THE EVENT Voices for freedom reveals the program with this year’s stars who will be honored by Amnesty international and who will be present at festivalscheduled to Rovigo from 19 to 21 July.
The 27th edition of “A song for Amnesty” will feature protagonists Diodato, Omar Pedrini, Erica Mou, Patrizia Laquidara, Laika, Malvax and Gloria Rogato, the Emergents competition and more under the banner of Amnesty’s “Protect the protest” campaign. The event will be broadcast by Rai Radio 1. Like last year, the festival will be preceded by Human Rights Week, in the city center from afternoon to evening and which will start on Monday 15 July, with the program to be presented later.
Eight bands and songwriters from all over Italy will present themselves at the Emergenti prize, scheduled every evening from 9.30 pm on the stage in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele. On Friday 19th Matteo Faustini from Brescia will compete with “Il girasole in love with the moon”, Isotta from Siena with “Coming out”, Emanuele Conte from Treviso with “Proiettile bambolina” and Turbosspectro from Milan with “2030”. On Saturday 20th it will be the turn of Capone & BungtBangt from Naples with “Capille luonghe”, Giulia Mei from Palermo with “Bandiera”, Motus from Taranto with “Forfortuna ci sei tu” and Babele from Messina with “Mediterraneo”. On Sunday 21st there will be the final between the five best and the announcement of the winner, who will also receive a bonus offered by Noise Symphony music and Indieffusione and the Mer of Faenza, but the critics’ and popular jury’s prizes will also be awarded.
THE GUESTS
On the evenings of the competition there will be guests, with Friday marked by Patrizia Laquidara, Venetian-Sicilian considered among the most multifaceted and brilliant figures of current songwriting, winner of important prizes such as that of the critics among young people in Sanremo 2003 and the Tenco 2011 plaque as best album in dialect. Then Erica Mou, an artist from Puglia with over eight hundred concerts in Italy and abroad and six studio albums under her belt. In 2012 you participated in the Sanremo Festival in the youth category, winning the Mia Martini critics’ and radio-TV press room awards.
On Saturday 20th the guest will be the Modena band Malvax, with Italian indie-pop, followed by Omar Pedrini, one of the most influential pens on the Italian singer-songwriter scene, who is celebrating 35 years of career by returning to the scene together with the band of the same name with a show special with successes from Timoria to today.
On Sunday 23rd the singer-songwriter from Rovigo Gloria Rogato will take to the stage, followed by the award ceremony and performance by Diodato as winner of the Amnesty International Italia award, Big section, with “La mia terra”. The song, composed for the film “Palazzina Laf” by Michele Riondino and winner of the David di Donatello in the best original song category, is a tribute to the city of Taranto: moving from the myth, to its origins and its history, it tells of a city struck by injustice and the desire of his people to rise again. In the live performance he will be accompanied by Rodrigo d’Erasmo.
Hosting the three evenings on the main stage will be Savino Zaba (Rai 1-Radio 1), Carmen Formenton (Voices for Freedom) and Manola Borgato (Radio Kappa).
The three days will also feature afternoon events. On Friday 19th at 6pm in Piazzetta Annonaria there will be “The prison in the square”, a reading between music and words with Erica Mou and the actors Giorgia Brandolese and Andrea Zanforlin, then at 7.30pm the musical aperitif “Radio Kappa talks” with some of the artists who they will take the stage in the evening. On Saturday 20th at 6pm at the Duomo cinema the screening of the film “Life is (not) a game” with the presence of Laika, activist, street artist and protagonist of the film. At 7.30 pm in Annonaria again “Radio Kappa talks”. Sunday 21st at the Duomo cinema, at 6pm, the meeting with Diodato who will dialogue with the public and journalists together with Francesca Corbo, of Amnesty International Italy, and Michele Lionello, artistic director of Voices for Freedom.
