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RACALE: BAD WEATHER STAGE FESTIVAL CANCELED

Due to adverse weather conditions, the planned August 13 stop in Racale is canceled and postponed to a date to be determined.

We thank the public and artists for their cooperation.

SAMUELE BERSANI GUEST CONCERTONE 25

Samuele Bersani will be a guest at the Notte della Taranta Concert scheduled for Aug. 27 in Melpignano (Le). The singer-songwriter of the masterpiece Giudizi Universali will enchant the Taranta audience by interpreting the symbolic song of the tradition: Lu ruciu de lu mare the poetic description of the Salento landscape between "padule" inhabited by "ranocchiule" and the buzz of the sea.
In his 30-year career, Bersani has written extraordinary songs that have moved audiences such as Replay, En and Xanax, Chicco and Spillo, Freak, a long journey of sound research that is constantly evolving and outside of any standardization scheme.
Master concertmaster Dardust in the long night of Melpignano will highlight Bersani's two artistic souls, that of continuous experimentation and the very recognizable one of lyrics poised between surreal imagery and poetry.
This is an unmissable opportunity to listen live to the plucked version of Chicco and Spillo by the 50-year-old singer-songwriter from Rimini, who at the age of 21 signed one of the masterpieces of writing in Italian discography, "Il Mostro," whose enchanting lyrics immediately won over Dalla, who decided to produce it. And Bersani arrives at the Notte della Taranta 16 years after the participation of his great friend Lucio Dalla, to whom he dedicated, 10 years after his death, a touching post on Instagram: "In the moments of greatest bewilderment your words always knew how to build immediate horizons and ports of comfort in which to land."
In 2021 with his latest album Cinema Bersani, the artist won his fifth Targa Tenco, after the one for "L'oroscopo speciale" awarded in 2000 also as Best Album, the double in 2004 for both Best Song with "Cattiva," and for Best Album with "Caramella Smog," and in 2015 for "La storie che non conosci," written and sung together with Gino Pacifico, judged Best Song of the Year.
But Samuele Bersani's artistic career is studded with awards, including two Mia Martini Critics' Awards ("Replay" and "Un pallone"), a Lunezia Award for Best Literary Lyrics for "Giudizi Universali," and the Amnesty Italy Award for the song "Occhiali Rotti" dedicated to reporter Enzo Baldoni.
A super cast for Concertone 2022 celebrating its first 25 years. After the announcement of international guest STROMAE, Italian singer-songwriter SAMUELE BERSANI is added and two more super guests from the Italian pop scene are expected.
In the rehearsal room set up in the Cinema Elio in Calimera, the Popular Orchestra continues its musical quest to enchant the audience of Melpignano, moving from traditional pizziches to the audience's most beloved ballads with an in-depth look at Pier Paolo Pasolini's Canzoniere Italiano and a tribute to Vito Nigro the cantor of Villa Castelli and Cordella's pizzica. The texts chosen by Dardust for the 25th edition will also be a dancing journey entrusted to choreographer Irma Di Paola.
Concertone La Notte della Taranta is a cultural project of musical and choreographic research produced by Fondazione La Notte della Taranta with the support of Regione Puglia, Puglia Promozione, Unione dei Comuni della Grecìa salentina, and Istituto Diego Carpitella.
Thanks to a collaboration with Acquedotto Pugliese, the Concertone area will be served by public water distribution. Festival mobility is zero-emission thanks to the technical support of DMJ Gruppo De Mariani, which provided the electric cars.

How to get to the Concertone:

By train: Ferrovie Sud Est has activated a special train service to reach Melpignano and comfortably find return runs until dawn: Notte della Taranta 2022 (fseonline.it)

By bus: BusFor Fun from major Italian cities https://busforfun.com/articolo/la-notte-della-taranta

With your own vehicle, it will be possible to reserve parking in Melpignano https://lanottedellataranta.parkforfun.com/


#taranta25 #WeAreinPuglia


Main Sponsor: DMJ Gruppo De Mariani
Sponsor: Acqua Orsini
Official Carrier: Ferrovie Sud Est
Travel Partners: BusForFun and ParkForFun
Taranta solidarity: Parco degli Ulivi della Taranta in collaboration with Ass. Olivami

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14 AGUST LECCE - PIAZZA LIBERTINI

19:00

Pizzica Workshop

21:00

ENZO PETRACHI & FOLK BAND22

To follow

ANTONIO AMATO ENSEMBLE

hosts FIORENZA CALOGERO and MARCELLO VITALE

 

On Aug. 14, the traveling festival "La Notte della Taranta," makes a stop in Lecce. Now in its 25th edition dedicated to the theme "The Tradition of the New," Italy's largest traveling festival crosses 21 towns in Salento from Aug. 4 to 25, with 43 pizzica concerts, more than 400 artists and will lead to the long night of the Concertone on Aug. 27 in Melpignano (Le), with the maestro concertmaster DARDUST, in the midst of rehearsal activity these days at the Cinema of Calimera together with the Orchestra of the Notte della Taranta.

The sound journey between memory and vision of Concertone 2022 will be broadcast on RAI 1, Thursday, Sept. 1 at 11:15 p.m.

Curated by the Corpo di Ballo della Notte della Taranta at 7 p.m., the pizzica workshops return, unmissable appointments for fans of the Salento dance who gather in the squares of the Festival's host towns to participate in the great dancing patrol. Large inclusive and open circles are formed led by the Taranta dancers who accompany the audience to discover the rhythm of the tambourine and the different expressions of the pizzica: courtship pizzica, pizzica tarantata and pizzica fencing.

Lighting up the evening in Libertini Square in Lecce at 9 p.m. is Enzo Petrachi & Folk Band22. His career was born following in the footsteps of his father, Bruno, giving as he did, different and new flavors of the Salento tradition. Always close to the heart of the people who have long believed in him for his desire to turn the history of our country into musical notes with his unique style: a tale in music of the life and traditions of his land. To date he has produced 28 record works, Enzo is the author of many of his songs, as in the album "folk salentino." Many hit songs also used in soundtracks of famous movies including "fine pena mai," are sung all over the world. With his FOLK Band22 he is back on tour with Technical Rider. Enzo Petrachi will take the stage at the La Notte della Taranta Festival with: Mariachiara Ferrari, backing vocals; Gabriele Mazzotta, drums; Giuseppe Schirinzi, bass; Michele Russo, guitar; Salvatore Costantini, physa and keyboards; and Beniamino Capoccia, percussion.

