya Gardens, waterfront
THE AWARD MEETS... ALESSANDRO PORTELLI, VALTER COLLE AND SERHAT AKBAL
Presentation of the series “Crossroads: crossroads.” Edited by Alessandro Portelli (Note editor)
With Alessandro Portelli (historian, researcher, music critic), Valter Colle (Nota editor)
Showcase with Serhat Akbal (musician)
Conducted by Ciro De Rosa
- 9:30 p.m. - Summer Arena Prince's Garden
ENZO AVITABILE & THE BOTTARI
“Infinite Lot” Crossing languages, sounds, diversity and new contaminations
Presentation of the 2017 Cultural Reality Award to Blogfoolk{:}
