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PRESS RELEASE (07/21/2013)
Monday, July 22, at Loano, will kick off 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.
“Loano will once again become the capital of Italian popular music. - Loano Mayor say. Luigi Pignocca and the Councillor for Tourism and Culture. Remo Zaccaria - For five days, the heart of the city will be transformed into a large stage: you can meet the winners of the ninth edition of the Prize, attend the presentation of new recording projects with artists and labels and attend many concerts. The festival is an opportunity to introduce today's popular music, but also to promote our territory through a unique event.”
The new edition of the festival reintroduces the formula of the double musical date: an aperitif at the 18.30, to present musical projects and the waterfront concert in the evening, at 21.30, with the groups most recommended by the prize jury.
New this year is a new location for the afternoon meetings: the Nassiriya Gardens on the waterfront. Palestro Square, on the other hand, will accommodate the free stage of sardinian dances scheduled July 23-25 from 4 to 6 p.m.
“The 2013 edition of the National City of Loano award for traditional music," explains artistic director John Vignola - is dedicated to the resilient communities in the territory, those that still manage to safeguard their identity, their tradition, despite the attacks of metropolitan life. Identities that are almost always mixed together, open to the contemporary, as long as one does not want to lead them back at all costs to a uniforming and demeaning flattening. A theme that has very wide implications and that we are going to tell as we travel through Italy from North to South, including the islands.”
At 6:30 pm, in the Nassiriya Gardens, to inaugurate the afternoon meeting space with labels, artists, journalists and cultural workers will be Alberkant, the Cantovivo Association and the journalist Cyrus De Rosa. The musical aperitif will be dedicated to Alberto Cesa, one of the most valuable representatives of Italian folk music, who passed away in 2010. Cesa, with his hurdy-gurdy and his musical language in a blend of tradition and new folk songs, together with Donata Pinti with whom he founded the group Cantovivo, participated as an absolute protagonist in that real “folk renaissance” that swept through the artistic and musical world of the late 1970s, paving the way for many of the new musical realities that increasingly came to the fore at that time. The City of Loano Prize will commemorate the work of Alberto Cesa, presenting the volumes published by Nota and his repertoire, performed by some of the musicians most closely associated with the artist, brought together in the new group Alberkant.
In the evening on the waterfront, at 9:30 pm, guests of the festival will be the Uribà & Dopu Cena which together with the’Bailam Orchestra and the Trallalero Singing Company will tell about the Ideal bridge between Genoa, the western riviera and Corsica and between the Ligurian capital and the old Genoese quarter of Constantinople.
In the first part of the evening the After Dinner and the Uriba will present the “Water chì corri com'è a vita” project”, songs traditional Corsican and Ligurian. The meeting of these two young musical realities has resulted in an ambitious project that aims to enhance the exchanges and similarities of the Western Ligurian dialect and the Corsican spoken in the West.
Situated opposite Liguria, fatefully destined to meet the routes of Genoese merchants and privateers, Corsica owes part of its environmental and cultural physiognomy to the close network of relations it enjoyed with Genoa for about a millennium. The Corsican language faithfully reflects this complex historical reality, and the Genoese bastion of Bonifacio in the extreme south of the island has preserved its idiomatic and cultural heritage to this day. In the wake of this meeting point, the two bands offer a mixed repertoire of melodies, dances and songs (serenades, holiday songs, wedding songs, sacred songs) that transport the listener from the mountains from the Corse Vallerustie, Rinoca, Cinarca, and Pieve di Tavaru regions to the Intemelie, Arroscia, Lerrone, and Pennavaire valleys of western Liguria. The Uribes Are: Alexander Gratian (vocals, guitar and violin), Federico Fugassa (bass and double bass), David Bonfante (battery), Davide Baglietto (bagpipes, flutes and percussion).
I Dopu Cena Are: Ghjuvan Micheli Weber (singing, ciaramedda, violin, flutes), Micheli Solinas (singing, guitar, violin, traditional flutes, mandolin), Arnaud Giacomoni (singing guitar bass), Dumenicu Casalonga (vocals and guitar), Stefanu Murucciu (singing).
L’ Bailam Orchestra and the Trallalero Singing Company will be featured in the second part of the concert with “Galata, musical project that embraces the Middle East and the Trallalero tradition, an ideal bridge linking today's city with the old Genoese quarter of Constantinople, on the Golden Horn, when the Superb weaved relationships and exchanges throughout the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. It is an imaginary journey to taverns, smokehouses, and aman cafes, meeting places between makam (Middle Eastern modal scales) and the melodies of the magic circle of Trallalero. The rhythms and music are affected by the dense perfume of Rebetiko, and the Genoese-language lyrics give voice to a Genoa far from Genoa, a distance from its roots. The Bailam Orchestra, following her own Middle Eastern vision, she arrived at the roots of the Genoese folk tradition along with the Trallalero Singing Company, inventing a musical repertoire that creates a new territory of poetry.
About the Singing Company Trallalero are part of selected elements of various traditional teams such as ‘La Squadra’ (formerly Centro Storico), the “Canterini Val Bisagno.” They will participate in the concert: Matteo Merli tenor & vocal guitar (or primmo e a chitara), Paul Sobrero contralto (or contræto), Gael Princivalle Baritone, Bass (or counter-bass, bass).
The Bailam is composed of Franco Minelli (guitars, bouzouky, baglamas, oud, vocals), Edmund Romano (soprano sax, clarinet, flutes, bagpipes), Luciano Ventriglia (drums, derbouka, percussion, vocals), Luca Montagliani (accordion), Roberto Piga (violin), Thomas Rolando (double bass, bass).
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