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 The Foundation has decided to focus on a new social to tell all the activities of the Festival and the Concertone, after already having Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram channels under its belt.  An important social presence that highlights how La Notte della Taranta has long set up a web presence strategy to exploit all the features of the web in narrating the rich musical and choreographic heritage of the pizzica. In just a few hours, the video made with Orchestra tambourine player Roberto Chiga on the sonic use of "tablets" reached 20K views.

The rehearsals of the Popular Orchestra La Notte della Taranta conducted by concertmaster Dardust continue at Cinema Elio in Calimera in anticipation of the final Concertone in Melpignano on August 27, now in its 25th edition, which returns to embrace the audience.  The maestro concertmaster Dardust already since January together with the Resident Orchestra has started the work of research and reinterpretation of the songs of the Salento folk tradition.  "It will be a Taranta as fluid as the contemporaneity we live. I believe that we are in an age whose concept of integration is also fundamental on a cultural level, a multiculturalism of which Stromae has made the basic concept, which is why the choice of the international artist was not accidental, but thoughtful and strongly desired. Stromae on the Concertone stage, Dardust reveals, will propose one of his most famous and well-known pieces, Alor on Danse with forays into Salento folk music. A reinterpretation of the famous song that meets tradition and will be able to surprise and excite the audience.

A fluid, multi-colored and "spatial" Taranta. A spaceship that starts from the past with the decisive and ancestral sound of the tambourine, takes a tour around the world of electronics and projects itself into the future of the pizzica, so that of the maestro concertatore Dardust, who this morning during the rehearsal open to the press presented two songs from the concertone performed by the Orchestra Popolare La Notte della Taranta: pizzica di Aradeo and pizzica di Ostuni.

Also enriching the cast of the August 27 Concertone will be Samuele Bersani, Massimo Pericolo, Studio Murena and Kety Fusco. Super guests Marco Mengoni and Elodie. Together with the Popular Orchestra La Notte della Taranta, the great protagonist of the Concertone, there will be special moments, additional colors, Dardust points out: "a wind section and a string section that will take us to the Balkan world and beyond. A long journey into contamination in the sign of meeting and sharing." A balance between tradition and contemporaneity on which the master concertmaster has been working for some time: "tradition to stay alive needs to be contaminated without betraying tradition." Finally, Dardust did not hide how much the bond with Salento has strengthened in recent months. And after an emotional year of work he concludes, "it will be difficult, returning to Milan after this very strong experience."

21:00

CORPO DI BALLO LA NOTTE DELLA TARANTA

PIZZICA IN SCENA

21:30

ROCCO NIGRO

COME FECE COME NON FECE

con Antonio Castrignanò, Giorgio Distante, Redi Hasa, Egidio Marullo, Fabrizio Saccomanno, Giuseppe Spedicato

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ENZA PAGLIARA

FASINFASÒ

con Antongiulio Galeandro, Dario Muci, Gianluca Longo, Claudia De Ventura, Sofia Giordani Pagliara, Viola Centi

The traveling festival "La Notte della Taranta" makes a stop in Soleto on Aug. 23. Now in its 25th edition dedicated to the theme "The tradition of the new," Italy's largest traveling festival crosses 21 towns in Salento from Aug. 4 to 25, with 43 pizzica concerts, more than 400 artists and will lead to the long night of the Concertone on Aug. 27 in Melpignano (Le), with the maestro concertmaster DARDUST, in the midst of rehearsal activity these days at the Cinema of Calimera together with the Orchestra of the Notte della Taranta.

After the extraordinary success recorded at the International Folk Dance Festival and at the Mediterranean Games in Algeria, Pizzica in Scena, the show of the Taranta Dance Corps with choreography by Mattia Politi, is also back: appointment at 9 p.m. in Piazza Osanna in Soleto. The engaging and explosive choreographies are mounted on songs from the record produced by the Notte della Taranta Foundation in 2018. On stage: Serena Pellegrino, Michaela Coluccia, Lucia Scarabino, Veronica Mele, Cristina Frassanito, Stefano Campagna, Fabrizio Nigro, Andrea Caracuta and Marco Martano.

At 9:30 p.m. the music continues with Rocco Nigro with "Come fece come non fece" Favole salentine, a concert performance that stages through voices, music and live painting a collection of folk tales, recorded and transcribed by Luigi Chiriatti in the book of the same name published by Kurumuny edizioni. The voices of Fabrizio Saccomanno and Antonio Castrignanò, accompanied by the music curated by Rocco Nigro and played together with Redi Hasa on cello, Giorgio Distante on trumpet and Giuseppe Spedicato on bass, tell and sing the atmospheres of villages, smells ancient humble houses or exotic scents of sumptuous castles. Egidio Marullo's brushes evoke distant images, in time and space, of princes and princesses living and reliving among twisted olive trees and thorny prickly pears. Behind each fairy tale is the wrinkled face of an old man who was a child, his breathy voice and the gestures of his gnarled hands telling true stories disguised as fairy tales. The fables were recorded directly from the living voice of the storytellers in Salento dialect and were transcribed into Italian.

Next, the show continues with Enza Pagliara in Fasinfasò. A return to living music, to the pulse that becomes rhythm, to the body that becomes dance. From pizzica to serenades, from stornelli to stisa songs, Fasinfasò, is a concert performance, in which Enza interprets the classics of Salento folk songs, accompanied by musicians who have always been with her and who have arranged and written songs with her. Enza Pagliara will perform with Gianluca Longo, Antongiulio Galeandro, Dario Muci, Claudia De Ventura, Emanuele Coluccia, and Sofia Giordani Pagliara.

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Next stops:

AUG. 22 MARTIGNANO PIAZZA DELLA REPUBBLICA

21:00 Briganti Di Terra d'Otranto

To follow Popular Orchestra La Notte Della Taranta.

AUGUST 23 SOLETO PIAZZA OSANNA

21:00 Corpo Di Ballo La Notte Della Taranta - Pizzica In Scena

21:30 Rocco Nigro "Come fece come non fece" with Antonio Castrignanò, Giorgio Distante, Redi Hasa, Egidio Marullo, Fabrizio Saccomanno, Giuseppe Spedicato

To follow Enza Pagliara - Fasinfasò with Antongiulio Galeandro, Dario Muci, Gianluca Longo, Claudia De Ventura, Sofia Giordani Pagliara, Viola Centi.

AUG. 24 STERNATIA PIAZZA UMBERTO I

19:00 Laboratorio Di Pizzica

21:00 Unzapzap Bif Band

To follow Cgs - Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino.

AUG. 25 MARTANO LARGO PRIMO MAGGIO

21:00 Taranters

To follow Nui...Nisciunu

Greek Harmony

Stella Grande

Concertone: Aug. 27 in Melpignano - FREE ENTRANCE

The Itinerant Festival is a project of Fondazione Notte della Taranta supported by Regione Puglia, Pugliapromozione, Grecìa salentina, Istituto Diego Carpitella.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1etZhAHKKoQpHfZdzZe9nf4rz6ixtaC6X?usp=sharing here you will find more photos from previous Itinerant Festivals

Main Sponsor: DMJ Mercedes di Maurizio De Mariani

Partners: ACQUA ORSINI, OFFICINA PAAR,

Social Partners: FRATRES, INTEGRATION.

