Musicultura, the final with Enrico Ruggeri and Veronica Maya at the Sferisterio in Macerata

Emit, Isotta, Cassandra Raffaele, Valeria Sturba, The Morbelli, Martina Vinci, Yo, Yosh Whale: these are the eight winners of the XXXIII edition of Musicultura, the Festival of popular and author songs, who will perform at the Sferisterio in Macerata. symbol of the Marches, next 24th and 25th June. Already tonight it will be possible to familiarize yourself with the songs of the eight superfinalists and their stories, tuning in to Rai Radio 1, which will broadcast live from Room A in via Asiago starting at 9 pm, their strictly live concert with Duccio Pasqua, Marcella Sullo and John Vignola in management. “Rai Radio 1 in addition to providing information – explains Andrea Vianello, director of Giornale Radio and Radio Uno, presenting the event at the Rai headquarters in via Asiago – Rai is the home of Sanremo, it embraces the birth path of Italian musical culture and I believe that the Macerata stage is fundamental because from there you understand who could reach the general public of Sanremo. ” It will be the vote of the public to decree the overall winner. Two evenings that will be broadcast by the Sferisterio of Macerata will be broadcast on Rai Radio 1, the official radio of the event, with Veronica Maya and Enrico Ruggeri in conduction and which will then be broadcast next 8 July on Rai 2, in the late evening, in a television program that will also be broadcast by Rai Italia for Italians residing in the Alongside the young singers, selected from over a thousand participants in the competition, on June 24th and 25th Italian and foreign artists are confirmed on the Sferisterio stage as Litfiba, Manuel Agnelli, Ditonellapiaga, Ilaria Pilar Patassini, Silvana Estrada (Mexico), DakhaBrakha (Ukraine), Violons Barbares (Franco-Bulgarian-Mongolian trio) Gianluca Grignani and the Icelandic singer-songwriter Emiliana Torrini & The Colorist Orchestra who will perform at Musicultura his only stop in Italy in 2022. ” Here we try to cultivate favorable conditions for the rediscovery of the most intimate reasons for the spectators’ passion for songs, both by involving guests of vast notoriety, and by proposing lesser-known but equally good artists – explains Ezio Nannipieri , Artistic Director of Musicultura – We are going to meet a special edition: the quality and variety of the cast, the spirit with which the guests accepted the invitation and our proposals and then some last minute surprises make me think will not fail “. “It will be the festival of popular songwriting ”, underlines Giovanni Anversa, deputy director of prime time entertainment. Also present at the press conference was Carlo Fontana, Co-director of TGR who is keen to recall how” during the period of Covid Musicultura it was broadcast by the newspaper in streaming ”. “Musicultura is truly a beautiful family – adds Veronica Maya – next year I have been working for Rai for twenty years, I come from the world of the ‘Zecchino D’Oro’ – remember – which is music and culture of childhood so I feel welcomed by this beautiful family of Musicultura, starting with Enrico (Ruggeri, ed), a giant, who last year with his band also allowed me to duet. This year I still don’t know if I will do it again, we’ll see … ‘ “The Marches are my favorite place – continues Ruggeri, who will host the event for the fourth time – in the last ten years becoming famous has become almost a moral quality, like money. In reality, music is made by people who have the urgency to communicate something, they have things inside to say so Musicultura is a great training ground for life, quality is privileged ”, concludes the singer. Six of the eight winners have been designated at the sole discretion of the Artistic Guarantee Committee, which in this XXXIII edition is composed of Vasco Rossi, Roberto Vecchioni, Claudio Baglioni, Enzo Avitabile, Francesco Bianconi, Giorgia, The Representative of the List, Carmen Consoli, Simone Cristicchi, Sandro Veronesi, Niccolò Fabi, Dacia Maraini, Gaetano Curreri, Maria Grazia Calandrone, Luca Carboni, Alessandro Carrera, Guido Catalano, Ennio Cavalli, Diego Bianchi, Teresa De Sio, Francesca Archibugi, Mariella Nava, Antonio Rezza, Enrico Ruggeri, Tosca , Paola Turci, Ron. The two remaining winners were chosen by Musicultura. All authors of the songs they interpret, the artists enter the final phase of the competition at the end of a long selection that initially involved 1,086 artists and 2,172 songs. After a first phase of listening and screening, subsequent accurate live auditions for 61 artists, Musicultura has identified a shortlist of eighteen finalists. The eight winners will all perform on Friday evening 24 June, the vote of the Sferisterio public will designate the four proposals that will access the final on Saturday 25, when the winner of the Banca Macerata Award of 20 thousand euros will be elected in the same way. Other significant bonuses are the AFI Award of 3 thousand euros, the Unimarche Award for the best text of 2 thousand euros, the support of 10 thousand euros for carrying out an eight-date tour, thanks to NuovoImaie (with funds from art. . 93/92) and the coveted Targa della Critica of 3 thousand euros named after Piero Cesanelli, the creator of Musicultura and its artistic director from the first edition until 2019. The finalist songs of the XXXIII edition of the competition are collected in the Cd Compilation ‘ Musicultura XXXIII ed. 2022 ‘, distributed by Cni and available on all major digital platforms.