Presented to the press the tenth edition of the festival of ethnic music "Sounds from the Mediterranean", a journey through music, culture and solidarity that for ten years now represents a consolidated and the expected appointment of summer Andries. Since its launch in 1998, the event annually attracts crowds of enthusiasts in fact. This year intends to celebrate the tenth anniversary with a summary of cultural content that characterized its predecessors.
During the press conference, the artistic director Roger Inchingolo presented the news this year, the absolute preview of "Latrodectus" documentary made between France and Italy by the director and Jeremie Basset dall'etnopsichiatra Irene Gurrado It is a research on the roots of the "hidden bite" of the mythical taranta and a series of interviews with experts from various disciplines who are interested in tarantism.
The three-day timetable laid down in about 60 artists will participate with concerts, screenings, concerts lesson, presentations, music publications and a course of popular dances - another important novelty of this edition - which will be held on 1 and Aug. 2, in a cycle of 5 meetings at the courtyard of Palazzo Ducale (Piazza La Corte).
Among the exhibits planned, the tribute to zimba Pino, the great singer and extraordinary tambourines salentino died recently, whose spirit continues to live with "Zimbaria" who will perform the first evening. Under the intercultural dialogue, the second evening will see the exhibition of "Gangbè Brass Band", a new orchestra from the African Benin, formed by nine brass. The training Pugliese "Fanfara populara" and the voice of popular music history bell Simone Carotenuto - with "Tammorrari of Vesuvius" - close last night of the festival.
As pointed out by the Head of Culture Paul Farina, spoke at the press conference, "the festival is an occasion for dialogue, integration and solidarity." In the evenings will be in Piazza Catuma a space dedicated to solidarity towards the African people, where you can leave a free contribution to a project to build two classrooms for more than 100 children in the Ethiopian town of Zway .

Source: comune.andria.ba.it

PROGRAMMAEDIZIONE 2008

Africa, dances, bands, cinema, paranza, barbers, pinch and Taranto

60 the number of artists involved with concerts, seminars, screenings, folk dance courses, concerts lesson, musical presentations and publications.

2 concerts with the pizzica Salento in memory of "Pino zimba."

On the evening of Friday, Aug. 1 (Piazza Catuma, 21.30) will perform the "Traditional Salentina Dop" Massimiliano Morabito "Zimbaria" with a rich repertoire of involving pinch, to honor an 'icon of Salento, the great singer and tambourines salentino Pino Zimba recently disappeared, who in 1998 inaugurated the Festival "Sounds from the Mediterranean." with the presentation of the new directory on CD and the re-edited dall'organettista pinching and tarantellas of oral tradition Pugliese. Soon after will follow the group

2 concerts dedicated to intercultural dialogue and solidarity where Africa and Italy meet.

The evening of Saturday, August 2 (Piazza Catuma, 21.30) will be engaged "Gangbè Brass Band" a new orchestra made up of African disruptive brasses from Benin and the group of Mimmo Epifani, heir of the art of mandolin "the barber" S . Vito dei Normanni. After the concert the two groups will make room for a collective improvisation already experienced in the past, in respect of one of the main objectives of the festival which aspires to conceive music as a means of communication effective measure to facilitate the path of integration between different peoples, towards a possible way to intercultural dialogue. Do not miss the space devoted to solidarity towards the African people. In all three evenings a point of information ONLUS "Together for Africa", will be present in Piazza Catuma, with the aim of collecting bids to finance a project for the construction of two classrooms that will accommodate over 100 children Ethiopian city of Zway.

2 concerts devoted to music of the rites and avant-garde musical languages.

The evening of Sunday, Aug. 3 (Piazza Catuma, 21.30) opens with a band and a paranza southern Italy represented by: Fanfara populara, cutting-edge training always looking for new expressive languages on the furrow of tradition, presenting the His new repertoire and on CD;

Simone Carotenuto and Tammorrari of Vesuvius with tammurriate and songs to STIs invocation of the madonna in some processions typical dell'Agro Nocerino.

1 film presentation, in absolute preview, research the various meanings associated with the bite of taranta.

The evening of Aug. 2 (Courtyard Palazzo Ducale, 20.00) opens with the screening of the first draft of a documentary film that will be completed in November this year, entitled "LATRODECTUS." Unique for its scientific cut but with precious references to oral tradition, the film was shot between France and Italy from director Jeremie Basset and dall'etnopsichiatra Irene Gurrado. The live music dell'etnomusicologo Inchingolo Ruggiero, performed during the projection, highlighted some moments of this recent research at the roots of the "hidden bite" of the mythical taranta. The film is full of evocative images filmed in late'50s by the troupe of Ernesto De Martino, interesting interviews with the most qualified experts from various disciplines (including the same art director) who are interested in tarantism, as the dean of 'Institutional analysis and scholar of trance and possession, George Lapassade University of Paris VIII. The document is a valid testimony of how you can make 'interdisciplinary a bet for the future of the profession.

January 1 musicological presentation on the seminar with knowledge of a typical Pugliese.

The evening of August 3 (Courtyard Palazzo Ducale, 19.00), will give room for research work done dall'andriese Davide Roberto in the archives of the Centro Studi "The Garden of Sound" in the section on video-sound documentation of the Festival "Sounds from the Mediterranean. " During the seminar will explain the techniques used in a frame drums of southern Italy. Its interesting study, was the subject of thesis (with honors) discussed the DAMS of the University of Roma Tre. The tambourine and tammorra will be the protagonists of this journey through the Salento, Calabria and Campania to the discovery of similarities and differences in performance.

1 course of popular dance training for the public.

In an intense two days (Friday August 1 hour 15-19 and 10-14 Saturday August 2, 16-18) in the courtyard of the Palazzo Ducale, Joseph of Women and Lucia Polito (dancers and teachers) will show us and we will dance the real pizzica pizzica del Salento, through five times by two hours each. A path in stages that alternate practice (a lot) to help in the dancing contextualise and knowledgeable use with awareness.

1-concert lecture for the training of the public.

Sunday, August 3 (20.00) in the courtyard of the Palazzo Ducale, will perform the custodians of the musical heritage of oral tradition of Gargano, the group Michele Rinaldi, of Cantatore and playing guitar and flying the last guardian of traditional folk music of San Giovanni Rotondo . The same group has inaugurated the Festival in 1998.

The bill, therefore, is rich and our challenge is always to continue to collect container in cultural, not just groups of ethnic music of international importance, but also the personality of the regional music folklore, with behind significant experience in the field of tradition People who leave a treasure not only music, but mainly:

Heritage with the traditions of their land ownership;

Social, for the function to aggregate an audience for different age, geographical origin, social stratum, tastes and interests;

Training, for seminars and concerts lessons that enrich our knowledge with a strong education based on respect of cultures "other".

"Since 1998 'Sounds from the Mediterranean' offers musical traits of a land often favoring the custodians of a musical tradition that is learned orally. Decoupling from the merely spectacular, the festival also offers a concert lesson: not a product from the stage, but an opportunity to inform, create a relationship between music and culture of belonging groups. "