This year's traditional and iconic Notte della Taranta concert will be for the first time without a live audience, which has always been its true soul with chants, dancing and tarantella twirls.
But it will nonetheless be as exciting and magical as ever, with
the timless music, drums and pizziche prancing being broadcast
to a much bigger audience on TV.
The inimitable show will be transmitted on Rai2 on August 28, at
22:50.
It will be recorded this Saturday night in the evocative setting
of the ex-convent of the Augustinians at Melpignano, a town in
the Salento peninsula of Puglia.
It will be inaccessible to non-residents, in order to avoid
gatherings in compliance with anti-COVID norms.
The 23rd edition of the Notte della Taranta was presented Friday
at the Palazzo Marchesale De Luca in Melpignano, by those who
organized, scripted and conceived it.
This year's three 'superguests' were there: Mahmood, Diodato and
Gianna Nannini.
Mahmood will perform a song in Arabic, 'Sabry 2aleel', a love
song that Shereen turned into a hit and a childhood memory of
the artist who listened to it in the car with his father.
Nannini has chosen to sing the track 'Fimmene Fimmene, with
which she conquered the audience at Melpignano in 2004, with her
ballsy style and unmistakable voice.
Diodato, from Taranto, will serve up 'Beddrha ci Dormi', a
classic from Salento's traditional musical repertoire.
Also in attendance Friday were the president of the Notte della
Taranta foundation, Massimo Manera, Melpignano Mayor Ivan
Stomeo, and Puglia tourism councillor Loredana Capone.
Master musician Paolo Buonvino described the Notte della Taranta
2020.
He focused on one word, 'meeting'. A meeting understood as a
contact between different art forms, distant genres, and
traditions that seem very far away from each other too. With
ancient music and computers, drums, dances and high fashion
outfits.
The Concertone (Big Concert) will thus be a veritable fusion in
this special year that is so difficult for outdoor events. A
chance to build bridges in place of walls, to knock down all
kinds of barriers and open up to intermingling and mixing
different things.
Puglia-born actor Sergio Rubini will lead TV viewers on an
"emotional journey" on Rai2, narrating the land of Salento and
telling it through its inhabitants and music, its oldest and
still most spontaneous forms of music.
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