LThe popular culture of Southern Italy, its community magic, its musical and choreographic rituals become the manifesto of the Notte della Tammorra, a project promoted and financed by the Municipality of Naples for “Naples City of Music” and organized by the Santa Chiara Orchestra association with the artistic direction of the musician and composer Carlo Faiello.
For the 22nd edition, entitled “Metropolis Folk”, the event will see dozens of musicians, dancers, performers and singers converge in Piazza Mercato. Two evenings to be fully experienced, those of Friday 6 and Saturday 7 September, which assume the role of zenith in the research on traditions.
“With The Night of the tammorra – declares Sergio Locoratolo, coordinator of cultural policies of the Municipality of Naples – Piazza Mercato confirms itself as another center of the city, and the beating heart of a Naples that protects its history and its musical traditions and that, at the same time, looks to the future, encouraging dialogue between different generations of artists and spectators.
The beating heart of Naples that in music, and in culture, recognizes a fundamental tool for the growth of a community”. The star of the opening night this time is the singer and actress Lina Sastri. On Saturday the music of Enzo Avitabile will be the protagonist, making his debut at this festival.
“This year too we have managed to create a multiple and heterogeneous program,” reiterates Carlo Faiello. “The focus of the 22nd edition is the transformation of popular music and song in the transition from rural and extra-urban culture to the present day. The changes that the sound of oral tradition has undergone in contact with the music generated in the Neapolitan metropolis.”
"Naples - observes Ferdinando Tozzi, the Mayor's delegate for the music and audiovisual industry - has a tradition rich in sounds, songs and dances, which must be protected and enhanced, also reinterpreted in the light of more current sounds. In line with the Naples City of Music project, the 2024 edition of La Notte della Tammorra will start from the rites and rhythms of tradition to embrace the present and explore, through workshops, conferences and performances, our musical identity and its future developments".
Lina Sastri will propose a mix of traditional songs alternating them with compositions by Roberto De Simone and Faiello himself. Completing the cast of Friday 6 are Ars Nova Napoli, Bagarjia Orkestar and the set 'Il canto libero delle giovani donne' with Simona Boo, Irene Scarpato, Denise Di Maria and Lavinia Mancusi in the radical homage to the voices of Giovanna Marini and Rosa Balistreri.
Finally, the Tammurriate by Biagio De Prisco, the youngest virtuoso of the Sarnese-Nocera area. Saturday 7th, space for Enzo Avitabile accompanied by Bottari di Portico, a percussive ensemble that plays barrels, sickles and vats to revive the millenary ritual of the pastellessa. Opening, the tammurriate by Raffaele Inserra and closing with the Tammurriata della Madonna Avvocata, between catharsis and obsession.
Conceived with the aim of valorising and rediscovering traditional Campanian music, dance and songs through their representation and contamination with different musical genres, the Notte della Tammorra is a festival of popular music and culture created by the Neapolitan composer and musicologist Carlo Faiello.
The event has its origins in the ancient festival 'a Notte de' Tammorre held for centuries in Comiziano, near Nola, during the Epiphany festivity. Carlo Faiello rediscovered and brought to light its remote expressive codes in the late 90s, when they were by then removed from collective memory and gradually created an event in which dance, ritual, popular customs, music and entertainment find connection until they are shaped into a single creative performance in which nationally famous artists perform together with old and historic exponents of the popular scene.
On stage, the coexistence between professional musicians, expert singers, young drummers, virtuoso dancers and dancers is generated and explodes. Tradition thus changes its forms but remains very much alive. And it confirms itself as one of the main matrices – archaic and contemporary – of Naples and its people.
Regardless of nostalgia and oleographs. For the 22nd edition, moreover, Carlo Faiello has chosen to multiply the itineraries, thoughts and proposals, expanding the contents to create a cartography of meetings that embrace the time frame 2-7 September. At this point it is clear that the project expands to become the week of the tammorra, hosting many dance and drum workshops and some conversations on this precious sonic universe.
From Monday 2nd September in the church of Santa Croce e Purgatorio al Mercato there will be free folk dance courses curated by Mariagrazia Altieri. And on Thursday 5th September in the same church the conference Metropolis Folk – Città Madre che crea,accoglienza e ritorna will take place.
Speakers will include Vincenzo Esposito, professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Salerno, and Ugo Vuoso, from the Institute of Historical and Anthropological Studies. Moderator will be Franco Sorvillo, head of the Ceic – Centro etnografico campano. With the participation of Renato Marengo, music critic and producer/author.
Article published by Regina Ada Scarico on August 21, 2024 - 19:55 AM
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