A performance by Antonio Amato Ensemble will follow. The group was founded in 2000, and the original plan was for popular music to be juxtaposed with classical music in order to create a refined yet authentic blend. Over the years the project has been enriched with other points of view, expanding beyond the usual boundaries by thinking without "labels." Music as "communication," as a flow of sound thoughts, as trepidation with the introduction of odd rhythms, exotic echoes, contaminations, refined sound, unusual arrangements. Antonio Amato is an eclectic artist, frontman of the group that for the Festival Notte della Taranta 2022 welcomes two guests to the stage performing together with Fiorenza Calogero accompanied by one of the greatest exponents of the chitarra battente, Marcello Vitale. The versatility of her voice, sanguine approach to writing and stage expressiveness make Fiorenza Calogero one of the most profound interpreters of traditional Italian song. A vertical depth that pierces the native land - Naples and Campania - and sprouts in the opposite hemispheres, in the forests, among the spirits and peoples who inhabit them. The group consists of: Antonio Amato, vocals, guitar and tambourine; Antonio Marra, drums; Valerio Rizzello, keyboards and oboe; Nico Berardi, bagpipes, charango, woodwinds and guitar; Gianluigi Amato, vocals and tambourine; Roberto Gemma, synth and accordion; Giacomo Casciaro, mandola and mandoloncello; Mario Esposito, bass; Antonella Maggio, tambourine.

And at the Lecce stage of La Notte della Taranta there will also be the Libringiro. initiative, the traveling project for the enhancement of Apulian bibliodiversity carried out by APE-Associazione Pugliese Editori with the support of the Apulian Region, Institute of Mediterranean Cultures, Polo Biblio - Museale di Lecce, Teatro Pubblico Pugliese, Province of Lecce. It is fulfilled thanks to the ApeBiblioCamper, the vehicle branded with the project logo and equipped to become a mobile bookstore: it stops at places where major events are held, regional but also supra-regional, on the occasion of which the bookstore can also be set up with a selection of thematic volumes inherent to the content of the event (e.g., music, cinema, folklore, etc.) as well as of general interest, further enhancing the event itself to which it is flanked. It is thus also meant to be a literary offering for tourists and visitors.

 

LibrInGiro's ApeBiblioCamper continues to move these days in Salento, participating in some stages of the La Notte della Taranta Festival. Next events will be Aug. 14 in LECCE (Piazza Libertini), Thursday, Aug. 18 in GALATINA (Piazza Dante Alighieri) and Sunday, Aug. 21 in CALIMERA (market area).

For the audience of La Taranta, it can be an opportunity to learn more about the themes of Italy's largest festival and one of the most significant events on popular culture in Europe, through the selection of thematic volumes made available by APE's twenty-eight publishing houses. These are books on the history and popular and musical tradition of Apulia but, more generally, publishing productions unquestionably linked to the territory that precisely with LibrInGiro APE members want to showcase. With LibrInGiro Ape wants to show a new dynamism, aimed at the valorization of the intangible cultural heritage constituted, precisely, by Apulian publishing, understood both in terms of editorial "workers" and talented authors, already known or misunderstood, highlighting the exquisitely regional historical, anthropological and artistic specificities of the sector.

 

The ApeBiblioCamper will be stationed near the concert area.

The mobile bookstore will allow consultation, lending and purchase of volumes.

 

 

Next stops:   

AUGUST 16 UGENTO - PIAZZA SAN VINCENZO

21:00 Pietrevive of Salento

To follow Seven Mouths

Mascarimirì

 

AUGUST 17 ZOLLINO - VILLA COMUNALE

21:00 A SUD DI BELLA CIAO with Riccardo Tesi, Elena Ledda, Lucilla Galeazzi, Gabriella Aiello, Alessio Lega, Nando Citarella, Maurizio Geri, Marzio Del Testa, Claudio Carboni

To follow Criamu

AUG. 18 GALATINA - PIAZZA DANTE ALIGHERI

21:00 Pino Ingrosso

To follow Orchestra Popolare La Notte Della Taranta

 

AUGUST 18 GALATINA PIAZZA DANTE ALIGHERI

21:00 Pino Ingrosso

To follow Orchestra Popolare La Notte Della Taranta

 

AUGUST 19 CASTRIGNANO DE' GRECI - PALAZZO DE GUALTIERIS

21:00 I Calanti

To follow Alla Bua

 

AUGUST 20 CUTROFIANO - PIAZZA MUNICIPIO

21:00 Parafonè

To follow Li Strittuli - Compagnia di Musica Popolare Salentina

 

AUGUST 21 CALIMERA - AREA MERCATALE

21:00 I Trillanti

To follow Kalascima

 

AUGUST 22 MARTIGNANO - PIAZZA DELLA REPUBBLICA

21:00 Briganti Di Terra D'otranto

To follow Orchestra Popolare La Notte Della Taranta

 

AUGUST 23 SOLETO - PIAZZA OSANNA

21:00 Corpo Di Ballo La Notte Della Taranta - Pizzica In Scena

21:30 Rocco Nigro "Come fece come non fece" with Antonio Castrignanò, Giorgio Distante, Redi Hasa, Egidio Marullo, Fabrizio Saccomanno, Giuseppe Spedicato

To follow Enza Pagliara - Fasinfasò with Antongiulio Galeandro, Dario Muci, Gianluca Longo, Claudia De Ventura, Sofia Giordani Pagliara, Viola Centi.

 

AUGUST 24 STERNATIA - PIAZZA UMBERTO I

19:00 Laboratorio Di Pizzica

21:00 Unzapzap Bif Band

To follow Cgs - Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino.

 

AUGUST 25 MARTANO - LARGO PRIMO MAGGIO

21:00 Taranters

To follow Nui...Nisciunu

Armonia Greca

Stella Grande

 

Concertone: August 27 in Melpignano: FREE ENTRANCE

The Itinerant Festival is a project of the Notte della Taranta Foundation supported by the Puglia Region, Pugliapromozione, Grecìa salentina and the Diego Carpitella Institute.

 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1etZhAHKKoQpHfZdzZe9nf4rz6ixtaC6X?usp=sharing here you will find more photos from previous Itinerant Festivals

Main Sponsor: DMJ Mercedes of Maurizio De Mariani

 

Partners: ACQUA ORSINI, GIORGIO CORVAGLIA, OFFICINA PAAR,

Social Partners: FRATRES, INTEGRATION.

Official Concert Carrier: SOUTH EAST RAILWAYS

Technical partners: BUSFORFUN, CARRA, FASSI.

 

 

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13 AUGUST RACALE - PIAZZA SAN SEBASTIANO

21:00

MIMMO EPIFANI 

To follow

KALURYA

On Aug. 13, the traveling festival "La Notte della Taranta," makes a stop in Racale. Now in its 25th edition dedicated to the theme "The tradition of the new," Italy's largest traveling festival crosses 21 towns in Salento from Aug. 4 to 25, with 43 pizzica concerts, more than 400 artists and will lead up to the long night of the Concertone on Aug. 27 in Melpignano (Le), with the maestro concertatore DARDUST, in the midst of rehearsal activity these days at the Cinema di Calimera together with the Orchestra della Notte della Taranta.
The sound journey between memory and vision of Concertone 2022 will be broadcast on RAI 1, Thursday, Sept. 1 at 11:15 p.m.


