Bari 2011

The open­ing event of the first edi­tion, on Novem­ber 24, 2011, was Merav­iglioso Mod­ugno, at the Pet­ruzzelli Theatre in Bari, a trib­ute to Domen­ico Mod­ugno pro­duced in col­lab­or­a­tion with the Pre­mio Tenco and fea­tur­ing Vini­cio Capos­sela and the Mari­netti sis­ters, Simone Crist­ic­chi, Cristina Donà, Mauro Erman­no Giovanardi, Pino Marino, Nada & Fausto Mesolella, Roy Paci, Radi­oder­vish, Peppe Servillo, Daniele Sil­vestri, Sud Sound Sys­tem, Paola Turci and Peppe Vol­tarelli. A trib­ute to the most fam­ous songs and to the invalu­able per­form­ances in ver­nacu­lar lan­guage of the pro­duc­tion of Domen­ico Mod­ugno, an artist who intro­duced in his songs the “inven­tion of the sea” and the “bit­ter­ness of his land”, in the same theat­er where fifty years earli­er Mod­ugno had cel­eb­rated the 100th anniversary of the Uni­fic­a­tion of Italy with “Rinaldo in Campo”.

From reg­gae to pop­u­lar music, from the sounds of the Balkans to exper­i­ment­al music, from elec­tron­ic music to rock music: twenty-one artists, from Puglia, Italy and oth­er coun­tries, took turns on three stages for a jour­ney through the sounds of the Medi­ter­ranean. Sav­ina Yan­natou, The Ban­diti, Bianco, Roberta Alloisio, Sonia Brex, Boom Da Bash, Fab­riz­io Cam­marata flanked by Second Grace, Moussu T and Lei Jovents, Rodrigo Leao flanked by Cinema Ensemble, Badi­aa Bouhr­izi, Djmawi Africa, Trans­g­lob­al Under­ground and Natacha Atlas.