Free concerts and musical performances in different places in Naples to celebrate the European Music Festival 2014
La European Music Festival is a great popular event that was born in France in 1982 to celebrate the summer solstice, which is held on 21nd June. Since then the festival has spread all over the world, arriving in Italy in 1994 thanks to the Festa della Musica Association that has been organizing for twenty years, also on June 21, free concerts of any kind and type in many Italian cities.
Also Napoli is preparing to welcome musical events with free admission in different places in the city, with a double appointment that includes apreview 20 on Friday at 17 and 21, and the “official” day of Saturday June 21, when there will be many concerts from morning to midnight, to celebrate the European Music Festival 2014.
La Music Festival it is not a "festival" but it represents the first musical cultural phenomenon of a "popular" character. It is not an event based on a particular genre or on a particular composer, but a real one popular event to which everyone can take part, as musicians or as spectators, with free admission and in which all the music is celebrated.
Objective of the Music Festival it is, in fact, that of bring everyone closer to music and allow maximum participation in a moment of sociality, creativity and expressiveness. There Music Festival it is open to all those who wish to perform in front of an audience to make themselves known, in the squares and streets of a city, forging "an open musical language", and giving music an educational and training role and cultural promotion. All events are free because the purpose of the festival is not profit but the promotion of live music and artists.
A Napoli la Music Festival it is coordinated by the Naples Music Festival Committee, created with the support of the CISL union with its federations of the FILCA (construction workers) and FAI (agricultural workers) category and sponsored by MIBACT and the French Ministry of Culture. Therefore, also in our city, free concerts and musical performances will be held in the various places of the city, in a busy program of events that is still being updated.
Program of events of the Music Festival in Naples:
20 June 2014
17 hours: 00
Concert of the students of the Music training center of via M. Renato Imbriani 94, at the school premises.
Piazza San Domenico Maggiore
21 hours: 00
Who scared the bad wolf
Musical-theatrical show which arises from sound improvisations. Organized by Isfom (Music Therapy Training Institute) and in collaboration with the associations "Echi del Mediterraneo" and "Teatro dell'ima".
Pursuing corporeality through gestural and choreutic figures, the fairy tale plot of this choreography will be set up coordinated by Diana Facchini and directed by Dario Aquilina who puts Little Red Riding Hood at the center of the scene in order to meet his sensual wave resisting the presence of nature. And following movements that in the therapeutic rite reveal propitiatory acts and propensity for courtship.
21 June 2014
Domus Ars
by 10: 00 20 to: 00
Guitar space
At the Domus Ars center of culture Via Santa Chiara 10 will take a trip in the popular / ethnic dynamics of the stringed instrument by the association Domenico Scarlatti.
Nut Academy
by 16: 00 19 to: 00
I Producer workshop, making music with the iPad
At the Nut Academy Corso Umberto I) free admission with booking via email at info@nutacademy.it / tel 081.0609334) the workshop on the use of the iPad in music production and live set will be held, by Vinci Acunto.
Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella
by 16: 00 20 to: 00
Stravinsky, Naples ... and the Neapolitan school
No-stop music between the study rooms and cloisters with the program Stravinsky, Naples ... and the Neapolitan school.
Institut français of Naples Grenoble
by 18: 00 24 to: 00
In the headquarters of Palazzo Grenoble (via Crispi 86) the Music Festival will consist of two different moments:
- Literary meeting The musician and the emperor
Conversation, which is inspired by the homonymous book published two years ago, between the journalist Piero Isgrò and the researcher Albina Abbate, intent on thinking about the parallel / duel that unites the composer Vincenzo Bellini and Napoleone Bonaparte: historical characters, who between music and power meet in illness, isolation and apparent natural death.
- Multiple dialogues between French and Neapolitan musicians
Andrea Saggiomo's 70fps concert with Riojim, in a swing between image and figurative. Following Grizzly Imploded confronts Pascal Battus, with the spastic improvisation of rock approached to French electroacoustics: everything is sound, far beyond the surface. Again, Mario Gabola welcomes Arnaud Rivière between primitive noise, analog synthesizers, sound poetry and larsen effects and resonances; finally the unprecedented sound excursion with SEC and Dario Sanfilippo who find Jean-Philippe Gross in the theory-action of musique concrète. Guest of honor, the speaker and his unspoken.
Basilica of San Giovanni Maggiore
by 18: 00 20 to: 00
Five scenarios, organized by the Discantus association and the Naples Order of Engineers Foundation.
They will play young musicians from 8 to 15 years; Giorgio Rizzo in piano-solo; the duo with Romilda Bocchetti (vocals / percussion) and Giovanni Guarrera (guitar); the trio with Gina Lacorazza (singing), Tobias Gonzalez Jimenez (piano) and Giovanni Giugliano (double bass) for "Cielo revés" and the Orchestra Discantus Ensemble conducted by Luigi Grima.
From 19: 00
Traveling performance Unidos de Napoles, with the conception and direction of the Samba Napoli association: the rhythmic journey will start under the Umberto I Gallery and crossing Via Toledo and Piazza Dante will end in Piazza Bellini at the rate of Brazilian percussions and North Africa.
Circolo Canottieri of the Molosiglio pier
From 20: 00
Space at jazz with the concert coordinated by the association of former students of the San Pietro a Majella Music Conservatory, under the patronage of the National Library of Naples. On stage, the Marco Sannini Swing Tree in the show "On the Swing Side of the Street": Marco Sannini (trumpet), Oscar Montalbano (manouche guitar) and Gianfranco Coppola (double bass) will bring a program of music and ballad to the Neapolitans date back to the so-called great depression of the twentieth century.
Washington / Harline's “When You Wish Upon A Star”; "Mack the Knife" by Kurt Weill, "Maramao why are you dead" by Consiglio / Panzeri and "Si tu vois ma mère" by Sindey Bechèt
Piazza San Domenico
Starting at 21: 00
"The dances of the peoples" and "The dances of the South"
The associations "Passi strai" and "The steps of the tradition" will set up tarantella and tammurriate to remind everyone that the party is a precious moment of conviviality and knowledge, discovery and awareness of its geographical / anthropological heritage. On the contrary, the exhibition "Jesce sole - solstizio d'estate" takes place outside the city.
Vesuvius National Park
The idea of the Synapsis onlus will see Giovanni Mauriello on stage with Patrizio Trampetti, Marco Zurzolo and Gennaro Venditto.
The images of the European Music Festival coming from Naples will be projected on the big screen at the Palais Royal in Paris the evening of the 21 June.
Information on the European Music Festival 2014
When: And June 20 21 2014
Where: different places in Naples
info about official website of the European Music Festival
