In Lipari the ‘Festival of Aeolian emigrants’

Big party in Lipari, the largest of the Aeolian islands for the ‘Festival of the Aeolian Emigrants’, created by Bartolino Leone’s eolian newsletter online, in collaboration with the councilor for culture of the Municipality of Lipari Tiziana De Luca. The festival took place in the setting of the theater at the castle of Lipari where many Aeolian emigrants who live in various places around the world met. The winners were the singer Cettina Perna, aka “Liza Lipari”, the executive of the Born in Luxembourg Enzo Silvestro, the Piedmontese company manager Angelo Sidoti and the engineer Agostino Cassarà. During the event, four skype connections were also made with Giovanni Finocchiaro from Sydney, Salvatore Cambria from London (Canada), with Felice D’Ambra from Cagliari and Gennaro Leone, from Sanremo. The evening was enlivened by a dozen islanders singers. During the interventions, “a certain discontent was expressed because the Aeolian natives on their return to the islands on hydrofoils no longer pay as” children of the Aeolian Islands “but as tourists”. “We have been forgotten”, they commented in chorus. “Liberty Lines actually provided for the facilitation for them on the occasion of the first edition of the Festival, then due to the restrictions for the covid it was eliminated – explains the organization – The regional councilor for transport Marco Falcone said on the occasion of the new announcement that will take place at the end of the year for transport, it will be foreseen. The news was greeted by thunderous applause “. The evening ended with the three whistles of the steamer, with the white handkerchiefs waving.