Official Concert Carrier: SOUTH EAST RAILWAYS

Technical partners: BUSFORFUN, CARRA, FASSI.

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21:00

I TRILLANTI

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KALASCIMA

The traveling festival "La Notte della Taranta" on August 21 stops in Calimera in the market area. Now in its 25th edition dedicated to the theme "The tradition of the new," Italy's largest traveling festival crosses 21 towns in Salento from Aug. 4 to 25, with 43 pizzica concerts, more than 400 artists and will lead up to the long night of the Concertone on Aug. 27 in Melpignano (Le), with the maestro concertmaster DARDUST, in full rehearsal activity these days at the Cinema of Calimera together with the Orchestra della Notte della Taranta for the unmissable appointment with the Concertone on Aug. 27, which returns to embrace the public.

At 9 p.m. it starts with the music of I Trillanti. They were born in 2013 to sing loudly in the squares, in the streets, the stornelli and songs of Ciociaria, an area from which the group comes. The group defines itself as a project that travels on two parallel tracks, both anchored to the roots of the native territory, but with peculiarities that at the same time differentiate them. On the one hand, the road of research and recovery of sources to guard, preserve and bring to light - through innovative arrangements wrapped in a cloak of boldness - traditional songs known in the past only to a few. On the other, novelty and creation: singing the contemporary world through original pieces and by means of instruments, sounds, and dances of the past cohesive with those of the present. It speaks of a work of primarily cultural importance, thus of the people, giving and receiving in return the dignity of the intangible choreographic and musical beauties of Lazio and central and southern Italy. Composing the group are Mattia Dell'Uomo, drums, percussion and vocals; Simone Frezza, accordion, accordion and vocals; Elisabetta Rossi, vocals; Valerio Frezza, classical and battente guitars, bouzouki and mandolin; Pierpaolo Rossi, viola and violin; and Alessandro Magnante, bass and transverse flute.

Next on the festival stage comes the music of Kalàscima. A group of musicians who grew up together playing and singing the hypnotic melodies and rhythms of the magical ritual linked to tarantismo, they reinvent the tradition with a mix achieved by mixing massive doses of electronics and lysergic beats with original melodies and the folk atmospheres of their origins. Salento dialect, Grico and English language create an imaginary bridge between Apulian music and the international scene. Kalàscima's live set is energetic and powerful and embraces typically traditional and rare instruments (bagpipes, ciaramella, launeddas, tambourine, accordion, irish bouzouki) and modern instruments (laptops, loop machines and synthesizers) for a completely original sound that, while remaining tied to tradition, opens up with an international, contemporary and urban breath. The group is composed of Federico Laganà, frame drums, percussion and vocals; Massimiliano de Marco, guitar, bouzouki and vocals; Luca Buccarella, accordion and vocals; Aldo Lezza, bagpipes, electroneddas and flutes; Michele D'Elia, drums and live electronics; and Giovanni Chirico, baritone sax.

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Next stops:

AUG. 22 MARTIGNANO PIAZZA DELLA REPUBBLICA

21:00 Briganti Di Terra d'Otranto

To follow Popular Orchestra La Notte Della Taranta.

AUGUST 23 SOLETO PIAZZA OSANNA

21:00 Corpo Di Ballo La Notte Della Taranta - Pizzica In Scena

21:30 Rocco Nigro "Come fece come non fece" with Antonio Castrignanò, Giorgio Distante, Redi Hasa, Egidio Marullo, Fabrizio Saccomanno, Giuseppe Spedicato

To follow Enza Pagliara - Fasinfasò with Antongiulio Galeandro, Dario Muci, Gianluca Longo, Claudia De Ventura, Sofia Giordani Pagliara, Viola Centi.

AUG. 24 STERNATIA PIAZZA UMBERTO I

19:00 Laboratorio Di Pizzica

21:00 Unzapzap Bif Band

To follow Cgs - Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino.

AUG. 25 MARTANO LARGO PRIMO MAGGIO

21:00 Taranters

To follow Nui...Nisciunu

Greek Harmony

Stella Grande

Concertone: Aug. 27 in Melpignano - FREE ENTRANCE

The Itinerant Festival is a project of Fondazione Notte della Taranta supported by Regione Puglia, Pugliapromozione, Grecìa salentina, Istituto Diego Carpitella.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1etZhAHKKoQpHfZdzZe9nf4rz6ixtaC6X?usp=sharing here you will find more photos from previous Itinerant Festivals

Main Sponsor: DMJ Mercedes di Maurizio De Mariani

Partners: ACQUA ORSINI, OFFICINA PAAR,

Social Partners: FRATRES, INTEGRATION.

Official Concert Carrier: SOUTH EAST RAILWAYS

Technical partners: BUSFORFUN, CARRA, FASSI.

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AUGUST 27 - MELPIGNANO (LE)

On stage with international super guest STROMAE

singer-songwriter SAMUELE BERSANI and rapper MASSIMO PERICOLO

MARCO MENGONI and ELODIE super guests at the Notte della Taranta scheduled for Aug. 27 in Melpignano, Salento.

63 platinum records him, seventh consecutive #1 single on radio she, the Italian artists complete the super cast of the Concertone now in its 25th edition and directed by maestro Dardust.

Marco Mengoni, who performed this summer in the states at the San Siro and the Olimpico and will start touring again in the arenas from October 3, will perform one of the most beloved songs in Greek entitled "Klama" written by Franco Corlianò and dedicated to the theme of emigration, the feeling of those who see friends and family leaving for a distant land. Mengoni will sing in the minority language of Grecìa Salentina to highlight the beauty of the verses well known on the other Greek shore of the Mediterranean Sea.

Instead, it will be the "Pizzica di San Vito" that will give the audience of two hundred thousand the explosive performance of Elodie in the guise not only of singer but also of dancer together with the Corpo di Ballo della Taranta directed by Irma di Paola. The pop star, beloved for her versatility, who will land at the Venice "Film Festival" starring in Apulian director Pippo Mezzapesa's gangster movie "Ti Mangio il cuore," returns to Salento, a land to which she is very attached, to win over the Taranta audience.

Mengoni and Elodie will be on stage in Melpignano with international guest Stromae, Italian singer-songwriter Samuele Bersani and rapper Massimo Pericolo.

Concertone 2022 will take a journey through the best-loved hits of the two hundred thousand pizzicati expected in the square: 30 songs from the Salento folk tradition arranged in a contemporary key by master concertmaster Dardust including L'acqua de la funtana, Aria Caddhipulina, Damme nu ricciu, the powerful pizziches of San Vito, Aradeo, Ostuni, Tochiarolo, Cordella, the songs in Grico Klama, Aremu, Calinitta and in arbëreshë Ec.