The evening kicks off at 9 p.m. with a concert by Mimmo Epifani & Barbers, which was born as a reminiscent voice of tradition, a timeless soul that preserves its historical memories among the thousands of multicultural amnesias of our times. Music, songs, dances, having as their focus the plucked instruments of the "barbers" musically revisited in an ethnic key. The group's vision is that in a historical and social paradigm characterized by a profound crisis of values, massification and the baroque emphasis of culture increasingly devoid of identity, the idea of a concert is born that can, through the special and subliminal language of the "Arts," awaken consciences and collective memories from the hedonistic slumber and 'exasperating individualism of our society. The result of the concert a feast that involves, drags, moves in a real explosion of sounds, voices and rhythms. Components: Mimmo Epifani, vocals, mandolin, mandola; Sasà Flauto, vocals, guitars; Giuseppino Grassi, vocals, plectrum instruments; Francesco Santalucia, vocals, piano, percussion; Marilena Gragnaniello, reciting voice, frame drums, dance.

This will be followed by the music of the group KalurYa, which offers a repertoire consisting mainly of pizziche and tarantelle, the result of extravagant and exciting ethnomusicological investigations and refined contaminations with other popular and non-popular musical traditions. Their shows of the are an explosion of energy, passion, rhythm and magic, dragging on a journey from the past to the present on the incessant beat of Stefano De Monte's tambourine, the beating heart of the Salento tradition, on the interweaving and cascading notes of Gianni Faggiano's accordion. Mimmo Quarta's percussion rhythm, Gianluca Martina's bass groove, Luciano Micolani's lead guitar and Alessia Pellè's choreography complete the lineup.

FREE ADMISSION

Next stops: 

 

AUGUST 14 LECCE - PIAZZA LIBERTINI

19:00 Pizzica Workshop

21:00 Enzo Petrachi & Folk Band22

To follow Antonio Amato Ensemble hosts Fiorenza Calogero and Marcello Vitale

 

AUGUST 16 UGENTO - PIAZZA SAN VINCENZO

21:00 Pietrevive of Salento

To follow Seven Mouths

Mascarimirì

 

AUGUST 17 ZOLLINO - VILLA COMUNALE

21:00 A SUD DI BELLA CIAO with Riccardo Tesi, Elena Ledda, Lucilla Galeazzi, Gabriella Aiello, Alessio Lega, Nando Citarella, Maurizio Geri, Marzio Del Testa, Claudio Carboni

To follow Criamu

AUG. 18 GALATINA - PIAZZA DANTE ALIGHERI

21:00 Pino Ingrosso

To follow Orchestra Popolare La Notte Della Taranta

 

AUGUST 18 GALATINA PIAZZA DANTE ALIGHERI

21:00 Pino Ingrosso

To follow Orchestra Popolare La Notte Della Taranta

 

AUGUST 19 CASTRIGNANO DE' GRECI - PALAZZO DE GUALTIERIS

21:00 I Calanti

To follow Alla Bua

 

AUGUST 20 CUTROFIANO - PIAZZA MUNICIPIO

21:00 Parafonè

To follow Li Strittuli - Compagnia di Musica Popolare Salentina

 

AUGUST 21 CALIMERA - AREA MERCATALE

21:00 I Trillanti

To follow Kalascima

 

AUGUST 22 MARTIGNANO - PIAZZA DELLA REPUBBLICA

21:00 Briganti Di Terra D'otranto

To follow Orchestra Popolare La Notte Della Taranta

 

AUGUST 23 SOLETO - PIAZZA OSANNA

21:00 Corpo Di Ballo La Notte Della Taranta - Pizzica In Scena

21:30 Rocco Nigro "Come fece come non fece" with Antonio Castrignanò, Giorgio Distante, Redi Hasa, Egidio Marullo, Fabrizio Saccomanno, Giuseppe Spedicato

To follow Enza Pagliara - Fasinfasò with Antongiulio Galeandro, Dario Muci, Gianluca Longo, Claudia De Ventura, Sofia Giordani Pagliara, Viola Centi.

 

AUGUST 24 STERNATIA - PIAZZA UMBERTO I

19:00 Laboratorio Di Pizzica

21:00 Unzapzap Bif Band

To follow Cgs - Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino.

 

AUGUST 25 MARTANO - LARGO PRIMO MAGGIO

21:00 Taranters

To follow Nui...Nisciunu

Armonia Greca

Stella Grande

 

Concertone: August 27 in Melpignano: FREE ENTRANCE

The Itinerant Festival is a project of the Notte della Taranta Foundation supported by the Puglia Region, Pugliapromozione, Grecìa salentina and the Diego Carpitella Institute.

 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1etZhAHKKoQpHfZdzZe9nf4rz6ixtaC6X?usp=sharing here you will find more photos from previous Itinerant Festivals

Main Sponsor: DMJ Mercedes of Maurizio De Mariani

 

Partners: ACQUA ORSINI, GIORGIO CORVAGLIA, OFFICINA PAAR,

Social Partners: FRATRES, INTEGRATION.

Official Concert Carrier: SOUTH EAST RAILWAYS

Technical partners: BUSFORFUN, CARRA, FASSI.

 

 

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#taranta25 #WeAreinPuglia

www.lanottedellataranta.it

Facebook La Notte della Taranta

Instagram @LaNottedellaTaranta_official

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Cecilia Leo - cecilialeo79@gmail.com

Paola Trotta - paolatrotta@yahoo.it

DANCE REHEARSALS IN CASTRI' DI LECCE. HERE ARE THE 6 PROFESSIONALS JOINING THE DANCE TROUPE

Dance rehearsals for the Notte della Taranta dance troupe have begun in Castrì di Lecce. Taranto-based choreographer Irma Di Paola has been working with the dancers since August 7 to create 10 paintings on the pieces proposed by maestro Dardust that will be performed on August 27 at the concertone on the stage set up in front of the former Convento degli Agostiniani.

The Apulian choreographer, excited and honored by this assignment that strengthens even more the bond with her roots, promised, "past and present, tradition and innovation will come together to ignite the Wonder."

Dance rehearsals began a few days ago in Castrì di Lecce, in the Chassè Dance Center, with the 10 dancers of the Corps de Ballet of the Notte della Taranta, veterans of the extraordinary success recorded at the International Folk Dance Festival and the Mediterranean Games in Algeria: Mihaela Coluccia, Cristina Frassanito, Serena Pellegrino, Lucia Scarabino, Veronica Mele, Stefano Campagna, Andrea Caracuta, Marco Martano, Fabrizio Nigro and Mattia Politi. The Corps de Ballet has been spreading the "pizzica" for years on the stages of national and international tours with engaging choreography on the songs performed by the Popular Orchestra. Thanks to the Workshops, the dancers promote popular dance by spreading the "steps" to everyone who participates before concerts in pizzica stages.

