Glen Velez in Sicilia

[mana]

Vi invio queste informazioni su questo bellissimo meeting di tamburi a cornice in Sicilia (col grandissimo Glen Velez...)

From Luca Recupero:

The first framedrum festival in Sicily!
It will take place in Catania from April 18 to 25, and will include
many events and many great presenters, including:

Glen Velez, world famous framedrum "guru" who needs no presentations,
performing and teaching with rhythm vocalist Lori Cotler.

Bijan Chemirani (Iran), son of the acclaimed Djamchid Chemirani, he
is a young talent of persian classical percussion on Daf and Zarb.
Andrea Piccioni and Paolo Cimmino (Italy), exceptionally
talentedpercussionists and experts on the world's framedrums.

Layne Redmond, author of When The Drummers Were Women will lead a two
day workshop based on the material from her book, The Healing Power
of Drumming, Ritual, and Chanting

Pino Zimba (Salento, Italy), authentic icon of the Pizzica tradition
from Puglia, coming with his family of musicians and dancers.

Alfio Antico (Sicily, Italy), born as a shephard, he is now an
acclaimed carismatic performer and framedrum virtuoso.

Fabio Tricomi (Sicily, Italy), poly-instrumentalist and researcher on
ancient and ethnic musical instruments, great expert on Sicilian
tamburello tradition.

Francesco Paolo Manna (Campania, Italy), while cultivating the roots
of traditional "tammurriata", he put up an amazing collection of
framedrums from all over the world.

Nico Staiti (Sicily) professor of ethnomusicology and organology at
the University of Bologna, he is an expert on the history and
iconography of the framedrums in Italy and the Mediterranean.

Many other lesser-known (but equally interesting!!) guests are adding
up, for a very rich program which will soon be defined in detail.
This is actually the second edition of something I have called
Marranzano World Festival: a festival dedicated to traditional
musical instruments with a g/local perspective. Discovery and
promotion of sicilian traditions through confrontation with similar
instruments and traditions in the rest of the world. My vision is
that of reinforcing the local roots while simultaneously creating
global connections. If you cherish your own roots and traditions you
will more likely respect those of people from faraway places.

The first edition (oct. 2005) has focused on the "marranzanu" in
Sicily and the jew's harps in the rest of the world. An instrument
percieved as very very local, a real acoustic symbol of stereotypical
sicilian culture has become a vehicle for global awareness.

This year the festival has moved to April, becoming a true Spring
Celebration with the focus on the sicilian "tammureddu" and the
framedrums of the world.

The dates are 16-25 of april 2007, and the festival programme includes

a) a musical instruments exposition, with an overview of traditional
sicilian instruments and more than 150 different framedrums from all
over the world. This will include a wonderful iconographic support by
the Archeological museum of Agrigento, holding an extremely
interesting collection of pottery and clayworks with musical
representations dating VI ti III century bC. And of course some very
interesting images of the Tympanon (framedrum).

b) a musicological conference with an introduction on the history of
ethnomusicology and organology in Sicily and a focus on the history,
organology and symbology of the framedrums in the mediterranean and
beyond.

c) a rich program of workshops and masterclasses on frame drums,
percussion, and dance.

d) concerts, of course.

As you have seen from the list of main guests there is an emphasis on
Sicilian and Italian traditions, with an attempt to cover all the
main framedrum styles of (southern) Italy (which I think is very
interesting also for an international public). But there are
important international guests, and the possibility of having on the
same stage musicians coming from Usa and Iran has a symbolic meaning
which might even be too obvious in the present world political
situation, but nevertheless important in my view.

I have to confess that I am among those few remaining idealists who
think that music (as culture) can and should play an active role in
the making of a different and more sustainable model of development,
of social and intercultural relations, either on a personal or on a
global scale.

The main supporter of my project since the start has been the
University of Catania, where I hold ethnomusicology workshops since
2003. And many of the events will actually take place in the
beautiful Benedectine Monastery that hosts the Language and letters
Faculties who collaborate in the project.

I should add that Catania is a beautiful place to be in the spring:
on one side the sea on the other mount Etna, and in front of you the
splendid contradictions of a baroque sicilian city)

Luca Recupero

For more information contact: MoMu mondo di musica: mo.mu@tiscali.it

[Sbiccy]

Veramente da leccarsi i baffi!!!!

Peccato mi sia presochè impossibile partecipare...senza tener conto del fatto che praticamente non so neanche tenerlo in mano un tamburo a cornice!!/anche se mi piacerebbe molto saperlo fare!!)
:laugh:

[Baba]

Al 99.99% non potrò andare e mi viene quasi da piangere....

[yalla!]

MINKIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
...anch'io certamente non potrò andare... era meglio non saperlo, adesso mi martellerò le p... per dei mesi... :angry:

[Marquito]

Minchia! non posso venire! E' da 6 mesi che mi gratto! e non è successo nulla!
Ora lavoro 24 ore su 24 e sò già come andrà a finire,
ragà, se viene giovà idà, non fatemelo sapere!
vi prego!