Also Taranta di Lizzano, Rirollalla, Fuecu and a tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini with the text from the Italian intellectual's research "Canzoniere Italiano."

In the year of the 'triplete' between the gold disc obtained for the single 'No stress' and two more platinum discs for the album 'Marco Mengoni Live' and the single 'Mi fiderò,' the unmistakable voice of Marco Mengoni will therefore be another great protagonist of the 25th edition of La Notte della Taranta. The long night in Melpignano dedicated to the music of tradition will be enhanced by the presence of the artist who often, in his interviews, recalls the attachment, the bond with his roots, with his grandfather Sestilio: an ancient man, without knots. Staggering numbers for Mengoni, one of the most beloved and well-known artists even abroad: over 1.6 billion audio video streams, each of his songs is bound to become a hit. And it is not surprising that Dardust entrusted the singer-songwriter, the green soul of music, with a song in Grico.

It was also a golden year for Elodie, who reached a new record: the song "Tribale," certified Disco d'Oro and a super hit of this hot summer, is the Roman singer's seventh consecutive single to reach the top of the EarOne chart. The artist who has racked up a string of hits, including Bagno a mezzanotte, (double platinum) which topped the radio airplay chart for four weeks, in 2021 was the co-host of the second night of the 71st edition of the Sanremo Festival during which she won everyone over and consolidated her figure as a complete artist, capable of making entertainment not only through music. Godmother of Roma Pride 2022, a pop star in the firmament of Italian music, Elodie accepted the invitation of the maestro concertmaster and the new challenge of singing in Salento dialect.

The lyrics chosen by Dardust will also be a dancing journey entrusted to choreographer Irma Di Paola and 16 dancers. The set design, signed by Massimo Calzavara, encapsulates the message of the 2022 edition: tradition embraces contemporary language by introducing futurist visions thanks to the collaboration with Filippo Rossi professional show designer and Mauro Bubbico the anthropologist of Italian design.

Concertone La Notte della Taranta is a cultural project of musical and choreographic research produced by Fondazione La Notte della Taranta with the support of Regione Puglia, Puglia Promozione, Unione dei Comuni della Grecìa salentina, and Istituto Diego Carpitella.

Thanks to a collaboration with Acquedotto Pugliese, the Concertone area will be served by public water distribution. The Festival's mobility is zero-emission thanks to the technical support of DMJ Gruppo De Mariani, which provided the electric cars.

Taranta Solidale project continues, which in 2015 together with Granarolo distributed basic necessities for migrants hosted by Caritas of Otranto, in 2016 allowed the reconstruction of the Music School in Amatrice destroyed by the earthquake, in 2017 helped Unicef, in 2018 with Intesa Sanpaolo it purchased a platform needed by the Pediatric Oncohematology Department of the Vito Fazzi Hospital in Lecce, in 2019 again with Intesa Sanpaolo and Legambiente it allocated with RigeniAmo la Natura funds for the enhancement of 4 natural oases in southern Italy: Baia di Torre Squillace in Puglia, Dune di Sovereto in Isola Capo Rizzuto, the Oasi dei Variconi in Castelvolturno, and Costa Ionica Foce Cavone in Pisticci. In 2022 Taranta Solidale in collaboration with the Olivami Association will create the Parco della Taranta: 1,500 new olive trees in the countryside of Carpignano Salentino to help rebuild the Salento landscape. In the Taranta Garden, which can be visited, all the trees will have the names of the Festival and Concertone guest artists.

How to get to the Concertone:

By train: Ferrovie Sud Est has activated a special train service to reach Melpignano and comfortably find return trips until dawn: Notte della Taranta 2022 (fseonline.it)

By bus: BusFor Fun from major Italian cities https://busforfun.com/articolo/la-notte-della-taranta

With your own vehicle you will be able to reserve parking in Melpignano https://lanottedellataranta.parkforfun.com/

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Main Sponsor: DMJ Gruppo De Mariani

Sponsor: Acqua Orsini

Official Carrier: Ferrovie Sud Est

Travel Partners: BusForFun and ParkForFun

Taranta solidarity: Parco degli Ulivi della Taranta in collaboration with Ass. Olivami

21:00

PARAFONÈ

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LI STRITTULI - COMPAGNIA DI MUSICA POPOLARE SALENTINA 

The traveling festival "La Notte della Taranta" makes a stop in Cutrofiano on August 20 in Piazza Municipio. Now in its 25th edition dedicated to the theme "The tradition of the new," Italy's largest traveling festival crosses 21 towns in Salento from Aug. 4 to 25, with 43 pizzica concerts, more than 400 artists and will lead up to the long night of the Concertone on Aug. 27 in Melpignano (Le), with the maestro concertmaster DARDUST, in the midst of rehearsal activity these days at the Cinema di Calimera together with the Orchestra della Notte della Taranta. The sound journey between memory and vision of Concertone 2022 will be broadcast on RAI 1, Thursday, Sept. 1 at 11:15 p.m.

The evening starts at 9 p.m. with the musical collective Parafoné. In activity for 15 years, it represents one of the most active and innovative bands in southern Italy that is entering the panorama of new Italian world music. The recovery and re-proposal of traditional Calabrian music project the group to the rediscovery of "sound brotherhoods" beyond territorial borders, going back to the ties with the history of a region as full of contaminations as Calabria. The continuous search for sounds and forms and the experimentation between past and future, gives birth to a "proper" expressive language, involving both new generations and old players and singers, who recognize a common matrix between tradition and innovation. A sound, that of Parafoné, which projects a rich sonic treasure of the past to the ever pressing musical future. The group consists of: Angelo Pisani, ethnic woodwinds; Bruno Tassone vocals and beats; Domenico Tino, strings and bouzouki; Totò Codispoti, frame drums and organ; Omar Remi, bass; Antonio La Rosa, percussion; and Sergio Schiavone, strings.

This will be followed by the music of Li Strittuli - Compagnia di Musica Popolare Salentina. "Li Strittuli," were born in the summer of 1996, using typical instruments such as the violin, accordion, accordion, guitar and the Salentine frame drum to then carry out a search for songs from the Brindisi area, in their hometown of San Pancrazio Salentino where they become intimate with the local elders who make their entire musical repertoire available. From this long search, some of the most beautiful songs are extrapolated, which are still part of the proposal of "Li Strittuli," a repertoire of the Salento tradition, free of contamination. The group's main objective is to re-propose a journey through Salento folk music, made up of pizzica pizzica, pizzica tarantata, love stornelli, work and protest songs. The members of the group are: Giorgio D'Aria, tambourine and voice; Vincenzo Mancini, mandolin and voice; Giovanni Palma, voice and guitar; Antonio Melegari voice and accordion; Giulia Piccinni, voice and violin.

