“Raizes” musical review
The “Raizes” music festival open on December 30th with The España Circo Este on the stage of Zō Centro Culture Contemporanee.
Saturday, December 30th, at 10 pm, on the stage of Zō Centro Culture Contemporanee, España Circo Este will perform for the opening concert of the “Raizes” exhibition, produced by the Zo Association and by the Darshan Association and supported by the patronage and contribution of the Sicilian Region, Department of Tourism, Sport and Entertainment and, for some events, by Imaie.
The group looks like a real musical-circus caravan with a unique and original sound. Their music is Latin Pop Punk, Tango, Cumbia, Reggae that explodes live through a powerful rhythm.
Raizes is a review of world music in which elements of popular and traditional music are contaminated with “all the music of the world”, understood as a continuous fabric of related and modular experiences. The event aims to spread the knowledge of musical cultures and for this reason seeks to “give voice” to the peoples and their cultures, highlighting their cultural heritage.
CONCERTS CALENDAR:
DECEMBER 30th : Opening concert with the España Circo Este.
JANUARY 25th : Fanfara Station, a trio project with live looping that combines the strength of a wind orchestra, the electronics and the rhythms and songs of the Maghreb.
JANUARY 27th : Il Canzoniere Greanico Salentino, the most important group of Italian popular music, the first to be formed in Puglia, reinterprets in a modern key the traditions of the famous tarantata (“I Beddi” will open the concert).
FEBRUARY 16th : it will be the turn of Marco Selvaggio, the Sicilian Hang player that will present “Aether”, his second work, an ethereal, mystical and innovative album.
MARCH 9th : Arenaria, the musical project and record born from an idea of the component of the group Agricantus, Mario Crispi, brings on stage “Maeream”, the new album of the group.
MARCH 17th : on the occasion of the San Patrick Day, the Irish cellist and singer Naomi Berrill presents her second album “To the Sky”.
MARCH 29th : it will be the turn of Harpet Rising, three classical musicians who play original music, arranged in a structured way as a string quartet.
APRIL 5th : a dip in Brazil with Yaraka, a project that proposes a path rooted in the Brazilian popular tradition with the revisiting of traditional and contemporary authors.
APRIL 20th : The Turin-based pioneer band of the Italian Electro Swing, The Sweet Life Society, arrives on the stage of the Zō, and re-proposes itself with a renewed sound with the new album “Antique Beats”.
MAY 4th : the violinist and singer of northern Estonia Maarja Nuut closes Raizes exhibitions with her music in which minimalism and experimental sounds meet ancestral musical traditions.
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