The fraction of Pegna and its characteristic village protagonists of the summer of events in Cereal: from 2 July the second edition of the International Mediterranean Festival will start in the evocative location of the Carlo Vacca amphitheatre, organized by the Melisma Aps association based in Loano.
Appointments until August 13th, for an event that sees the Municipality of Ceriale as its main supporter.
The Festival is conceived and organized by the founding members of Melisma Aps: Monica Romanisio, singer and theater director from Loano, who returned to her beloved Liguria after a decade of work experience in Parisian theaters, and by the multi-instrumentalist, as well as artistic director of the Festival, Mauro Perego De Salvia, the first flamenco singing graduate in Italy, originally from Rapallo, but who boasts an international artistic career as a flautist, saxophonist and singer specialized in the flamenco jazz language: from Mexico, to the United States, from China to Australia, and then spent a decade in Seville, where he met and collaborated intensely with leading artists in the world of flamenco.
The Festival will be inaugurated by the well-known traditional music group “Le Tre Sorelle”, with their new musical show inspired by all the Italian songs dedicated to our Mediterranean Sea.
There will be international guests such as “El Mawi de Cadiz”, an Andalusian singer and dancer who will perform in the evening dedicated to flamenco and Mirna Kassis, a well-known Syrian singer who will close the Festival with a journey into the sounds of the Middle Eastern Mediterranean. But also Elisa dal Corso, a young and talented singer from Piacenza who is well known and appreciated in Italian theatres.
The Festival will be held over eight evenings, with free admission, linked to the sounds and instruments typical of the Mediterranean, with contemporary influences. From “Vulcana” a theatrical recital of dialogue between two cultures of southern Italy, the Sicilian and the Campanian, with Maria Piscopo and Francesco Salvadore, to a journey between Italy and South America guided by the accordion of the famous Genoese musician Filippo Gambetta; from Notte Flamenca to an evening dedicated to the women of the Resistance with the Genoese duo of artists Simona Ugolotti and Praux.
The program also includes a dance and sound workshop around the tammurriate campana by the artist Maria Piscopo and a workshop for children on building musical instruments with recycled materials: a real show where four “superheroes” take the fate of the planet to heart (by the Laboratorio Ripercussioni Sociali).
To accompany the Cerialese Festival, tapas and Mediterranean dishes for the members of Melisma Aps.
“A Festival strongly desired by the municipal administration of Ceriale: a unique event as it is capable of uniting music, art and hinterland, to enhance and promote our magnificent village of Peagna and create moments of meeting, exchange and entertainment around our Mediterranean” underlined the mayor Marinella Fasano and the councilor for Events Gianbenedetto Calcagno.