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AUG. 21 CALIMERA MARKET AREA

21:00 I Trillanti

To follow Kalascima

AUGUST 22 MARTIGNANO PIAZZA DELLA REPUBBLICA

21:00 Briganti Di Terra D'otranto

To follow Popular Orchestra La Notte Della Taranta

AUGUST 23 SOLETO PIAZZA OSANNA

21:00 Corpo Di Ballo La Notte Della Taranta - Pizzica In Scena

21:30 Rocco Nigro "Come fece come non fece" with Antonio Castrignanò, Giorgio Distante, Redi Hasa, Egidio Marullo, Fabrizio Saccomanno, Giuseppe Spedicato

To follow Enza Pagliara - Fasinfasò with Antongiulio Galeandro, Dario Muci, Gianluca Longo, Claudia De Ventura, Sofia Giordani Pagliara, Viola Centi.

AUG. 24 STERNATIA PIAZZA UMBERTO I

19:00 Laboratorio Di Pizzica

21:00 Unzapzap Bif Band

To follow Cgs - Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino.

AUG. 25 MARTANO LARGO PRIMO MAGGIO

21:00 Taranters

To follow Nui...Nisciunu

Greek Harmony

Stella Grande

Concertone: Aug. 27 in Melpignano - FREE ENTRANCE

The Itinerant Festival is a project of Fondazione Notte della Taranta supported by Regione Puglia, Pugliapromozione, Grecìa salentina, Istituto Diego Carpitella.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1etZhAHKKoQpHfZdzZe9nf4rz6ixtaC6X?usp=sharing here you will find more photos from previous Itinerant Festivals

Main Sponsor: DMJ Mercedes of Maurizio De Mariani

Partners: ACQUA ORSINI, OFFICINA PAAR,

Social Partners: FRATRES, INTEGRATION.

Official Concert Carrier: SOUTH EAST RAILWAYS

Technical partners: BUSFORFUN, CARRA, FASSI.

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Conductor Valeriano Chiaravalle, a veteran of the Sanremo kermesse, one of the greatest composers for music on TV is in Salento working in the rehearsal room with the seven voices of La Notte della Taranta Consuelo Alfieri, Alessandra Caiulo, Stefania Morciano, Enza Pagliara, Antonio Amato, Salvatore Cavallo Galeanda, Giancarlo Paglialunga. The well-known conductor in his resume also directed extraordinary hits such as "Che sia benedetta," the song Monotòna by Elio e le Storie Tese, just to name a few.

"We are checking and organizing the harmonizations of the choral part. A work of balance to tune the voices in the best way, explains maestro Chiaravalle who adds: it will be a night of celebration, an explosion of joy in which tradition and innovation will meet through electronics. And this will be a most interesting meeting point that the voices of the folk tradition will make even more authentic."

And while the voices are preparing under the guidance of maestro Chiaravalle at the Sud Est studio in Guagnano, the members of the Popular Orchestra La Notte Popolare La notte della Taranta continue to rehearse the 35 songs that will be offered at the August 27 Concertone at the Elio cinema in Calimera. The Popular Orchestra La Notte della Taranta, the great protagonist of the long music is composed of the tambourine singers and musicians Giuseppe Astore (violin), Nico Berardi (woodwinds), Valerio Combass Bruno (bass), Alessandro Chiga (tambourine), Roberto Chiga (tambourine), Leonardo Cordella (accordion), Antonio Dema De Mariani (drums), Carlo De Pascali (tambourine), Roberto Gemma (accordion), Peppo Grassi (mandolin), , Gianluca Longo (mandola), Gioele Nuzzo (didgeridoo and tambourine) Alessandro Monteduro (percussion), Attilio Turrisi (beating guitar).

The orchestra, on the concert stage conducted by concertmaster Dardust will be joined by a wind section and a string section.

The wind section consists of Mattia Dalla Pozza (saxophone), Francesco Minutello (trumpet), Federico Pierantoni (trombone) and Raul Moretto (tuba), musicians who have played on various tours permanently with the likes of Jovanotti, Mengoni, Giorgia, Daniele Silvestri, Calibro 35. Also collaborating discographically on totally different projects from experimental jazz to classical with many internationally renowned musicians. Also in the pop genre with Elisa, Tommaso Paradiso, Biagio Antonacci, Irene Grandi, Negrita, Giuliano Palma and Samuel of Subsonica.

The level of professionals in the string section was also very high: Caterina Coco (violin), Elisa Cavalazzi (violin), Matteo Lipari (viola), Simone Giorgini (violin) and Simone Sitta (cello).

And also on the stage set up in the space in front of the former Agostiani Convent for the duration of the entire concert will be Vanni Casagrande (synth and percussion) and Marcello Piccinini (percussion). Vanni Casagrande (synth and percussion), is a multi-instrumentalist who has major collaborations to his credit. It also bears his signature along with that of Dardust, the song "lions in the sun" by THE KOLORS. Marcello Piccinini is one of the best known drummers in Italy. He boasts numerous collaborations with national and international artists, including the very master concertmaster Dardust. Just with him in one of the previous editions of Sanremo he was the protagonist of a fantastic performance on percussion.

21:00

I CALANTI

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ALLA BUA

The tour of the traveling festival "La Notte della Taranta" continues, stopping in Castrignano De' Greci on August 19. Now in its 25th edition dedicated to the theme "The tradition of the new," Italy's largest traveling festival crosses, from Aug. 4 to 25, 21 towns in Salento, with 43 pizzica concerts, more than 400 artists and will lead up to the long night of the Concertone on Aug. 27 in Melpignano (Le), with the maestro concertmaster DARDUST, in the midst of rehearsal activity these days at the Cinema of Calimera together with the Orchestra of the Notte della Taranta. The sound journey between memory and vision of Concertone 2022 will be broadcast on RAI 1, Thursday, Sept. 1 at 11:15 p.m.

At 9 p.m. the evening kicks off with the music of I Calanti, a group of five young musicians and a couple of dancers almost all belonging to the Colitti Family of Ugento, who renew a family musical tradition in which the passion for the culture and folk traditions of Salento is handed down from generation to generation. The group was founded with the intention of preserving and spreading the cultural heritage of the Colitti family and in 2018 celebrated 20' years of activity. Over the years they have released 5 record works including a live CD/DVD. The members of the group are: Daniele Colitti, vocals, tambourine, harmonica, classical rhythm guitar; Mirco Colitti, vocals, tambourine, tammorra, castanets; Michele Costantini, vocals, accordion; Francesco Arnesano, violin; Federico De Pascali, mandola and mandolin; Fabrizio Ricchiello, cupa cupa, tambourine, mute violin, dance; Anna Maria Manni and Emanuela Capone, tambourine and dance.