In the rehearsal room and on the Concertone stage, the dancers will dance with six professionals: Serena Pomer, Vittoria Markov, Gabriele Riccio, Alessandro Covarelli, Gabriele Virgilio and Francesco Cariello, assistant to the choreographer.

Serena Pomer this year was chosen as the Backup Dancer for the Flag Handover ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics; Vittoria Markov was a dancer for the UAE Jubilee in the main stage of Expo 2020 in Dubai and the acrobat during the opening night Eurovision 2022; Gabriele Riccio, has studied with leading international choreographers Nick demura, Jun Quemado, Ian Eastwood and is the Founder of Rules Dance Studio school; Alessandro Covarelli, was recently a dancer in the official corps de ballet of Eurovision Song Contest 2022; and Gabriele Virgilio began his career working in Macau in China for Franco Dragone with choreography by Veronica Peparini and from there to follow as a professional for the corps de ballet of Amici, Sanremo, Italian's got Talent, The Voice, Big Brother.

The choreographer's assistant is Francesco Cariello from Salerno. Here he began his studies related to Latin American dances as a teenager, placing them side by side with those related to academic and Urban dances. He continued his studies in Rome, at the Ballet of Rome, perfecting himself in contemporary dance. He begins his artistic collaborations with several contemporary companies, he also interfaces as a dancer in numerous television programs. He collaborates for several artists on the music scene, including Renato Zero, Emma Marrone, Andrea Bocelli, Anna Tatangelo.

 

16 dancers led by Irma di Paola who will excite with ten paintings the audience that will arrive in Melpignano to attend the final Concertone directed by Dardust scheduled on August 27 and broadcast on Rai 1, September 1 at 11:15 pm.

12 AUGUST ALESSANO - PIAZZA DON TONINO BELLO

21:00

UCCIO ALOISI GRUPPU 

To follow

ARIACORTE  MUSICA POPOLARE

On Aug. 12, the traveling festival "La Notte della Taranta," makes a stop in Alessano. Now in its 25th edition dedicated to the theme "The Tradition of the New," Italy's largest traveling festival crosses 21 towns in Salento from Aug. 4 to 25, with 43 pizzica concerts, more than 400 artists and will lead to the long night of the Concertone on Aug. 27 in Melpignano (Le), with the maestro concertmaster DARDUST, and will be broadcast on RAI 1, Thursday, Sept. 1 at 11:15 p.m.
Rehearsals are in full swing for the sound journey between memory and vision of the Concertone at the Cinema of Calimera with Dardust and the Notte della Taranta Orchestra.


The evening kicks off at 9 p.m. in Piazza Don Tonino Bello with the notes of the historic Salento folk music group Aria Corte, led by its founder Rocco Borlizzi, which returns to the stages by re-proposing "Damme La Manu" one of the most important "alla stisa" songs of the Salento folk repertoire. A classic of the band that today is revisited thanks to artistic collaborations with Vincenza de Rinaldis, Anna Maggio and Gianluca Milanese, who joyfully took part in the realization. A decades-long career of the group marked by the continuous search for an encounter with other experiences of music making: from classical - as in this case - to international ethnic music. Aria Corte will appear on stage at the La Notte della Taranta Festival with: Rocco Borlizzi Band Manger, voice and tambourine; Giacomo Casciaro: guitar, voice, winds, mandola; Sergio Pizza, drums; Angelo Surdo Accordion; Alberto Pezzuto, voice and violin; Gianluca Milanese, transverse flute; Anna Maggio, harp; Vincenza de Rinaldis (guest) voice.

The music continues with Uccio Aloisi Gruppu. Antonio Aloisi, better known as Uccio Aloisi (Cutrofiano, Oct. 1, 1928 - Cutrofiano, Oct. 21, 2010), born into a peasant family, together with Uccio Bandello and Uccio Melissano, founded the legendary group "Li Ucci," custodians of the folk tradition of "stornelli," songs of work and love often improvised to the rhythm of the tamburello. The rediscovery for popular music linked to the Taranta phenomenon led the group to perform outside regional borders in Italy and abroad. Uccio Aloisi was a singer of popular music, among the most charismatic, well-known and appreciated figures in the Salento musical tradition of pizzica; Aloisi was one of the regular guests of the Notte della Taranta and has trod the most important stages of popular music, collaborating with internationally renowned artists and Italian artists, including Buena Vista Social. Aloisi started his own group, the "Uccio Aloisi Gruppu," which continues the path of popular music with Antonio Calsolaro, Domenico Riso, Luigi Nuzzo, Pasquale Pizzolante, and Max Però.

FREE ADMISSION

Next stops: 

AUGUST 13 RACALE - PIAZZA SAN SEBASTIANO

21:00Mimmo Epifani. To follow Kalurya

 

AUGUST 14 LECCE - PIAZZA LIBERTINI

19:00 Pizzica Workshop

21:00 Enzo Petrachi & Folk Band22

To follow Antonio Amato Ensemble hosts Fiorenza Calogero and Marcello Vitale

 

AUGUST 16 UGENTO - PIAZZA SAN VINCENZO

21:00 Pietrevive of Salento

To follow Seven Mouths

Mascarimirì

 

AUGUST 17 ZOLLINO - VILLA COMUNALE

21:00 A SUD DI BELLA CIAO with Riccardo Tesi, Elena Ledda, Lucilla Galeazzi, Gabriella Aiello, Alessio Lega, Nando Citarella, Maurizio Geri, Marzio Del Testa, Claudio Carboni

To follow Criamu

AUG. 18 GALATINA - PIAZZA DANTE ALIGHERI

21:00 Pino Ingrosso

To follow Orchestra Popolare La Notte Della Taranta

 

AUGUST 18 GALATINA PIAZZA DANTE ALIGHERI

21:00 Pino Ingrosso

To follow Orchestra Popolare La Notte Della Taranta

 

AUGUST 19 CASTRIGNANO DE' GRECI - PALAZZO DE GUALTIERIS

21:00 I Calanti

To follow Alla Bua

 

AUGUST 20 CUTROFIANO - PIAZZA MUNICIPIO

21:00 Parafonè

To follow Li Strittuli - Compagnia di Musica Popolare Salentina

 

AUGUST 21 CALIMERA - AREA MERCATALE

21:00 I Trillanti

To follow Kalascima

 

AUGUST 22 MARTIGNANO - PIAZZA DELLA REPUBBLICA

21:00 Briganti Di Terra D'otranto

To follow Orchestra Popolare La Notte Della Taranta

 

AUGUST 23 SOLETO - PIAZZA OSANNA

21:00 Corpo Di Ballo La Notte Della Taranta - Pizzica In Scena

21:30 Rocco Nigro "Come fece come non fece" with Antonio Castrignanò, Giorgio Distante, Redi Hasa, Egidio Marullo, Fabrizio Saccomanno, Giuseppe Spedicato

To follow Enza Pagliara - Fasinfasò with Antongiulio Galeandro, Dario Muci, Gianluca Longo, Claudia De Ventura, Sofia Giordani Pagliara, Viola Centi.

