The second edition of the Festival of Popular Music of Southern Italy is underway: guests, concerts, workshops, conferences and lots of music inside the Real Bosco di Capodimonte

It is our duty to recognize cultural diversity and host it here, in the Real Bosco di Capodimonte” says Director Sylvain Bellenger during the press conference to present the second edition of the Festival della Musica Popolare del Sud Italia, scheduled from 20 to 23 June 2019, thanks to the support of the Campania Region (Project “Napoli è l'arte” of the POC-Programma operativo Complementare 2014-2020) at the Porta di Mezzo of the Real Bosco di Capodimonte: concerts, folk dance courses, round tables on theatre and folk music.
Carlo Faiello, who will be on stage with his band on Saturday 22 June at 21.00:XNUMX p.m., echoes this sentiment: “Tradition must be re-proposed through one’s own personal experience, it is a show that is continually renewed. Crystallizing it in the past means making it die”. And then, without hiding a hint of emotion – “it’s the first time I’ve played here in the Bosco di Capodimonte” – he announces his musical program: “With Argiento Vivo I will pay homage to all the regions of Southern Italy, from Puglia with the canto a stanza di Carpino, to Basilicata and Molise. Saltarello, canto a fronne 'e limone with the sound of tammorre marking the rhythm of the dances”.
Also present was Giulio Adilnolfi, an expert in popular theatre and speaker at the round tables.
Dominus of the event Aurora Giglio, president of the MusiCapodimonte association organizer of the Festival together with Rachele Cimmino of the association il Canto di Virgilio, both committed to the diffusion of traditional popular music.
The Festival, with free admission, will have its operational base at Porta di Mezzo (closest entrance Porta Piccola) but there will be no shortage of itinerant music in the avenues of the Bosco. A true community experience to recover, preserve and spread traditional music, with the contagion of notes and dances.
Two evening concerts:
Friday 21 June, 21.00-22.30 pm: Alla Bua in concert, a group from Puglia specializing in pizzica salentina, several times on stage at the “Notte della Taranta”.
Saturday 22 June, 21.00-22.30 pm: Carlo Faiello in “Argiento Vivo”, author of songs that have become true classics of popular music.
Folk dance workshops for adults and children (Thursday 20 and Friday 21 June, 17.30:19.00-22:17.30 p.m.). Round tables on the theme of Posteggia (Saturday 23 June, 17.30:XNUMX p.m.) and on Popular Theatre (Sunday XNUMX June, XNUMX:XNUMX p.m.) with actors Giulio Adinolfi, Oscar di Maio and Corrado Taranto, with the aim of creating, in the next season, as many reviews on the historical song and the ancient art of Posteggia and on the recovery of the Campanian Popular Theatre.