This will be followed by a performance by the group Alla Bua, on the music scene for 30 years, born from the most traditional experiences of Salento's musical culture. From the patrols of the historic feast of San Rocco in Torrepaduli, to the itinerant nights of singing in Santu Lazzaru, to the typical festivities in the courtyards. Alla Bua, which in Grico means alternative medicine, or other cure, inspires the group's soul and sound. The cure: in the past against the poisonous bite of the legendary taranta, today against the flatness of modern society. A cure to the sound of pizzica-pizzica, a strong, warm and liberating dance. In recent years the repertoire has been enriched with original songs composed by the authors themselves. The members of the group come from various towns in Salento and they all have the common consciousness of feeling the legacy of popular music as their own with the great desire to play it, pass it on and popularize it, but also to evolve it in a totally "spontaneous" and creatively influenced by their various musical roots. The group consists of: Irene Toma, voice and oboe; Gigi Toma, tambourine and voice; Dario Marti, guitar and voice; Fiore Maggiulli, tambourine and voice; Emanuele Massafra, violin; Francesco Coluccia, accordion; Gianni Dell'Anna, sound engineer.

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Next stops:

AUG. 20 CUTROFIANO PIAZZA MUNICIPIO

21:00 Paraphoné

To follow Li Strittuli - Compagnia di Musica Popolare Salentina

AUG. 21 CALIMERA MARKET AREA

21:00 I Trillanti

To follow Kalascima

AUG. 22 MARTIGNANO PIAZZA DELLA REPUBBLICA

21:00 Briganti Di Terra D'otranto

To follow Popular Orchestra La Notte Della Taranta

AUGUST 23 SOLETO PIAZZA OSANNA

21:00 Corpo Di Ballo La Notte Della Taranta - Pizzica In Scena

21:30 Rocco Nigro "Come fece come non fece" with Antonio Castrignanò, Giorgio Distante, Redi Hasa, Egidio Marullo, Fabrizio Saccomanno, Giuseppe Spedicato

To follow Enza Pagliara - Fasinfasò with Antongiulio Galeandro, Dario Muci, Gianluca Longo, Claudia De Ventura, Sofia Giordani Pagliara, Viola Centi.

AUG. 24 STERNATIA PIAZZA UMBERTO I

19:00 Laboratorio Di Pizzica

21:00 Unzapzap Bif Band

To follow Cgs - Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino.

AUG. 25 MARTANO LARGO PRIMO MAGGIO

21:00 Taranters

To follow Nui...Nisciunu

Greek Harmony

Stella Grande

Concertone: Aug. 27 in Melpignano - FREE ENTRANCE

The Itinerant Festival is a project of Fondazione Notte della Taranta supported by Regione Puglia, Pugliapromozione, Grecìa salentina, Istituto Diego Carpitella.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1etZhAHKKoQpHfZdzZe9nf4rz6ixtaC6X?usp=sharing here you will find more photos from previous Itinerant Festivals

Main Sponsor: DMJ Mercedes of Maurizio De Mariani

Partners: ACQUA ORSINI, OFFICINA PAAR,

Social Partners: FRATRES, INTEGRATION.

Official Concert Carrier: SOUTH EAST RAILWAYS

Technical partners: BUSFORFUN, CARRA, FASSI.

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There will be rapper Massimo Pericolo on stage at the Notte della Taranta for the 25th edition of the Concertone scheduled for Aug. 27 in Melpignano, Salento.

Followed by the very young and considered one of the new "Big Thing" of the Italian music scene, Pericolo, who has already collaborated in the past with maestro concertmaster Dardust, brings his bare and forthright writing before the audience of two hundred thousand expected on the square of the former Convento degli Agostiniani. "For me, it is essential to tell what I know: knowledge is experience, it means that in a creative process not only the mind, representation, but the whole sensitive dimension of an individual's existence is involved," says Massimo Pericolo in The Lord of the Woods, his first book released by Rizzoli. A photographic autobiography in which the rapper recounts the difficult period of childhood in the province of Varese, the discovery of literature and the arrival of success.

After collaborations with Fabri Fibra in "Star Wars" (Platinum Record) in 2020 Massimo Pericolo collaborated with many artists from the Italian scene, Mahmood, Achille Lauro, Tedua, Jake La Furia, Emis Killa, Lazza, Madame, Speranza, Chicoria, Tony Effe and Touché. In 2021 with a new single "Bugie" he marks his entry on the Sony Music Italy label and anticipates "Solo Tutto," his second album with collaborations with Salmo, Madame, JLord and Venerus released on March 26 finishing at No. 1 on the FIMI chart of best-selling albums in Italy and certified Platinum Record. On September 9, Massimo Pericolo was honored at the Arena di Verona for the Seat Music Awards with the song "Bugie," taken from his latest album, and the featuring "L'ultima volta," contained within the album by Emis Killa and Jake la Furia. The artist thus confirms himself again with his innate stage presence capturing the attention of the spectators present at the concert and beyond the screen.

With the announcement of international guest STROMAE and Italian singer-songwriter SAMUELE BERSANI, the cast of the Notte della Taranta 25, is enriched by the presence of PERICOLO, highlighting, once again, how the Concertone is a multitude of languages and cultures marked by the rhythm of the pizzica. A choice that stems from reading Pericolo's words from his book, "Imagining that we believe in something keeps us hooked on life. It is when the truth of nothingness resurfaces that you feel that something resembling the feeling of plummeting into the void that is depression. Depression comes when you remember that you are fooling yourself. I decide to hang in there, make a pact with life and slowly begin to realize how much the outcome of an endeavor depends on me, on my perception." [...] "The concert, for example, is a moment of exaltation, of asceticism, if you do it well it amplifies your state of mind of well-being, if you do it badly on the contrary it increases the feeling of discomfort."

After Clementino in 2018, Guè Pequeno 2019 and Madame in 2021, also in 2022 La Notte della Taranta will engage the audience of the very young with Pericolo choosing its lyrics, "In all the little towns of the world I'm in my place and I pray to the lord of the woods. And if you leave, you leave just to feel alive. But you never forget where you were a child."

 In the rehearsal room set up in Calimera's Cinema Elio, the Orchestra Popolare continues its musical quest to enchant the Melpignano audience by moving from traditional pizziches to the public's most beloved ballads with an in-depth look at Pier Paolo Pasolini's Canzoniere Italiano and a tribute to Vito Nigro the cantor of Villa Castelli and Cordella's pizzica. Orchestra singers Enza Pagliara, Antonio Amato, Stefania Morciano, Giancarlo Paglialunga, Alessandra Caiulo, Salvatore Galeanda and Consuelo Alfieri are engaged in a journey of harmonizing voices with noted composer and conductor Valeriano Chiaravalle. The texts chosen by Dardust for the 25th edition will also be a dancing journey entrusted to choreographer Irma Di Paola and 16 dancers. The set design, signed by Massimo Calzavara, encapsulates the message of the 2022 edition: tradition embraces contemporary language by introducing futurist visions thanks to the collaboration with Filippo Rossi professional show designer and Mauro Bubbico the anthropologist of Italian design.

Concertone La Notte della Taranta is a cultural project of musical and choreographic research produced by Fondazione La Notte della Taranta with the support of Regione Puglia, Puglia Promozione, Unione dei Comuni della Grecìa salentina, and Istituto Diego Carpitella.

Thanks to a collaboration with Acquedotto Pugliese, the Concertone area will be served by public water distribution. The Festival's mobility is zero-emission thanks to the technical support of DMJ Gruppo De Mariani, which provided the electric cars.