 

AUGUST 24 STERNATIA - PIAZZA UMBERTO I

19:00 Laboratorio Di Pizzica

21:00 Unzapzap Bif Band

To follow Cgs - Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino.

 

AUGUST 25 MARTANO - LARGO PRIMO MAGGIO

21:00 Taranters

To follow Nui...Nisciunu

Armonia Greca

Stella Grande

 

Concertone: August 27 in Melpignano: FREE ENTRANCE

The Itinerant Festival is a project of the Notte della Taranta Foundation supported by the Puglia Region, Pugliapromozione, Grecìa salentina and the Diego Carpitella Institute.

 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1etZhAHKKoQpHfZdzZe9nf4rz6ixtaC6X?usp=sharing here you will find more photos from previous Itinerant Festivals

Main Sponsor: DMJ Mercedes of Maurizio De Mariani

 

Partners: ACQUA ORSINI, GIORGIO CORVAGLIA, OFFICINA PAAR,

Social Partners: FRATRES, INTEGRATION.

Official Concert Carrier: SOUTH EAST RAILWAYS

Technical partners: BUSFORFUN, CARRA, FASSI.

 

 

Festival Notte della Taranta

#taranta25 #WeAreinPuglia

www.lanottedellataranta.it

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STUDIO MURENA AND KETY FUSCO GUESTS OF THE ORCHESTRA NOTTE TARANTA ON AUG. 27

At the August 27 concert in Melpignano (LE), the popular orchestra la Notte della Taranta hosts: the Milan-based collective Studio Murena AND Kety Fusco, a Tuscan musician who defies convention by using her harp, in an innovative way.

Studio Murena is a project of the collective born in Milan in 2018 and composed of five musicians from the conservatory Amedeo Nan (electric guitar), Maurizio Gazzola (electric bass), Matteo Castiglioni (keyboards and synth), Marco Falcon (drums) and Giovanni Ferrazzi (electronics, sampler) who with their original sound will contribute to the realization of a very special version of the traditional Salento song Secuta Secuta. And if the Milanese band among its hits boasts "Harp and Drum," it is Kety Fusco's harp that will intervene on another traditional Aremu musical piece to scan the ancestral rhythm of Salento music by accompanying the powerful sound of tambourines with the refined, yet scratchy notes of her harp. These are of the first two guests of the Popular Orchestra La Notte della Taranta who will take the stage at the August 27 Melpignano concert, now in its 25th edition and directed this year by Dardust, who these days, is rehearsing with the Orchestra residing at the cinema in Calimera the repertoire of the highly anticipated concert, open again and free to the public, after two years of restrictions. The international guest will be Stromae, announced in recent days; instead, the event will be broadcast by Rai 1 on Sept. 1 at 11:15 p.m.

"A little Italian miracle," is how critics have called Studio Murena, a collective that was born in Milan in 2018 by five musicians from the conservatory: After releasing its first work, Crunchy Bites, the group immediately has the opportunity to perform on big stages such as Jazz MI, MusicalZOO and Jazz On The Road. Later, the idea moves towards darker sounds by including MC Carma in its lineup, who characterizes the project with rap verses of conscious and committed intention. Over the course of 2019 the group obtains numerous gratifications, materializing then the possibility of sharing important stages with artists of depth such as The Comet is Coming, , Davide Shorty & Funk ShuiProject and Inoki. Proudly representing all the realities included in his personal sound, the group last in the studio during the pandemic the work for the release of his new project, which, thanks to the collaboration with Costello's, begins an upward path full of satisfaction. The first signs come from Alessio Bertallot, who places the official singles "Password" and "Harp and Drum" within his program Casa Bertallot. Soon after is the turn of Ghemon, who includes "Harp and Drum" in his playlist on the New Scene created for Tidal. With the new singles "Marble," "Eclipse" and "Long John Silver," released between July and November 2020, the value of the collective is officially certified, which arrives at the presentation of the new album "Studio Murena" (Costello'sRecords, The Orchard) with no less than two tracks featured on Spotify's prestigious Global Jazz Rap playlist. THE band has already collaborated with Dardust, for a recording session at Officine Meccaniche in Milan under the guidance and supervision of Taketo Gohara for the artist's new record. Following this experience, in December 2022, the band closes the year with a DJ set for Tommy Hilfiger and Radio Raheem at People's Place in Milan.

From Pisa to Europe, Kety Fusco has taken the international avant-garde scene by storm, and under Caterina Caselli's Sugar Music label she released her first album DAZED in 2020 (with Universal distribution and production by Swiss Grand Prix of Music nominee Aris Bassetti), thanks to which she was nominated for three categories during the last Swiss Live Talents Awards in Bern (CH) and played her compositions in the hall of the Federal Parliament in Bern. KEty Fusco's music is a mix of perseverance and passion, electronic music sometimes to dance to on the one hand and organic research applied to experimentation and contemporary music on the other. Fusco also opened the Locarno Film Festival with an original transcription of the Swiss anthem. In the midst of the global pandemic, despite the interruption of live music, Kety Fusco was then called upon to perform a transcription of Ennio Morricone for the Heroes festival, performing at the Arena di Verona. Fusco reached one of the biggest milestones of her career in 2021, when she was invited by the United Nations to the SDG Global Festival of Action, virtually sharing the stage with Patti Smith and Ben Harper.

 

 

11 AUGUST CARPIGNANO SALENTINO - PIAZZA DUCA D’AOSTA

21:00

FOLKATOMIK

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OFFICINA ZOÈ

 

On Aug. 11, the traveling festival "La Notte della Taranta," makes a stop in Carpignano Salentino. Now in its 25th edition dedicated to the theme "The Tradition of the New," Italy's largest traveling festival crosses 21 towns in Salento from Aug. 4 to 25, with 43 pizzica concerts, more than 400 artists and will lead to the long night of the Concertone on Aug. 27 in Melpignano (Le), with the maestro concertmaster DARDUST, and will be broadcast on RAI 1, Thursday, Sept. 1 at 11:15 p.m.
Rehearsals for the sound journey between memory and vision of the Concertone, kicked off at the Cinema of Calimera with Dardust and the Notte della Taranta Orchestra.


