Amalfi Summer Fest, the 2022 summer program prepared by the Municipal Administration of Amalfi led by Mayor Daniele Milano, will host legends of the world music scene and iconic artists who will intersect with the great Italian tradition.
Kenny Garret, Kelly Joyce, Joe Bastianich & La terza Classe, Papik, Nino Buonocore, and also NapoliOpera, the great pieces by Eduardo, Massimiliano Gallo will be just some of the artists who will alternate on one of the most beautiful and fascinating stages in the world, the Amalfi Cathedral, to then move with itinerant events to more intimate spaces of the City, in an emotional journey to discover the most suggestive and hidden corners, rich in history.
The Ancient Maritime Republic will be the setting for Amalfi in Jazz, the sophisticated festival that will transform Piazza Duomo into a refined musical salon every Friday in July. The Amalfi d'Autore literary festival is also included in the program, with four events that will take place between July and September.
The Sunset Concert with the Accademia Mandolinistica Napoletana and the consolidated tradition of the Gran Concerto di Ferragosto with SCS International Symphony Orchestra & Soloists will return to thrill, to then leave room for the great celebrations of the Byzantine New Year. A varied and transversal program, in line with the tastes and trends of the different generations, up to the youngest, with great music always played live.
The Amalfi in Jazz festival will open the season of events, Friday 8 July (22 pm in Piazza Duomo). The protagonist is Frankie & Canthina Band in “Barry White Tribute”. A historic band led by Frankie Lo Vecchio, which offers an international Soul/Funky/Dance/ 70/80 repertoire, with driving rhythms and a 15-piece orchestra, to pay homage to the King of black music.
Friday July 15th special guest of Amalfi in Jazz will be the Kenny Garrett Quintet. A jazz legend, his career took off when he joined Duke Ellington's orchestra in 1978. With Kenny Garrett on alto and tenor saxophone, Corcoran Holt on acoustic bass, Rudy Bird on percussion, Keith Brown on piano and Ronald Bruner on drums.
Friday 22nd July Papik arrives, a musical project born from an idea of the Roman arranger and composer Nerio Poggi, author and producer, which ranges from pop to nu jazz, from Bossa Nova to Soul. A 7-piece band with Alan Scaffardi on vocals (currently on the radio with one of the biggest hits of the moment).
Friday 29 July an artist who has written important pages of Italian pop music from the 80s onwards, ready to revisit his repertoire in a jazz key with an exceptional band, Nino Buonocore Band, for the occasion joined by Antonio Fresa on the piano, Antonio De Luise on the double bass and Amedeo Ariano on the drums.
The month of August opens on Wednesday 3rd at 21.30:XNUMX pm in Piazza Municipio with the concert of Joe Bastianich & La Terza Classe. The project was born from the meeting between the “Restaurant Man” and the Neapolitan band. Joe's passion for American rock, blues, soul and folk music and the immediate empathy that was created with the Neapolitan band, lives again in a live show characterized by an irresistible musical mix of hillbilly, western swing, country and folk, in the best American tradition.
Monday 8 August, 21.30:XNUMX pm in Piazza Duomo Kelly Joice in DeCanto Project. A project that is the result of two of Kelly's passions: music and food and wine. It thus represents two of the categories that have been most affected by the crisis caused by the pandemic: The world of entertainment and that of catering.
Friday 12 August at 19.30 pm Sunset Concert with the Accademia Mandolinistica Napoletana in 'Serenata Luntana', which this year changes location and moves to the sea-view square of the Pastena village of Amalfi.
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A journey to tell Naples with all its contradictions, with its joys, bitterness, happiness and feelings through a repertoire of timeless songs. With Valentina Assorto on vocals, Mauro Squillante and Adolfo Tronco on mandolin, Luca Petrosino on mandola, Leonardo Massa on mandoloncello and Lorenzo Marino on guitar.
Sunday 14 August (21.15 pm, Piazza Duomo), Grand Ferragosto concert with SCS International Symphony Orchestra & Soloists. A 40-piece orchestra for the traditional Amalfi summer concert, with famous classics of symphonic opera and Neapolitan song.
Space at the Theater on Sunday 21 August (21.00 pm, Arsenale della Repubblica) with Massimiliano Gallo in Resilienza 3.0. With irony, the audience will relive the moments of quarantine together with Gallo: the fears, the boredom, the immobility, the desire to escape, the online lessons, the home gym, in a problematic and sometimes dramatically comical sharing of living spaces.
Naples returns to the forefront on Tuesday 23 August (21.15 pm, Piazza Municipio) with NapoliOpera in concert – From the Italian Orchestra of Renzo Arbore, a tribute to the “Neapolitan Song”.
Also at the Arsenale della Repubblica, Wednesday 24 August h 21.00, the classic Sabato, Domenica e lunedì, a masterpiece by the genius of Eduardo De Filippo. Curated by the Cultural Association “Il Proscenio”, with the extraordinary participation of Anna Rita Vitolo and the direction of Lucia Amato.
Space for reflection and debate on current events with Amalfi d'Autore – Rassegna Letteraria, which will start with “Condominio, Addio!” is the delightful and unpredictable novel in which, between attacks of “reverie”, encounters dictated by fate and disarming discoveries, the imperturbable Cico, a misanthrope with a heart of gold, seems willing to change not only his home address, written by Enrica Bonaccorti who will be in Amalfi in Largo Duca Piccolomini on Sunday 24 July at 21 pm.
On Friday 5 August (21.00:XNUMX p.m., Largo Duca Piccolomini) sociologist Domenico De Masi will present 'La felicità negata'. “There is no progress without happiness – he writes – and there can be no happiness in a world marked by the unequal distribution of wealth, work, power, knowledge, opportunities and protections”.
Wednesday 10 August (21.00 pm, Largo Duca Piccolomini) guest Totò Cascio, author of “La Gloria e la Prova. Il mio nuovo Cinema Paradiso 2.0” protagonist of the unforgettable masterpiece by Giuseppe Tornatore, who will touch the souls with his autobiographical story.
Friday 26 August (21pm Largo Duca Piccolomini) the Municipality of Amalfi and the Amalfi Culture Center present the poetry of Corrado Calabrò “Fifth dimension. Selected poems 1958 – 2021), with contributions from Corrado Calabrò poet, Carlo Di Lieto literary critic, Giuseppe Gargano historian, Giovanni Camelia scientific director of the Amalfi Culture and History Center, Lorenza Rocco essayist, Marcello Di Manna musician, Fabia Baldi poet, Antonio Filippetti journalist.
Also included in the broader Amalfi Summer Fest program is the itinerant festival Borghi in Festa, with musical evenings that will wind through the most beautiful inland locations of Amalfi, with stops in Tovere on July 25, in Pogerola on August 16 and on September 6 in Lone.
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