Taranta Solidale project continues, which in 2015 together with Granarolo distributed basic necessities for migrants hosted by the Caritas of Otranto, in 2016 enabled the reconstruction of the Music School in Amatrice destroyed by the earthquake, in 2017 helped Unicef, in 2018 with Intesa Sanpaolo it purchased a platform needed by the Pediatric Oncohematology Department of the Vito Fazzi Hospital in Lecce, in 2019 again with Intesa Sanpaolo and Legambiente it allocated with RigeniAmo la Natura funds for the enhancement of 4 natural oases in southern Italy: Baia di Torre Squillace in Puglia, Dune di Sovereto in Isola Capo Rizzuto, the Oasi dei Variconi in Castelvolturno, and Costa Ionica Foce Cavone in Pisticci.

In 2022 Taranta Solidale in collaboration with the Olivami Association will create the Taranta Park: 1,500 new olive trees in the countryside of Carpignano Salentino to help rebuild the Salento landscape. In the Parco della Taranta that can be visited, all the trees will have the names of the guest artists of Festival and Concertone.

How to get to the Concertone:

By train: Ferrovie Sud Est has activated special train service to reach Melpignano and comfortably find return rides until dawn: Notte della Taranta 2022 (fseonline.it)

By bus: BusFor Fun from major Italian cities https://busforfun.com/articolo/la-notte-della-taranta

With your own vehicle you will be able to reserve parking in Melpignano https://lanottedellataranta.parkforfun.com/

#taranta25 #WeAreinPuglia

Main Sponsor: DMJ Gruppo De Mariani

Sponsor: Acqua Orsini

Official Carrier: Ferrovie Sud Est

Travel Partners: BusForFun and ParkForFun

Taranta solidarity: Parco degli Ulivi della Taranta in collaboration with Ass. Olivami

21:00

PINO INGROSSO 

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ORCHESTRA POPOLARE LA NOTTE DELLA TARANTA

The tour of the traveling festival "La Notte della Taranta," which stops in Galatina on Aug. 18, continues. Now in its 25th edition dedicated to the theme "The tradition of the new," Italy's largest traveling festival crosses 21 municipalities of Salento from August 4 to 25, with 43 pizzica concerts, more than 400 artists and will lead to the long night of the Concertone on August 27 in Melpignano (Le), with the maestro concertatore DARDUST, in the midst of rehearsal activity these days at the Cinema of Calimera together with the Orchestra of the Notte della Taranta. The sound journey between memory and vision of Concertone 2022 will be broadcast on RAI 1, Thursday, Sept. 1 at 11:15 p.m.

The evening kicks off at 9 p.m. with "Notes of a Journey," a musical performance by and with Pino Ingrosso, the lead vocalist of Oscar winner Nicola Piovani. It is a musical journey, a light and brilliant tale of a past that still belongs to us; a journey that punctuates, with lightness and a touch of nostalgia, the manners, traditions, customs and traditions of Southern Italy, relived through childhood memories, the stories of the elderly, typical sounds, colors, sounds and scents capable of evoking an ancestral civilization common not only to the South of Italy, but to all the Souths of the world. The music that will embellish the show, is a carousel of Mediterranean sounds. Most of the songs in the show were composed by Pino Ingrosso with the peculiarity of being written in Salento dialect and Italian. Pino Ingrosso (vocals, acoustic guitar and ukulele) will be joined on stage by: Francesco De Siena, keyboards and backing vocals; Dario Cota, accordion and keyboards; Umberto Malagnino, bass guitar; Vito De Lorenzi, drums and drums; Alessandro Chiga, percussion; and Daniela Guercia, reciting voice, backing vocals, percussive colors, tres cubano.

Next, the music continues with the Orchestra Popolare Notte della Taranta is the Salento folk music group that changed the history of pizzica by exporting it to the world. Founded in 2004 within the Melpignano Concertone, it is now the undisputed leader in the world music scene. Tradition and constant innovation, unique and unmistakable sound, the Orchestra is characterized by the multitude of fascinating sound paths born from the collaborations with the likes of Joe Zawinul, Stewart Copeland of the Police, Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music, Salif Keita, LP, Concha Buika, Gregory Porter and again Ludovico Einaudi, Lucio Dalla, Francesco De Gregori, Roberto Vecchioni, Ligabue and with the different musical genres from jazz to rock, from blues to electronic, from classical to rap. In touring abroad, the Popular Orchestra sets the squares of the world ablaze and represents Italian Popular Culture in the most prestigious international contexts from Argentina to Kuwait, from Chile to Saudi Arabia, from the United States to China. In the past year, the Orchestra has been featured at New Year's Eve at Expo Dubai, Peter Gabriel's Womad Chile, and the Mediterranean Games in Oran, Algeria.
Every year the Orchestra, acclaimed by the public and critics, leads the Concertone di Melpignano, which in the last quarter century has fostered the birth of new groups and new festivals related to pizzica by promoting all activities related to the recovery and revival of popular traditions. The set of songs and dances proposed by the Orchestra during 25 years of the Notte della Taranta today represent a speaking archive of excellence. A fundamental archive, a work of research and study of popular culture, which has formed the basis of everything that the groups, born thanks to the work of promoting the Notte della Taranta, can tell the world today. Numerous musicians and singers have been formed within the Orchestra and today they are the protagonists of a personal journey and transformed traditional songs into hits known to the general public such as: Aria Caddhipulina, Santu Paulu, Calinitta, Aremu, Lule Lule, Lu ruciu de lu mare, L'acqua de la funtana, the extraordinary pizziches of Torchiarolo, Aradeo, of Lizzano, Copertino, Cordella, of Stifani, San Vito.
The band is now composed of singers Enza Pagliara, Stefania Morciano, Alessandra Caiulo, Consuelo Alfieri, Giancarlo Paglialunga, Antonio Amato, Salvatore Cavallo Galeanda and musicians Gianluca Longo (mandola), Peppo Grassi (mandolin), Attilio Turrisi (chitarra battente), Giuseppe Astore (violin) Roberto Chiga, Alessandro Chiga, Carlo Canaglia De Pascali (tamburello salentino), Roberto Gemma (bellows), Nico Berardi (wind instruments), Leonardo Cordella (accordion), Alessandro Monteduro (percussion), Antonio Marra (drums), Valerio Combass Bruno (bass).