It starts at 9 p.m. with the music of Folkatomic, a group from Turin that offers a concert of music from the global south. The band starts from the experience gained in the world of Folk reproposal to come across sounds belonging to the universe of electronic music. The evocative and archaic sounds of traditional instruments, combined with the colors and depth of electronic sounds, while respecting traditional rhythmic roots, create an innovative, fresh and contemporary language. The intent is to dialogue through the universal language of folk music, to introduce a wider audience to the beauty of southern dialects and sounds, and to promote diversity by bringing them together under the roof of party and dance music, music that has always united peoples and generations. Folkatomik consists of Valeria Quarta, vocals and drums; Oreste Forestieri, woodwinds and ethnic strings; Daniele Li Bassi, producer; and Franco Montanaro, drums and vocals.

To follow, to perform Officina Zoè. It's pure pulse for dance and trance. An enthralling band with an unmistakable sound. The group's strength is the constant search for trance and cyclicity inherent in the arcane rhythm of tambourines and steeped in minimalism in music and singing. This has made possible, over time, the creation of new musical compositions that sing and narrate the world of today, but deeply anchored in and respectful of the philology and language of tradition. Officina Zoè has recorded 10 albums in its history, and a new album "Hypnotica" a singular journey with an unprecedented encounter with electronics is in the works for 2022. The members of the group are: Cinzia Marzo, vocals, tambourine, ethnic flutes, castanets; Lamberto Probo, frame drums, tammorra, udu, spoons, vocals; Donatello Pisanello, diatonic accordions, mandola, mouth harmonica; Giorgio Doveri, violin, mandola, zither, cupa cupa; Silvia Gallone, frame drums, tammorra, maranzano, vocals; Luigi Panico, guitar, mandola, mouth harmonica, nay; Emanuele PHL Flandoli, sound engineer.

 

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AUGUST 12 ALESSANO - PIAZZA DON TONINO BELLO

21:00 Uccio Aloisi Gruppu

To follow Ariacorte Popular Music

AUG. 13 RACALE PIAZZA SAN SEBASTIANO

21:00Mimmo Epifani. To follow Kalurya

 

AUGUST 13 RACALE - PIAZZA SAN SEBASTIANO

21:00Mimmo Epifani. A seguire Kalurya

 

AUGUST 14 LECCE - PIAZZA LIBERTINI

19:00 Pizzica Workshop

21:00 Enzo Petrachi & Folk Band22

To follow Antonio Amato Ensemble hosts Fiorenza Calogero and Marcello Vitale

 

AUGUST 16 UGENTO - PIAZZA SAN VINCENZO

21:00 Pietrevive of Salento

To follow Seven Mouths

Mascarimirì

 

AUGUST 17 ZOLLINO - VILLA COMUNALE

21:00 A SUD DI BELLA CIAO with Riccardo Tesi, Elena Ledda, Lucilla Galeazzi, Gabriella Aiello, Alessio Lega, Nando Citarella, Maurizio Geri, Marzio Del Testa, Claudio Carboni

To follow Criamu

AUG. 18 GALATINA - PIAZZA DANTE ALIGHERI

21:00 Pino Ingrosso

To follow Orchestra Popolare La Notte Della Taranta

 

AUGUST 18 GALATINA PIAZZA DANTE ALIGHERI

21:00 Pino Ingrosso

To follow Orchestra Popolare La Notte Della Taranta

 

AUGUST 19 CASTRIGNANO DE' GRECI - PALAZZO DE GUALTIERIS

21:00 I Calanti

To follow Alla Bua

 

AUGUST 20 CUTROFIANO - PIAZZA MUNICIPIO

21:00 Parafonè

To follow Li Strittuli - Compagnia di Musica Popolare Salentina

 

AUGUST 21 CALIMERA - AREA MERCATALE

21:00 I Trillanti

To follow Kalascima

 

AUGUST 22 MARTIGNANO - PIAZZA DELLA REPUBBLICA

21:00 Briganti Di Terra D'otranto

To follow Orchestra Popolare La Notte Della Taranta

 

AUGUST 23 SOLETO - PIAZZA OSANNA

21:00 Corpo Di Ballo La Notte Della Taranta - Pizzica In Scena

21:30 Rocco Nigro "Come fece come non fece" with Antonio Castrignanò, Giorgio Distante, Redi Hasa, Egidio Marullo, Fabrizio Saccomanno, Giuseppe Spedicato

To follow Enza Pagliara - Fasinfasò with Antongiulio Galeandro, Dario Muci, Gianluca Longo, Claudia De Ventura, Sofia Giordani Pagliara, Viola Centi.

 

AUGUST 24 STERNATIA - PIAZZA UMBERTO I

19:00 Laboratorio Di Pizzica

21:00 Unzapzap Bif Band

To follow Cgs - Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino.

 

AUGUST 25 MARTANO - LARGO PRIMO MAGGIO

21:00 Taranters

To follow Nui...Nisciunu

Armonia Greca

Stella Grande

 

Concertone: Aug. 27 in Melpignano: FREE ENTRANCE

 

The Itinerant Festival is a project of the Notte della Taranta Foundation supported by the Puglia Region, Pugliapromozione, Grecìa salentina and the Diego Carpitella Institute.

 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1etZhAHKKoQpHfZdzZe9nf4rz6ixtaC6X?usp=sharing here you will find more photos from previous Itinerant Festivals

Main Sponsor: DMJ Mercedes of Maurizio De Mariani

 

Partners: ACQUA ORSINI, GIORGIO CORVAGLIA, OFFICINA PAAR,

Social Partners: FRATRES, INTEGRATION.

Official Concert Carrier: SOUTH EAST RAILWAYS

Technical partners: BUSFORFUN, CARRA, FASSI.

 

 

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10 AUGUST GALATONE - PIAZZA SAN SEBASTIANO

19:00

Pizzica workshop

21:00

I TAMBURELLISTI D’OTRANTO 

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KAMAFEI

 

On August 10, the traveling festival "La Notte della Taranta," makes a stop in Galatone. Now in its 25th edition dedicated to the theme "The Tradition of the New," the Ragnatela della Taranta, Italy's largest traveling festival, will cross 21 towns in Salento from Aug. 4 to 25, with 43 pizzica concerts, more than 400 artists and will lead, stage after stage, to the long night of the Concertone on Aug. 27 in Melpignano (Le), with the maestro concertmaster DARDUST, and will be broadcast on RAI 1, Thursday, Sept. 1 at 11:15 p.m.
Rehearsals for the highly anticipated long night of the sound journey between memory and vision kicked off at the Cinema di Calimera with Dardust and the Notte della Taranta Orchestra.
Curated by the Corpo di Ballo della Notte della Taranta, the pizzica workshops return at 7 p.m., unmissable appointments for fans of the Salento dance who gather in the squares of the Festival's host towns to take part in the great dancing patrol. Large inclusive and open circles are formed led by the Taranta dancers who accompany the audience to discover the rhythm of the tambourine and the different expressions of the pizzica: courtship pizzica, pizzica tarantata and pizzica fencing.

