In a month Fano will be ready to set sail in the direction of a new route, traveling “Sopravènto”, to reach the meeting point between music and the sea
He is born WindwardThe music festival of the Municipality of Fano (with the patronage ofDepartment of Culture and Cultural Heritage and of theTourism Department) dedicated to the navyorganized by Rebel House with the artistic direction by Colapesce and Dimartino.
A new format that will take place in former Church of San Francesco and in places of the navy Of Fano from the 24 to 26 May 2024.
In seafaring, the term “overwind” identifies everything that is on the side from which the wind blows (referring to the position of the observer). In meteorology, this is the part most exposed to the risk of precipitation.
In our specific case it is everything that will happen in three days of music and meetings, in different maritime and cultural places in Fano.
Emotions will take over and each of us will be exposed to the “risk” of relationships: when the sea communicates with the historic center, the sailors will return and the call of the sirens will be a song.
The news is given by the Rebel House office in the historic center of Fano, a stone’s throw from what is in all respects a typical monument of Fano neoclassical archaeology, or rather the place that will be the founder of the Sopravènto event: the former Church of San Francesco.
Rebel Houseon behalf of Municipality of Fanoreveals the route mapped out for this new public event which aims to synthesize the looks, feelings and cultures of two worlds apparently very distant from each other, such as that of music and seafaring. And it does so with a new format, divided into three days, with meetings organized at different times and in characteristic places.
If the fulcrum of the shows will in fact be the open-air monument of the former Church of San Francesco, various other places of the navy will be the stage for rendezvous between the protagonists of the event.
Those places will be dressed up to host the custodians of the maritime tradition, who will dialogue with artists, journalists and politicians, to discuss the theme of the sea and its sociological, historical and cultural value, giving it a heartfelt and renewed dignity.
The intention of the event is to cite without being slavish, to honor without rhetoric, to tell by placing emphasis on an ancillary theme such as seafaring, marginal to the discourses of common colloquialism, despite the fact that the practice of this profession is still in Fano an important spin-off for the economy and active life of the community.
To succeed in this aim, the municipality of Fano, through Rebel House, will make use of the professionalism and visibility of two exceptional artistic directors. Colapesce and Dimartino they have curated the musical schedule and will be present during the festival.
Musicians and multi-instrumentalists who in recent years are riding the wave of success and who, with the recent revisitation of the song “I Marinai” by Ivan Graziani (composed and inspired according to sources by listening to a choir of sailors from our area) they will be able to direct the spectators’ gazes towards a topic that deserves to be contemplated also in public opinion.
The choice fell on the well-known artistic duo because the sea element has always been never marginal in their poetic narration
Their Sicilian origins also create an important and subtle common thread with what was the enchanting music festival that characterized and brought to Fano internationally renowned artists of the caliber of Coldplay. Those were the times of “The Violin and the Flint”, when in that case the artistic direction was entrusted to a Sicilian artist: Franco Battiato.
The festival will be accompanied by collective gestures around the city which will be revealed in the coming weeks and which will also see various associations activated whose aims are in line with the aim of the initiative.
However, the artists who on the three evenings, starting from 8.30 pm, preceded by voices reciting maritime readings, will perform inside the former Church of San Francesco are already known.
For shows tickets will be on sale from 24 April 2024 on the LiveTicket portal.
edited by
Emmanuele Olivi
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Rebel House
