Santa Balera will be the protagonists on Sunday at 6.30pm at the Sala Teatro della Fabbrica delle Candele, in an event that will be a meeting of young musicians rather than a concert. Together with the band, the kids who are participating in the “Musica sociale a Forlì” project underway at the Fabbrica delle Candele since March will take the stage, with whom they will play a song. Fresh from their performance in Sanremo and a concert held on May 1st in Savignano sul Rubicone, Santa Balera, born from an intuition of the patron of the Mei di Faenza Giordano Sangiorgi, are promoting the music of Romagna throughout Italy.
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“We are happy that the Santa Balera has accepted the invitation of No.Vi.Art for a moment of discussion and exchange of notes with the children of the Social Music project in Forlì – explains Maria Teresa Indellicati, president of the association – Under the guidance of maestros Giuseppe Zanca and Gioele Sindona, ten young and very young instrumentalists from local music schools are exploring jazz and swing, ensemble and improvisational music, genres and methods that are unusual for them”.
“The aim of the project is to show young instrumentalists the many variations of music, as well as amalgamating the talents of individuals into an ensemble, leaving them space, but at the same time putting them at the service of collective harmony. Improvisation thus allows individual performers to take up space and moments of freedom, respecting the rules that are the basis of this language and constantly listening to the other members of the group”.
This concert, which will be free to enter, is also an opportunity to restore value to Romagna music which in recent years had been overshadowed. “There is no good or bad music, there is only music done well or badly – underlines maestro Giuseppe Zanca, musician and artistic director of the “Social Music in Forlì” project – and with this initiative we want to promote the music of Romagna, because it represents the our territory. In other areas of Italy such as Puglia or Sardinia it is rightly put in the foreground and we must do so too, because it represents our heritage, a genre that must be praised. Sunday’s concert is therefore the demonstration that young people must approach the ballroom and the music of our land”.
Santa Balera, which has five of the eleven members of the band from Forlì, is also an example for young people who want to make music and enter this world. “I want to show the kids who attend the course that they too can make the journey to get on stage and that everyone has the opportunity to do it – says maestro Luca Medri, director of CosaScuola Music Academy -. CosaScuola Music Academy and Mei carried out the Santa Balera project by selecting 70 kids who later became 11, giving them the opportunity to perform and play different musical genres that go well together. We made them understand that musical genres don’t exist, but only fun and the desire to play with others.”
Santa Balera are expected on a long tour in the next few months ‘born thanks to the visibility that Amadeus and the Sanremo Festival gave them with as many as 13,500 people who attended their performance’ underlines Giordano Sangiorgi, patron of the Mei and creator of the project, “and this shows how much national popular music such as ballroom music needs to be promoted: we did it with kids who put passion and discipline into what they do and deserve to experience these emotions”.
