From September 7th to October 1st 2023 – Artistic direction Gigi Di Luca
www.festivalethnos.it
World music on stage on the slopes of Vesuvius for the Ethnos festival. From September 7 to October 1, 2023, in 6 municipalities on the Vesuvian coast - Ercolano, Naples, Portici, San Giorgio a Cremano, Torre Annunziata and Torre del Greco - the XNUMXth edition of the international world music festival conceived and directed by Gigi Di Luca will be held.
Also this year, big names in ethnic music are expected, as well as new realities and musicians from 12 different countries, for a great celebration of meeting, contamination and hospitality. Also on the program are workshops, thematic events dedicated to dance and theater and the finals of the Ethnos GenerAzioni competition, aimed at artists under 35.
The 2023 edition of Ethnos will bring sounds, cultures, traditions and partly unknown worlds to the villas of the Golden Mile and the historical sites of the Vesuvian area, leading spectators on a journey across the various continents. Throughout the month of September, artists from Angola, Brazil, Ivory Coast, France, Greece, India, Iran, Morocco, Mongolia, Senegal and Spain, as well as from various regions of Italy, will alternate on the itinerant stage of the festival.
Among the protagonists of this edition - which will be inaugurated at Villa Vannucchi in San Giorgio a Cremano by the multi-ethnic group Ayom, whose name in Candomblè mythology represents the Lord of Music - there will be: the French pianist and composer of Martinican origin Chassol, the new Afro-pop star Dobet Gnahoré, an Ivorian singer and dancer who won a Grammy Award, the Senegalese Seckou Keita, one of the most important kora players in the world, Amrat Hussain Brothers Trio from Rajasthan, Epi (real name Enkhjargal Dandarvaanchig) a musician and singer originally from Ulan Bator, musical ambassador of Mongolia, the Brazilian singer and multi-instrumentalist Bia Ferreira, an anti-racist activist and supporter of the LGBTQIA+ community. And again, Bab L'Bluz, a Franco-Moroccan band that fuses traditional Gnawa and Hassani music with rock and blues, Ana Crismán the first musician in the world to interpret and compose flamenco with the harp, the singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Puglia Rachele Andrioli and the “Songs of Hope” project with the ambassador of Persian music and Grammy Award winner, Kayhan Kalhor together with the setar virtuoso Kiva Tabassian and Behnam Samani on tombak.
This edition features three special projects: the recital by Pamela Villoresi “Della Profetessa e di Spartaco” with Massimo De Matteo and live music by Mimmo Maglionico, Roberto Trenca and Gabriele Borrelli, directed by Gigi Di Luca; the original production La Banda del Sud, which brings together 10 talents selected from the 6 regions of Southern Italy in a large popular music orchestra, directed by Mario Crispi; and the site-specific show “Il Canto delle Mani” with choreography by Gabriella Stazio to the music of the workers' group 'E Zezi.
"The bond between Ethnos and its territory is a strong bond, which has been renewed for 28 years through a cultural project that touches different places and cities and which has intercepted that need for knowledge of other cultures, of the different, even before migrations reached us" declares artistic director Gigi Di Luca.
“Ethnos has always combined the beauty of historical places with the contemporary, sometimes painful, content of stories and music from distant, oppressed and exploited territories. The world has changed and with it the way of living and informing ourselves, but our way of exploring and telling it is still the same. Ethnos’ music speaks of human rights, freedom, the fight against racism, contaminations and fusions of languages. It speaks of creativity and research, but above all it speaks and wants to continue to speak of peace and beauty”.
Thanks to the programming of numerous activities aimed at meeting and communion between peoples and different languages, Ethnos aims to create a bridge between the memory of the past and the vision of the future, between tradition and contemporaneity with a careful eye on the problems of migration, integration and the Mediterranean.
Born in 1995 with the aim of recovering the archaic traditions of the Vesuvian area, over the years the festival has expanded its range of action becoming one of the major observatories of ethnic music and world music in Italy.
The 28th edition of the Ethnos festival is organized by La Bazzarra and financed by the Campania Region through Scabec and the Ministry of Culture, with the support of the municipalities of Ercolano, Portici, San Giorgio a Cremano, Torre Annunziata and Torre del Greco, the contribution of the Banca di Credito Popolare and with the collaboration of the Fondazione Ente Ville Vesuviane and the Department of Agriculture of the University of Naples Federico II.
Tickets – at the symbolic cost of 5 euros, with the exception of the show “Songs of Hope” which costs 10 euros – will be available starting from Friday 1 September on the Azzurro Service circuit and at the box office set up in the various locations that will host the concerts. Pre-sale info: tel. 081 5934001 – www.azzurroservice.net.
For information and contacts: Tel. 3287232399 – info@labazarra.com
Article published on 30 August 2023 - 13:00
