ETHNOS Festival, concerts scheduled from 19th to 22nd September

The 14th edition of ETHNOS, an international ethnic music festival (29-2019 September XNUMX), conceived and directed by Gigi Di Luca, comes to life with a series of itinerant concerts in various municipalities in the province of Naples, in an ideal embrace that extends from Vesuvius to the Gulf of Naples.
Thursday 19 SEPTEMBER 20.30 pm: HASA-MAZZOTTA (Albania/Italy) – GRUMO NEVANO – Palazzo Landolfo.
“Novilunio” is the title of the second album by Albanian cellist Redi Hasa and Salento singer Maria Mazzotta, released in 2017 for Ponderosa Music Records. The two artists, who since 2010 have reinvented the musical traditions of their homelands, Redi Hasa's Albania and Maria Mazzotta's Salento, draw inspiration from each other in the perfect fusion between the sumptuous, lyrical and introspective sound of the cellist that Ludovico Einaudi always wants with him and that Robert Plant called to play in his latest album, and the luminous and thaumaturgic interpretation of one of the leading voices of the Salento Renaissance, already known for her partnership with the Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino. The foundations of the project's repertoire are the stories of their respective homelands, of the people of Old Europe and of migrants from all times and places, which Maria and Redi interpret and re-propose according to their own feelings. Flavors, scents, lights and shadows of human existence are transformed into sounds that involve and into stories that enchant, or more simply into emotions. Experimentation and improvisation are tools dosed with wisdom to feel the belonging of a piece and to imprint one's own personality on it.
Redi Hasa: cello; Maria Mazzotta: voice
Friday 20 SEPTEMBER 20.30 pm: RIONE JUNNO (Italy), VOLLA – Ex Masseria De Carolis.
Rione Junno is a very lively reality of Italian ethnic music and in recent years has had hundreds of concerts throughout Italy and the world: Canada, Tunisia, France, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Albania, including the most important Italian festivals in the sector.
Rione Junno's path actually begins in 2002 when he enters permanently in "Taranta Power", the movement founded by Eugenio Bennato, with the first recordings and discographic collaborations and numerous tours in Italy and abroad. It is Eugenio Bennato who strongly wanted the group in his world project and directed it in its first artistic steps.
The group has collaborated over the years and shared the stage with practically all the most important 'names' in Italian music: from Eugenio Bennato, to Cantori di Carpino, to Marcello Vitale, Daniele Sepe, Bisca, Antonio Infantino, Nidi d'Arac, Erasmo Petringa, Roy Paci, Tony Esposito, Marcello Colasurdo, Almamegretta, 99 Posse, Peppe Voltarelli, Otello Profazio, E 'Zezi, Cisco (Modena City Ramblers), Ginevra di Marco, Pietra Montecorvino, Enzo Gragnaniello, Luca Rossi, Francesco Loccisano, Alfio Antico, Officina Zoè, Sha-One (La Famiglia).
Training
Federico Scarabino: voice and guitar; Biagio de Nittis: voice and beating guitar; Chiara Carnevale: voice and percussion; Alessia Tudda: dance performer; Fulvio di Nocera: bass
Saturday 21 SEPTEMBER at 20.30 pm
SUREALISTAS (Argentina/Italy), CERCOLA – Liberty Square.
What would happen if three Argentine brothers and their Italian step-siblings shared the same dream? A dream full of original songs that are at the same time rooted in tradition, where Afro-Cuban rhythms and Andean cadences mix with the slang and humor of Buenos Aires. This is the dream of the SuRealistas, which has already become partly a reality with their first album of unreleased material (2016), an artistic residency at Exwide in Pisa (2017-18) and a European tour between France, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland and Germany. At the end of 2018, the SuRealistas released their second album, with the idea of ​​reviving the same energy of the concerts in the studio: the result is «Canta», an album of eleven tracks, the fruit of an ensemble that has been able to unite and highlight various artistic personalities, collaborating synergistically with classy guests and exceptional sound engineers.
2019 will be another golden year for SuRealistas with concerts around Europe (Hungary,
Slovenia, Slovakia, Germany and Belgium), unforgettable openings (at Wemblers and Grupo Compay Segundo) and the release of the second video clip.
Training
Jeremías Cornejo: vocals, guitar, ukulele, percussion; Agustín Cornejo: vocals, guitar; Mauro La Mancusa: trumpet, percussion; Joaquín Cornejo: vocals, piano, percussion; Gianni Valenti: tenor sax; Matteo Bonti: double bass; Pietro Borsò: percussion, drums.
Sunday 22nd SEPTEMBER at 20pm
CESARE DELL'ANNA & OPA CUPA (Italy), BACOLI – Villa Ferretti Park
Almost twenty years have passed since the first Opa Cupa cell was formed in 98, the band represents the first Balkan project born in Salento. Opa Cupa is the story of unrepeatable testimonies, it is a story of immigration, the story of travels and departures in which sharing and exploration generate a powerful alchemy capable of breaking down social barriers in the face of confrontation between apparently distant and different ethnic groups and cultures. Opa Cupa is the south of the world from which the new ferment is born, it is the forgotten periphery on the margins from which changes are generated. The artistic path of the band is characterized by the search for Balkan melodies that intersect with the typical sounds of Southern Italy. Enriched by progressive jazz nuances and embellished by odd and irregular tempos, they create a perfect combination of tradition and avant-garde. The explosive band led by Maestro Cesare Dell'Anna has nourished itself over the years with contaminations, experiments and dynamism. Thanks to this spirit of inclusion and lyrics full of socio-cultural messages, Opa Cupa have found fertile ground over the years throughout Italy but also in Europe, moving from Spain to Germany, from France to England and from various Eastern countries to the States for a long tour, breaking down linguistic and cultural resistance.
Training
Cesare Dell'Anna: trumpet; Irene Lungo: vocals; Ekland Hasa: keyboard; Stefano Valenzano: bass; Antonio De Marianis: drums; Gino Semeraro: electric guitar; Andrea Doremi: tuba
Ethnos, thanks to the programming of numerous activities aimed at the meeting and communion between peoples and different languages, aims to create a bridge between the memory of the past and the vision of the future, between the tradition and the contemporaneity of art with a careful eye on the problems of migration, integration and the Mediterranean.
Born in 1995 with the intent of recovering the archaic traditions of the Vesuvian area, over the years it has expanded its range of action becoming one of the major observers of ethnic music and world music in Italy. With its itinerant formula it has always involved various sites in the Vesuvian area - from the Villas of the Golden Mile to the cultural heritage of the Vesuvius coast - enhancing them and opening them to the general public with shows, new productions and exclusive concerts.
The Ethnos festival is conceived by La Bazzarra, organized by the Municipality of San Giorgio a Cremano, financed by the Campania Region, with the collaboration of the municipalities present in the project and local associations.
All scheduled events are free to enter until seats are filled.
FOR INFO: La Bazzarra tel. 081 80 8823978 – 327 3168292
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