After 12 days of intense activities, including panels and debates and above all lots of music, the twelfth edition of Music against the mafias, this year Music for Change. It's Neapolitan Francesco Lettieri the winner of this edition of the Award. On the podium to follow also the band from Salerno Yosh Whale and the Pisans Red Cubes.
Since September 13th, the artistic residencies of the BoCs Art in Cosenza have been populated by eight finalist artists – Sugar, Vybes, Cubirossi, Kumi, Yosh Whale, Alic'è, Francesco Lettieri, and Cranìa – who, together with their coaches (Cecilia Cesario, Stefano Amato, Dinastia, and Vladimir Costabile), tutors (Cance, Sir & theivanoe, Alfredo Bruno, and Francesco Malizia), and colleagues, have composed songs with a civic theme.
Resistance and Democracy, Environment and Ecology, Digital Citizenship (and Derivatives), Gender Equality and LGBTQ+ Rights, Work and Dignity, Migration and Peoples, Inequalities and Social Marginality, Regeneration and Future are the themes on which the young artists have worked to give life to new music.
The same themes were the subject of debates, meetings and panels together with illustrious guests, including Don Luigi Ciotti, Giovanni Impastato, Nicola Gratteri, Antonio Nicaso, Annalisa Cuzzocrea, Nello Scavo, Yvan Sagnet, Aboubakar Soumahoro, Sergio Costa and many others.
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After three evenings dedicated to the format “Tenco listens with Music against the mafia” in which the board of directors Club Tenco, with the artistic director Sergio Secondiano Sacchi, listened to the artists of this edition, on the evening of September 24, conducted by Roberto Lipari in the magical setting of the Swabian Castle of Cosenza, the finalists played their unreleased songs live in recent days.
To decree the winners in this national final "Boot Up Stage”, three Artist Deciders: Rose Villain, Cristiano Godano, Riccardo Sinigallia supported by Sergio Cerruti (AFI president). Alongside them a jury of 60 very young artists – “Alpha Zeta”.
After three days of showcases with Villa Zuk, Avincola and Cristiano Godano, the awards were presented on the final evening hosted by Gabriella Martinelli, which saw three bands much appreciated by the general public take to the stage at the Castello Svevo: Ministers, The Social State and Fast Animals and Slow KidsThey were the ones who received the special Music Against the Mafia award.