Music at 9 p.m. in Piazza San Sebastiano with the Tamburellisti di Otranto. Roots and traditions to be protected and passed on to future generations to remember their essence. Thus was born the idea of Massimo Panarese, a musician from Salento, to put together forty children with a passion for music and a sanguine talent for the tambourine instrument: what comes out is a mix of purest energy, which is linked back to traditions. This sums up the talents of the young group of "Tamburellisti di Otranto," birthed by the artistic - cultural association "Music...ando," desired by maestro Panarese and founded in April 2009, with the intention of bringing children and enthusiasts in general closer to popular music. The Tamburellisti represent a unique piece throughout the country, having established themselves as a real "case," so much so that they have attracted attention and consideration from many quarters: the group's debut took place a little over six years ago, when a small nucleus of 13 baby tamburellisti presented themselves to the public in Otranto, for their first performance. That narrow base, over the months, has grown into an ensemble, consisting of as many as 55 young percussionists.

Next on the stage of the traveling festival were the Kamafei. The word KamaFei is a compound in greek, wanted, sought and thought of by the late Gianni De Santis, which means warmth that flows, that warmth that accompanies the body in every season, which arises from the instruments between the ancient and the modern, the same warmth that is tried to transmit during the concerts which is returned by the audience. Kamafei presents itself to the audience with a show full of energy and full of involvement, a show that starts from respect for the land and roots with an ever-present tambourine that is supported by the innovation of modern instruments with the right balance, Pizzica-Pizzica, with a tambourine that meets modern sounds (never in excessive doses of electric bass notes), vocal melodies attentive to tradition but ready to contaminate and meet with modern styles. The roots of the Salento tradition blend with new sounds and expand to new horizons. The group is composed of: Antonio Melegari, vocals and tambourine; Alessio Giannotta, strings; Vittorio Chittano, accordion; Giovanni Palma, vocals and guitar; Matteo Coppola, drum-set; Marco Palumbo, electric bass.

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Next stop

Aug. 11 in Carpignano Salentino in Piazza Duca D'Aosta. At 9 p.m. music by Folkatomik followed by Officina Zoè.

 

The Itinerant Festival is a project of the Notte della Taranta Foundation supported by Regione Puglia, Pugliapromozione, Grecìa salentina, Diego Carpitella Institute.

 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1etZhAHKKoQpHfZdzZe9nf4rz6ixtaC6X?usp=sharing here you will find more photos of previous Itinerant Festivals

Main Sponsor: DMJ Mercedes of Maurizio De Mariani

 

Partners: ACQUA ORSINI, GIORGIO CORVAGLIA, OFFICINA PAAR,

Social Partners: FRATRES, INTEGRATION.

Official Concert Carrier: SOUTH EAST RAILWAYS

Technical partners: BUSFORFUN, CARRA, FASSI.

 

 

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09 AUGUST CURSI - PIAZZA PIO XII

21:00

FRANCESCO LOCCISANO and ANDREA PICCIONI

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SCAZZACATARANTE

 

On August 9, the traveling festival "La Notte della Taranta," makes a stop in Cursi. Dedicated to the theme "The tradition of the new," this 25th edition, will cross 21 municipalities of Salento from Aug. 4 to 25, with 43 pizzica concerts, more than 400 artists and will lead, stage after stage, to the long night of the Concertone on Aug. 27 in Melpignano (Le), with the master concertmaster DARDUST, and will be broadcast on RAI 1, Thursday, Sept. 1 at 11:15 p.m.

At 9 p.m. the music kicks off in Piazza Pio XII with Francesco Loccisano and Andrea Piccioni. "Tradition is keeping the fire alive, not worshipping its ashes " by Gustav Mahler is the musical focus of Francesco Loccisano (beating guitar) and Andrea Piccioni (tambourine, frame drums, live electronics). Tradition is a living, transforming process that is renewed and regenerated through the unceasing work of its bearers. Exploration of modes and sounds symbolic of the millennial Italian tradition, beyond the classification of "popular," in which tradition is used as a starting platform for a dialogue and sound research through which to deconstruct and reconstruct not through simplistic contamination but on the contrary by digging toward the essence and center of sound. April 2022 saw the release of their first album as a duo, entitled UPGRADE, consisting of original pieces in which tradition renews itself in search of new musical languages and frontiers.

The music then continues with the Scazzacatarante, a musical project that was born in 1998 in Galatina, when a group of friends united by a passion for pizzica- pizzica, decided to carry on the Salento folk tradition. With a pinch of innovation, strong charisma and team spirit, they perform in the most important squares of Salento and beyond, trying to make the pressing rhythm of the pizzica-taranta known in Italy. The new work proposes different musical styles, bringing together the rhythm of the Salento pizzica with raggamuffin and pachanga. Lineup: Tony De Giorgi (Drum and vocals) Matteo Gaballo (Violin and vocals) Davide Donno (Drum and vocals) Roberto Margati (Soprano sax/ clarinet) Luca Congedo (Acoustic drums) Pantaleo De Pascalis (Accordion) Lorenzo Codazzo (Electric bass).

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Next stop

Aug. 10: Galatone in Piazza San Sebastiano. 7 p.m. Pizzica workshop; 9 p.m. Tamburellisti d'Otranto, followed by Kamafei.

The Itinerant Festival is a project of the Fondazione Notte della Taranta supported by Regione Puglia, Pugliapromozione, Grecìa salentina, Istituto Diego Carpitella.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1etZhAHKKoQpHfZdzZe9nf4rz6ixtaC6X?usp=sharing here you will find more photos from previous Itinerant Festivals

Main Sponsor: DMJ Mercedes of Maurizio De Mariani

Partners: ACQUA ORSINI, GIORGIO CORVAGLIA, OFFICINA PAAR,

Social Partners: FRATRES, INTEGRATION.

Official Concert Carrier: SOUTH EAST RAILWAYS

Technical partners: BUSFORFUN, CARRA, FASSI.

 

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08 AUGUST NOCIGLIA - PIAZZA RUGGIERI

21:00

CARDISANTI

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CANZONIERE JONICO PIZZICATI INT’ ALLU CORE

The traveling festival "La Notte della Taranta," makes a stop in Nociglia on Aug. 8. A 25th edition dedicated to the theme "The tradition of the new," which from Aug. 4 to 25 will cross 21 municipalities of Salento, with 43 pizzica concerts, more than 400 artists and will lead, stage after stage, to the long night of the Concertone on Aug. 27 in Melpignano (Le), with the maestro concertatore DARDUST, and will be broadcast on RAI 1, Thursday, Sept. 1 at 11:15 p.m.

