CCCP – Fedeli alla linea, Rufus Wainwright, Dardust, Beach Fossils, La Crus, Bar Italia, Yīn Yīn, Parbleu, I Hate my village, The Bluebeaters, Dov’è Liana, Materazi Future Club, Bassolino, Massimo Silverio, Emma Nolde, Nebula, La musica di Forte, Maladé, Postino, Santamarea, Thomas Umbaca, Ninotchka, Cristiano Metrangolo, Ninfa Giannuzzi and Valerio Daniele are the already confirmed guests of the 18th edition of Coolclub‘s SEI Festival. Characterized by the claim “Perdersi per Ritrovarsi“, from June 21st to August 30th, also this summer the event will offer its musical journey around Salento. Since 2006, in fact, SEI (acronym for Sud Est indipendente) has been bringing the most interesting sounds of the Italian and international scene in the whole province of Lecce, offering the public a wide and varied overview of music from punk to singer-songwriter, rock to ska, folk to upbeat rhythms, electronic to the new Italian scene.
Anticipation grows for the unmissable return to Melpignano(Friday, August 9th) of CCCP – Fedeli alla linea. Among the stops of the most eagerly awaited summer’s tour started in Bologna, absolutely could not miss the small Griko town to which the band is deeply attached because of the incredible story of the tour in the Soviet Union told in the recent movie “Kissing Gorbachev” by Andrea Paco Mariani and Luigi D’Alife. Forty years after the first EP, “Ortodossia”, Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, Massimo Zamboni, Annarella Giudici and Danilo Fatur will take the stage at the AMelpignano arena in Antonio Avantaggiato Square. Also in Melpignano but in Piazza San Giorgio will arrive the Canadian artist Rufus Wainwright(Friday, July 19th). Described by Sir Eltohn John as “the greatest living singer-songwriter,” he will present a solo show (piano and voice) in which the audience will be able to be carried away by melodies steeped in folk tones and flashes of traditional American song. Instead, in theAmphitheater of the Archaeological Park of Rudiae in Lecce, a city that was first Messapian and then Roman, known above all for being the birthplace of the father of Latin literature Quintus Ennius, Dardust, one of the world’s most listened to and appreciated Italian musicians and producers, will perform a piano solo concert(Saturday, August 3rd) and singer-songwriter, singer and guitarist Massimo Silverio, who writes and sings in Cjarniel, a minority language of the Carnic Alps(Sunday, August 11th).
The festival will open as early as Friday, June 21st, at Garofano Vigneti e Cantine in the Tenuta Li Monaci in Copertino with a sunset sound walk among the rows of vines and a concert by Neapolitan pianist, composer and producer Bassolino. As every year, many are the dates hosted among the terraces, atrium and moat of the Castello Volante of Corigliano d’Otranto, which this year will host two international evenings between indie rock and post-punk, funk and traditional Asian music, cumbia and afrobeat with the Beach Fossils U.S. band and the anglo|italian trio Bar Italia(August 12th), Parbleu, an excursion of equatorial groove, and the quartet Yīn Yīn, which lives artistically on a tropical island between Europe and Southeast Asia(Tuesday, August 13th). In the ancient fortress also the final of the Sei d’Autore contest (June 28th and 29th), Emma Nolde, La musica di Forte and Santamarea (July 20th), Nebula (July 21st), Maladé (July 26th), the ska and rocksteady’s masters The Bluebeaters (July 27th), the Florentine indie singer-songwriter Postino (July 28th), the French Dov’è Liana(July 31st), the return of the La Crus and the Ninotchka (August 7th), the new projects of the people of Salento Ninfa Giannuzzi and Valerio Daniele(August 8th) and Cristiano Metrangolo(Thursday, 22th). To celebrate Ferragosto the SEI will move to Specchia with I Hate my Village and Materazi future club. In Lecce on August 30th, pianist Thomas Umbaca will also perform. The program will be further enriched by other concerts, book presentations, meetings and workshops for adults and children.
Designed, produced and promoted by Coolclub, the SEI Festival is realized with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Region of Puglia, the sponsorship of the Lecce Province and the municipalities of Lecce, Corigliano d’Otranto, Melpignano and Specchia, of the Creative Apulia Productive District and of Assomusica with the support of Garofano Wines and in collaboration with Castello Volante, TicketMaster, A.R.Va srl, Razmataz Live and other public and private entities.
SEI FESTIVAL
Since 2006, SEI – Sud Est indipendente Festival, one of the most important festivals in the musical agenda of all southern Italy, has brought to Salento the most interesting sounds of Italian and international music, offering the public a wide and varied overview of music from punk to songwriting, from rock to ska, from folk to upbeat rhythms, from electronic to the new Italian scene. In the various Salento locations, which have hosted the festival in the first sixteen editions, have featured international artists such as Kings of Convenience, Lee Ranaldo, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Cat Power, Suzanne Vega, Peter Hook & The Light, Skatalites, Joan as Police Woman, Thurston Moore Group, Goran Bregovic & Wedding and Funeral Band, New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble, Zion Train, Leeroy Thornhill, Shame, Finn Andrews, Patrick Watson, J.P. Bimeni & The Black Belts, Giant Sand, Hollie Cook, Gogol Bordello, Mad Professor, Bombino, Russell Leetch (Editors), Arab Strap, Black Midi, Dengue Dengue Dengue, Redi Hasa, the Italian Baustelle, Calcutta, Franco126, Mannarino, Avion Travel, Negrita, Lo Stato Sociale, Brunori Sas, Be Forest, Dente, Nada, Niccolò Fabi, Calibro 35, Diaframma, Any Other, Lorenzo Kruger, Venerus, Ariete, Francesco Bianconi, Cristina Donà, Cristiano Godano, Paolo Benvegnù, Roberto Angelini, Bud Spencer Blues Explosion, Coma_Cose, Galeffi, Eugenio In Via di Gioia, Andrea Poggio, Siberia, Canova, Colombre, Giorgio Poi, Bugo, Daniele Silvestri, Cosmo, Verdena, Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti, Vallanzaska, Teatro degli Orrori, One Dimensional Man, La Municipàl and many others from Puglia, Italy and the rest of the world. Since 2009 it has been supported (through various measures) by the Region of Puglia and since 2017 it has been recognized by the Ministry of Culture’s Single Fund for Performing Arts among festivals worthy of support. In 2017 and 2018, the Festival is also funded by SIAE’s Sillumina call for proposals.
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