EVENTS OF THE DAY MAG MELL – SAN GIOVANNI D’ANTRO – PULFERO TIME 19.30 Folkest will stage on saturday 23rd in San Giovanni d’Antro – Pulfero presso la Grotta d’Antro (time 19.30) with the irish group Mag Mell formed by the brothers Méabh and Tiarnán Smyth (violin, guitar and voice) grown at the Armagh Pipers Club’s school, important culture istitution...Read More
First studio album, from 2008, for the legendary american folk singer, composer, musician and activist. Produced by Joe Henry (winner of three Grammy Award which collaborated with important artists like Lisa Hannigan, Allen Touissant, Elvis Costello, Solomon Burke, Ani Di Franco…), with the interpretation of some pieces written by Tom Waits, Josh Ritter, Anohni, Joe...Read More
Like every year, the long caravan of the Folkest Award-Alberto Cesa, the competition in search of new talent that will perform at the next edition of Folkest, started in Arezzo. It is also possible to get an award of fifteen thousand euros from the Nuovo Imaie for the realization of a tour. In 2004, the...Read More
Autumn has started and like every year for fifteen years is time for selection. Suonare@Folkest2018 – Alberto Cesa Award contest’s is growing up thanks also to the collaboration of important national media that will support the vote in the second phase. The purpose of this contest is not only the challenge between artists but also...Read More
Orcolat ’76 of Simone Cristicchi and Francesca Gallo, written by Simone Cristicchi and Simona Orlando. Production: Folkest Simone Cristicchi in this performances tell us the Friuli earthquake happened in 1976. Simone Cristicchi and Simona Orlando are the authors of this project that will go on stage Friday 15th of September in Gemona del Friuli cathedral....Read More
Awaited for Wednesday 15 th of November at Candoni Theatre in Tolmezzo, will perform Peter Hammill, the historical voice of Van del Graaf Generator, one of the principal artists of progressive rock trend. Peter Hammill was born in London in the 1948 and during the Seventies, he obtained attention in the international rock scene as...Read More
39th Edition – from the 22th of June to the 27th of July More than sixty events will be showcased during the 2017 edition, starting on Thursday 22nd of June in Fiume Veneto (parco casa dello studente, 09.15 p.m.) with Heron Valley, a Scottish folk band from Argyll. Playing in Italy for the first time...Read More
Ospedaletto (Gemona del Friuli) – Parco Stroili, 9.15 p.m Artists from all over the world have been giving new life to the many stages of Folkest, the event that explores music and culture from all over the world, ever since 1979. This year, the festival will start on June 22nd and end on July 10th....Read More
39TH FOLKEST EDITION – From June 22th to July 10th …with previews from the end of April and the beginning of May, and concerts till the end of July. FOLKEST: THIRTYNINE EDITIONS OF THE FESTIVAL THAT EXPLORES MUSIC AND CULTURES FROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD. PREVIEWS: EUGENIO FINARDI’S CONCERT ON SATURDAY 29th APRIL TAKES PLACE IN TOLMEZZO (TEATRO...Read More
VOTE – VOTE – VOTE You can decide who will be featured at Folkest Folkest in Udine Castle on July 4th. Vote here: https://www.facebook.com/events/436864029981790/?active_tab=discussion In the pictures: Domo Emigrantes, winners of Suonare@Folkest in 2016. Read More
First time in Palermo for Suonare@Folkest music award, thanks to Teatro Jolly and to the organization of Francesco Giunta and Edoardo De Angelis. Jury leaded by Giovanni Ninfa, Artistic Director of Jolly Theatre, with Gigi Razete, journalist of La Repubblica newspaper, Giovanni Giunta, folksinger, Giuseppe Greco, musician and Giuseppe Paternostro, professor of Glottology at University...Read More
For the first time Suonare@Folkest – Premio Alberto Cesa music award arrives in Cervasca, Cuneo County in Piedmont, thanks to the Cervasca commune and to Pro Loco Cervasca. Three bands played in a a cold and wet piedmontese evening, at the end this was the result: the winner is Valeria Caucino, folksinger from Biella, with...Read More