The festival stage will light up at 9 p.m. with the music of I Cardisanti, a group born in the wake of the great singers of their own town, Cutrofiano, who will perform the concert "I fiori e le radici," the result of more than 20 years of research into Salento's musical roots and work on sounds to personalize songs with original arrangements. The new show, studied in every detail for the 2022 season, has a strong cultural imprint: it re-proposes the values of the peasant civilization that existed in Salento until very few decades ago and includes, in addition to the pizzica, work songs, love songs, serenades, other traditional songs and a space dedicated to the memory of the old great Salento singers who have contributed in a decisive way to the affirmation of the music of the area as a great cultural resource. The show aims to entertain the audience and at the same time to remember, spread and enhance the values of the peasant civilization. Composing I Cardisanti: Giuseppe Cesari, guitar and narrator; Antonio Polimeno, mandolin, guitar and vocals; Vittorio Chittano, accordion; Alessio Giannotta, mandola and guitar; Marina Leuzzi, vocals; Enzo Polimeno, tammorra and tambourine; Filippo Campa tambourine.

This will be followed by Il Canzoniere Jonico Pizzicati int'allu Core, evidence of some 30 years of folk tradition of the upper Salento and Ionian area, but also a clear manifestation of folk music evolution and contamination. World Music group from the Ionian aera was selected for the Targa Tenco for their album "Sciamu." Their record project between 2019 and 2020 also conquered film festivals around the world thanks to the single of the same name that became a musical short film written and directed by Valerio Manisi, band leader of the Canzoniere. They now offer a research show, combining the folk music of Puglia, upper Salento, and the liveliness of folk with the polyphony of world musics and the importance of different social issues. The group consists of Valerio Manisi, vocals and drums; Claudio De Vittorio, vocals, mandoloncello and bouzouki; Bruno Galeone, accordion; Domenico Nisi, violin; Carlo Massarelli, vocals and horns; Cosimo Pastore, vocals, guitar and beating guitar; Stefano Scatigna, harmonica and mouth and drums; Domenico Pignatelli, bass; and Giacomo Abatematteo, drums.

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Next stop

Aug. 09 Cursi Piazza Pio XII at 9 p.m. with Francesco Loccisano and Andrea Piccioni Upgrade. To be followed by Scazzacatarante.

The Itinerant Festival is a project of Fondazione Notte della Taranta supported by Regione Puglia, Pugliapromozione, Grecìa salentina, Istituto Diego Carpitella.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1etZhAHKKoQpHfZdzZe9nf4rz6ixtaC6X?usp=sharing here you will find more photos from previous Itinerant Festivals

Main Sponsor: DMJ Mercedes di Maurizio De Mariani

Partners: ACQUA ORSINI, GIORGIO CORVAGLIA, OFFICINA PAAR,

Social Partners: FRATRES, INTEGRATION.

Official Concert Carrier: SOUTH EAST RAILWAYS

Technical partners: BUSFORFUN, CARRA, FASSI.

 

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07 AUGUST - SOGLIANO CAVOUR PIAZZA FALCONE BORSELLINO

21:00

FONDO VERRI

DO ONLY WHAT ENCHANTS YOU

Concert-Recital with G. Piero Rapanà, Simone Franco, Daria Falco, Bruno Galeone, Emanuele Coluccia, Vincenzo Grasso, Davide Chiarelli

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TAMBURELLISTI DI TORREPADULI

 

On August 7, the traveling festival "La Notte della Taranta," makes a stop in Sogliano Cavour. Now in its 25th edition dedicated to the theme "The Tradition of the New," the Ragnatela della Taranta, Italy's largest traveling festival, will cross 21 towns in Salento from Aug. 4 to 25, with 43 pizzica concerts, more than 400 artists and will lead, stage after stage, to the long night of the Concertone on Aug. 27 in Melpignano (Le), with the maestro concertmaster DARDUST, and will be broadcast on RAI 1, Thursday, Sept. 1 at 11:15 p.m.

The evening kicks off at 9 p.m. with music from the Fondo Verri- Concert-Recital "Fate solo quel che vi incanta." Antonio Leonardo Verri, has always been confronted with time, clear in telling, describing and defining the origin of his poetic feeling and action and at the same time capable of foreshadowing and foreshadowing the future. Words and language the place of her constant searching, of her con-fusing with sound, "sense," every meaning, every narrative possibility. If she made Verri's words ring in her head before she wrote them down, she would gauge their musicality, if she repeated them, she would tune them with her breath, with the beating of her heart and with the wind. He had an American love Verri: John Cage and many musician friends with whom to compare himself, he did so by standing in listening to silence. The recital concerts texts from: "Bread Under the Snow," "Bucherer the Watchmaker," "The Trophies of the City of Guisnes," "The Harmony Maker," a chorus of voices recited by actors G. Piero Rapanà, Simone Franco, and sung by Daria Falco accompanied by Bruno Galeone's accordion, Emanuele Coluccia on piano and sax, and Vincenzo Grasso on clarinet and Davide Chiarelli on percussion.

Next up is the turn of the Tamburellisti di Torrepaduli. In 1990, researcher Pierpaolo de Giorgi and repository Amedeo De Rosa founded the group "Pierpaolo De Giorgi e I Tamburellisti di Torrepaduli," re-evaluating the "pizzica pizzica" that had been used for centuries in Salento as a folk therapy, and reworking it in a progressive key but with deep respect for tradition. De Giorgi's rigorous studies were joined by the extraordinary dancers and players of Torrepaduli, creating an artistic proposal that is both traditional and innovative. The group has recorded numerous albums, which have met with great favor with the public and marked a decisive turning point in Apulian and Italian folk music. They have always surprised everyone with the virtuosity of percussion, the result of their insistent search for new formulas and rhythmic grooves to apply to the tambourine, with the swirling techniques of dance and with the artistic and poetic content of their songs. The Torrepaduli Tamburellists are: Pierpaolo De Giorgi voice and guitar; Donato Nuzzo accordion and tambourine; Rocco Luca tambourine; Gioele Nuzzo tambourine and deejeridoo; Michele Wilde violin; Anna Costa voice.

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Next stop

Aug. 08 Nociglia Piazza Ruggieri. 9 p.m. Cardisanti followed by Canzoniere Jonico pizzicati int' allu core.

The Itinerant Festival is a project of Fondazione Notte della Taranta supported by Regione Puglia, Pugliapromozione, Grecìa salentina, Istituto Diego Carpitella.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1etZhAHKKoQpHfZdzZe9nf4rz6ixtaC6X?usp=sharing here you will find more photos from previous Itinerant Festivals

Main Sponsor: DMJ Mercedes of Maurizio De Mariani

Partners: ACQUA ORSINI, GIORGIO CORVAGLIA, OFFICINA PAAR,

Social Partners: FRATRES, INTEGRATION.

Official Concert Carrier: SOUTH EAST RAILWAYS

Technical partners: BUSFORFUN, CARRA, FASSI.

 

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