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Next stops: 

AUGUST 19 CASTRIGNANO DE' GRECI - PALAZZO DE GUALTIERIS

21:00 I Calanti

To follow Alla Bua

AUGUST 20 CUTROFIANO - PIAZZA MUNICIPIO

21:00 Parafonè

To follow Li Strittuli - Compagnia di Musica Popolare Salentina

AUGUST 21 CALIMERA - AREA MERCATALE

21:00 I Trillanti

To follow Kalascima

AUGUST 22 MARTIGNANO - PIAZZA DELLA REPUBBLICA

21:00 Briganti Di Terra D'otranto

To follow Orchestra Popolare La Notte Della Taranta

AUGUST 23 SOLETO - PIAZZA OSANNA

21:00 Corpo Di Ballo La Notte Della Taranta - Pizzica In Scena

21:30 Rocco Nigro "Come fece come non fece" with Antonio Castrignanò, Giorgio Distante, Redi Hasa, Egidio Marullo, Fabrizio Saccomanno, Giuseppe Spedicato

To follow Enza Pagliara - Fasinfasò with Antongiulio Galeandro, Dario Muci, Gianluca Longo, Claudia De Ventura, Sofia Giordani Pagliara, Viola Centi.

AUGUST 24 STERNATIA - PIAZZA UMBERTO I

19:00 Laboratorio Di Pizzica

21:00 Unzapzap Bif Band

To follow Cgs - Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino.

AUGUST 25 MARTANO - LARGO PRIMO MAGGIO

21:00 Taranters

To follow Nui...Nisciunu

Armonia Greca

Stella Grande

Concertone: August 27 in Melpignano: FREE ENTRANCE

The Itinerant Festival is a project of the Notte della Taranta Foundation supported by the Puglia Region, Pugliapromozione, Grecìa salentina and the Diego Carpitella Institute.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1etZhAHKKoQpHfZdzZe9nf4rz6ixtaC6X?usp=sharing here you will find more photos from previous Itinerant Festivals

Main Sponsor: DMJ Mercedes of Maurizio De Mariani

Partners: ACQUA ORSINI, OFFICINA PAAR,

Social Partners: FRATRES, INTEGRATION.

Official Concert Carrier: SOUTH EAST RAILWAYS

Technical partners: BUSFORFUN, CARRA FASSI.

Festival Notte della Taranta

#taranta25 #WeAreinPuglia

www.lanottedellataranta.it

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21:00

A SUD DI BELLA CIAO

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CRIAMU

The tour of the traveling festival "La Notte della Taranta" continues, stopping in Zollino on Aug. 17. Now in its 25th edition dedicated to the theme "The tradition of the new," Italy's largest traveling festival crosses 21 municipalities of Salento from Aug. 4 to 25, with 43 pizzica concerts, more than 400 artists and will lead to the long night of the Concertone on Aug. 27 in Melpignano (Le), with the maestro concertmaster DARDUST, in the midst of rehearsal activity these days at the Cinema of Calimera together with the Orchestra of the Notte della Taranta. The sound journey between memory and vision of Concertone 2022 will be broadcast on RAI 1, Thursday, Sept. 1 at 11:15 p.m.

The evening kicks off at 9 p.m. at the municipal villa with the music of A Sud di Bella Ciao. A great popular fresco, the story of the life and feelings of a people through a repertoire ranging from social and protest songs to love songs and dance, inspired by Dario Fo's Ci ragiono e canto from 1966. The album A sud di Bella Ciao is the natural follow-up to the first Bella Ciao, a successful 2014 project that took the 1964 revival of the historic show around the world. This time, as the title announces, the compass points decisively toward southern Italy, with the rhythms of tammurriata, ballo tondo and pizzica, with the melodies daughters of Mediterranean influences, and with poetry, more lyrical in the love songs and more raw in the songs of revolt. Riccardo Tesi (accordion, musical direction), Elena Ledda (vocals), Lucilla Galeazzi (vocals), Alessio Lega (vocals, guitar), Nando Citarella (vocals, tambourine, beating guitar), Maurizio Geri (vocals, guitar), Gigi Biolcati (percussion, vocals), Claudio Carboni (saxophone) guide the listener on a journey into the past that once again helps to understand and decipher our present. Thirteen songs that trace an ideal path that starts from the center of the Belpaese, crosses the south and arrives in Sardinia. "A Sud di Bella Ciao" just wants to tell a story that combines with magic and legend, where rituality awakens the peasant world, where sensuality is mixed with fatigue.

Next up is Criamu, the group that for more than 20 years has been conveying a message of recovery and respect for folk traditions while remaining wide-eyed about the even technological reality that surrounds us. Their melodic line is traced by the sound of mandolin strings the mandola and bouzucki and an accordion that interlock with a Mediterranean Salento sound ensemble made up of midi synthesizers electric percussion Salento tambureddhru and cupa cupa with a singing of two ancestral voices. Criamu's music keeps intact, powerful, pulsating and catalyzing intensities typical of archaic Salento folk music. Often with contemporary style arrangements well appreciated by a modern 'ear'; at other times in competent respect of ancient rhythms and melodies. The group consists of: DJ Aka Bellezza, programming; Valeria Giagnotti, accordion; Katia Giagnotti, voice and tambureddhru; Mino Cavallino, voice, tambureddhru and guitar.

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Next stops:

AUG. 18 GALATINA PIAZZA DANTE ALIGHERI

21:00 Pino Ingrosso

To follow Popular Orchestra La Notte Della Taranta

AUG. 19 CASTRIGNANO DE' GRECI PALAZZO DE GUALTIERIS

21:00 I Calanti

To follow Alla Bua

AUG. 20 CUTROFIANO PIAZZA MUNICIPIO

21:00 Paraphoné

To follow Li Strittuli - Compagnia di Musica Popolare Salentina

AUG. 21 CALIMERA MARKET AREA

21:00 I Trillanti

To follow Kalascima

AUG. 22 MARTIGNANO PIAZZA DELLA REPUBBLICA

21:00 Briganti Di Terra D'otranto

To follow Popular Orchestra La Notte Della Taranta

AUGUST 23 SOLETO PIAZZA OSANNA

21:00 Corpo Di Ballo La Notte Della Taranta - Pizzica In Scena

21:30 Rocco Nigro "Come fece come non fece" with Antonio Castrignanò, Giorgio Distante, Redi Hasa, Egidio Marullo, Fabrizio Saccomanno, Giuseppe Spedicato

To follow Enza Pagliara - Fasinfasò with Antongiulio Galeandro, Dario Muci, Gianluca Longo, Claudia De Ventura, Sofia Giordani Pagliara, Viola Centi.

AUG. 24 STERNATIA PIAZZA UMBERTO I

19:00 Laboratorio Di Pizzica

21:00 Unzapzap Bif Band

To follow Cgs - Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino.

AUG. 25 MARTANO LARGO PRIMO MAGGIO

21:00 Taranters

To follow Nui...Nisciunu

Greek Harmony

Stella Grande

Concertone: Aug. 27 in Melpignano - FREE ENTRANCE

The Itinerant Festival is a project of Fondazione Notte della Taranta supported by Regione Puglia, Pugliapromozione, Grecìa salentina, Istituto Diego Carpitella.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1etZhAHKKoQpHfZdzZe9nf4rz6ixtaC6X?usp=sharing here you will find more photos from previous Itinerant Festivals

Main Sponsor: DMJ Mercedes of Maurizio De Mariani

Partners: ACQUA ORSINI, GIORGIO CORVAGLIA, OFFICINA PAAR,

Social partners: FRATRES, L'INTEGRAZIONE.

