The first Contraband Music Festival arrives at the Aragonese Castle of Baia with the concert of Eugenio Bennato, Petra Montecorvino and other artists who sing us from the "South of the World"!
Friday 5 October 2018 the first one arrives Contrabby Music Festival in Castle of Baia thanks to the realization of a project directed artistically by Eugenio Bennato. The concerts will take place on the Terrace of the Mezzaluna of the enchanting Aragonese Castle and they foresee the performance of Eugenio Bennato himself, of his wife Montecorvino stone need many other artists and groups.
Bennato has always carried his own around Italy, and beyond smuggling music, of solidarity and union between peoples, especially those who live on shores of the Mediterranean and this musical project fits well into what is his idea of art and music.
In his passages there he always speaks of South of the World, of peoples who travel and sail and who do not give up and do not align themselves with the rest. The artist himself declared himself very enthusiastic about the initiative because he takes us back to the heart of what was there Magna Grecia.
We report that during the concert you can not visit the Castle and the Museum.
The program of the Contrabby Music Festival
Il concert will be opened by Mujura, a Calabrian artist and composer who has been collaborating with him for many years and proposes aexcellent folk ethnic music. He is accompanied by Neapolitan musicians Salvatore Rainone (drums), Vincenzo Lamagna (bass), Ezio Lambiase (guitar), Marcello Smigliante Gentile (mandola), Riccardo Villari (violin), Marcello Giannini (guitar).
Subsequently, i will perform South Quartet shore, polyphonic vocal quartet composed by Letizia D'Angelo (soprano), Laura Cuomo (alto), Francesco Luongo (tenor) and Edoardo Cartolano (bass).
In conclusion, there will be the live by Eugenio Bennato with the musicians Ezio Lambiase, Sonia Totaro, Francesca Del Duca, Stefano Simonetta and Mohammed Ezzaime El Alaoui. Guest of excellence, the singer Montecorvino stone, wife of the artist. Among unreleased, will be presented "Kifaya", One song dedicated to the dreams of the Arab Spring.
