TREVISO – In Treviso it’s time for jazz, andfollowing its April 30 premiereSuona Jazz Festival celebrates its tenth edition, scheduled from 18 to 26 May, animating the streets, squares and concert halls of the city. As always happens, in addition to the big names, there is no shortage of appointments with local artists, this year dedicated in particular to female jazz proposals. Events enjoyable and accessible to all, with free entry, for those who want to experience the festival outside of the designated places, even for non-specialists or for those who want to relax and enjoy a holiday in Treviso, because “the basic idea is that jazz can be a shared heritage, to meet and listen to good live music together, in the stalls, in the streets and squares”.
We leave on the evening of Tuesday 14 May at the Piola pizzeria, with the couple Irene Lovato (vocals) and Edoardo Cian (guitar), two young talents, among the most promising in the Treviso area. This year too, Piola confirms itself as a meeting point for those who want to experience music outside of concert halls.
Thursday 23 May a particularly rich day is planned. In fact, events are scheduled to be spread across venues, squares and exhibition venues in the centre. The inauguration of the musical afternoon will be entrusted to marching band Funkasin, a guarantee of energy ready to invade the streets and squares of the historic center from 6pm. At the same time, the external courtyard of the Lazzari Store will host Francesca Bertazzo Hart, voice and guitar, specialist in the scat technique, and the double bass player Beppe Pilotto. The two musicians, gifted with undeniable talent and magnificent understanding, will perform on the occasion of the finissage of the art exhibition “Alchemy of matter” curated by Roberta Gubitosi. The events in the center’s venues will take off at 7pm, where Sara Righetto (vocals) and Alessandro Pasqual (guitar) are expected at Tocai, while at 7.30pm at Bloom, in Via San Liberale, ample space will be given to the very close-knit duo Irene Lovato and Luca Zennaro.
For dinner time the jazz atmosphere will return to Piola, with a couple from Treviso, Elisa Meo and Luciano Bottos. Following there will be Giulio Campagnolo’s DJ set, with refined jazz and on vinyl, at the Dump in Galleria Bailo, while at the Home in the foundry area the music until late in the evening will be proposed by the singer’s new, certainly interesting quartet Francesca Viaro, flanked by well-known musicians from the Triveneto scene such as Marco Ponchiroli (piano), Dario Zennaro (guitar) and Alessandro Turchet (double bass).
Free music in the stalls will continue Friday 24 May at the Dazio di Porta Calvi, which hosts the sophisticated DJ set of Flick to Kick for the aperitif time, while dinner at the Med will be accompanied by the singer Rita Bincoletto and the pianist Paolo Vianello. Saturday 25 May the jazz notes of Sara Fattoretto (vocals) and Simone Bortolami (guitar) will be the protagonists at Bloom, and following, at Cos51, it will be the turn of Giuseppe Vitale’s bass and Francesco Faro’s guitar.
Sunday 26 May the festival leaves the walls and reaches Love di Roncade, where the jazz lunch at 12.30 will be accompanied by the splendid voice of Giuditta Franco, accompanied by Edoardo Cian on guitar, while from 6.30 pm the Bistrò sulle Mura will be the protagonist with a repertoire of jazz and music international revisited by Serena Fontanel (vocals) and Enrico Casarotto (guitar). At the end of the event, from 9pm until late at night there will be a jam session at Dump, with Dario Ponara (vibraphone) Edoardo Cian (guitar) Alessio Zoratto (double bass) Francesco De Tuoni (drums).
In the afternoons of Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th May, as per tradition, free concerts are expected in the Loggia dei Cavalieri. The performances will involve i young talents, students of the “Bebop is the modern language” festival workshop and teachers of the jazz department of the Castelfranco Veneto Conservatory, an ensemble composed of some of the most important Italian jazz musicians such as Gianluca Carollo, Mauro Ottolini, Francesca Bertazzo Hart, Ettore Martin, Federico Malaman, Bruno Cesselli, Luca Colussi.
The festival programme, in addition to events in clubs and outdoors, includes evening concerts with leading names on the international scene, but also screenings, exhibitions, educational and children’s events. The entire program on www.trevisosuonajazz.it