Official Concert Carrier: FERROVIE SUD EST 

Technical partners: BUSFORFUN, CARRA, FASSI.

Festival Notte della Taranta.

#taranta25 #WeAreinPuglia

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21:00

PIETREVIVE DEL SALENTO

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SETTE BOCCHE

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MASCARIMIRÌ

On August 16, the traveling festival "La Notte della Taranta," makes a stop in Ugento. Now in its 25th edition dedicated to the theme "The tradition of the new," Italy's largest traveling festival crosses 21 towns in Salento from Aug. 4 to 25, with 43 pizzica concerts, more than 400 artists and will lead up to the long night of the Concertone on Aug. 27 in Melpignano (Le), with the maestro concertmaster DARDUST, in the midst of rehearsal activity these days at the Cinema of Calimera together with the Orchestra of the Notte della Taranta. The sound journey between memory and vision of Concertone 2022 will be broadcast on RAI 1, Thursday, Sept. 1 at 11:15 pm.

It starts at 9 p.m. with music by the Cultural Association Pietrevive del Salento - Workshop of Dramaturgy and Popular Music of Salento, which operates in Salento in the field of theatrical and musical activities and research and study on traditions and popular culture, established after the dissolution of the "Compagnia Popolare in re" which, for about 30 years, was present in the area with various works in prose and music written and directed by Tonino Papadia. Active courses in acting, tambourine and dance (Pizzica) that find the interest of many young people and several interventions are made in schools through the presentation of school projects on popular music and theater, traditions and local history. He recently released the CD Sole, which represents the epilogue of a vast concert activity carried out with the show "Colors of the Mediterranean." Currently, as a result of research done on songs and music, which go beyond pizzica and Salento, it has enriched its repertoire with new arrangements and especially with a new musical and narrative path with the show: When the sun danced the night. The components are: Tonino Papadia, narrator; Antonio Saracino, woodwinds; Antonella Rubino, singing; Angelo Gaglione, singing, drums and percussion; Francesco Longo, accordion; Vito Bellanova, double bass; Angelo Guarini, guitar and erhu; Daniele Errico, synth; Ofelia Corrado, dance.

The music continues with Le Sette Bocche, a band that shares the experience of folk music, with a completely personal interpretative key, very close to Nu Folk or, as Marcello Colasurdo defined them: "Etno Local." The group's musical project begins with ethnographic research on the origins of the culture of the area, in which each member expresses his or her own musical background, to give body to a show inspired by the music, songs and dances typical of popular culture. The group has performed at numerous events in Italy and abroad. After their recording debut in 2014 with the album "Simm' sett 'ott e nuje" followed, in 2018, the second Live CD encompassing the experiences of the grueling summer and winter tours: #sfravecatour. This year, the group presents a new show entitled "Jettatour," a true musical therapy aimed at warding off and banishing fears and ailments. The group consists of Angelo Plaitano, voice and guitar; Daniela Dentato, drum; Alfredo Marraffa, flutes; Domenico Ingenito, violin; Antonio Rizzo, electric bass; Pasquale Di Lascio, drums; and Francesca La Ragione, dance.

Next up is the turn of Mascarimirì, a group from the world music scene with a unique and original sound, the result of more than 20 years of "Tradinnovation." The idea of electro world music par excellence is created by Claudio "Cavallo" Giagnotti, a musician-producer from Salento with Roma origins, leader and founder of the band since 1998. The Mascarimiri project, born in a still non-touristic Salento, which has always been at the forefront of sound experimentation, stands for the union of tradition and innovation with a powerful and engaging sound, enriched by the sounds of the whole Mediterranean and gypsy area. Today the group's sound is mature, always innovative, strong in the deep knowledge of its roots, with unmistakable international identity. With twelve studio albums under their belt and first-rate concert activity, Mascarimirì has been rewriting tradition for more than 20 years. The group consists of: Claudio "Cavallo" Giagnotti, vocals, tamburieddhu, programming, ethnic winds; Alessandro Schito, vocals, tamburieddhu; Matteo Torsello, vocals, electric guitar; Gabriele Martino, vocals, electric mandolin; Kasia Kurdziel visual, production.

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Next stops:

AUG. 17 ZOLLINO VILLA COMUNALE
21:00 SOUTH OF BELLA CIAO with Riccardo Tesi, Elena Ledda, Lucilla Galeazzi, Gabriella Aiello, Alessio Lega, Nando Citarella, Maurizio Geri, Marzio Del Testa, Claudio Carboni. To follow Criamu

AUG. 18 GALATINA PIAZZA DANTE ALIGHERI

21:00 Pino Ingrosso

To follow Popular Orchestra La Notte Della Taranta

AUGUST 20 CASTRIGNANO DE’ GRECI PALAZZO DE GUALTIERIS

21:00 I Calanti

To follow Alla Bua

AUGUST 20 CUTROFIANO TOWN HALL SQUARE

21:00 Paraphoné

To follow Li Strittuli - Compagnia di Musica Popolare Salentina

AUG. 21 CALIMERA MARKET AREA

21:00 I Trillanti

To follow Kalascima

AUG. 22 MARTIGNANO PIAZZA DELLA REPUBBLICA

21:00 Briganti Di Terra D'otranto

To follow Popular Orchestra La Notte Della Taranta

AUGUST 23 SOLETO PIAZZA OSANNA

21:00 Corpo Di Ballo La Notte Della Taranta - Pizzica In Scena

21:30 Rocco Nigro "Come fece come non fece" with Antonio Castrignanò, Giorgio Distante, Redi Hasa, Egidio Marullo, Fabrizio Saccomanno, Giuseppe Spedicato

To follow Enza Pagliara - Fasinfasò with Antongiulio Galeandro, Dario Muci, Gianluca Longo, Claudia De Ventura, Sofia Giordani Pagliara, Viola Centi.

AUG. 24 STERNATIA PIAZZA UMBERTO I

19:00 Laboratorio Di Pizzica

21:00 Unzapzap Bif Band

To follow Cgs - Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino.

AUG. 25 MARTANO LARGO PRIMO MAGGIO

21:00 Taranters

To follow Nui...Nisciunu

Greek Harmony

Stella Grande

Concertone: Aug. 27 in Melpignano - FREE ENTRANCE

The Itinerant Festival is a project of Fondazione Notte della Taranta supported by Regione Puglia, Pugliapromozione, Grecìa salentina, Istituto Diego Carpitella.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1etZhAHKKoQpHfZdzZe9nf4rz6ixtaC6X?usp=sharing here you will find more photos from previous Itinerant Festivals

Main Sponsor: DMJ Mercedes di Maurizio De Mariani

Partners: ACQUA ORSINI, GIORGIO CORVAGLIA, OFFICINA PAAR,

Social Partners: FRATRES, INTEGRATION.

Official Concert Carrier: SOUTH EAST RAILWAYS

Technical partners: BUSFORFUN, CARRA, FASSI.

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