(31 May 2016) A major event capable of bringing music everywhere: squares, streets, museums, archaeological parks and Italian hospitals, but also Consulates, Embassies and Italian Cultural Institutes abroad. June 21 will celebrate music festival promoted by the Ministry of Heritage and Cultural Activities and Tourism in collaboration with the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Education, Defence, Justice and Health, ANCI and the Conference Regions, and with the contribution of SIAE. Also involved are local authorities, industry associations, and local organisations allowing soloists, choirs, orchestras, groups and music bands, Italian artists, foreigners and new Italian performers to perform in more than one hundred member cities. An international event that was also celebrated in Nice, Marseille, Zagreb, Barcelona, Washington, Los Angeles, Montevideo, Beijing, Hong Kong, Bangkok. And in Vienna, Beijing, Monaco, Belo Orizonte, Dubrovnik, Paris, Cairo and Beirut. In the programme of the Italian Cultural Institute of Barcelona is a concert by Massimiliano Larocca and accordionist Riccardo Tesi. In Dubrovnik, however, Maestro Roberto Micconi will be performing organ music by Venetian composers from the 16th and 18th centuries in a concert sponsored by the ICI in Zagreb. Music will also be the focus in Beirut, where the ICI organised the concert of the Italian trio Jazzmin, and in Belo Horizonte, where, in collaboration with the Museum do Clube da Esquina, a show titled “O Clube da Esquina encontra to Itália” will be performed with the Italo-Brazilian artist Melissa Freire who will perform Italian songs by artists linked to Brazil such Sergio Bardotti, Blanche Dubois, Ivano Fossati, Fiorella Mannoia, and Bruno Lauzi. (Sip)
Music, Embassies and Cultural Institutes celebrate the European Festival
