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

EVEN in 2017 at La Fontana ai ciliegi in San Pietro in Cariano, Verona County, we had two live contests of Suonare@Folkest music award. Not easy indeed the decision of the jury, leaded by Nicola Cossar, Folk Bulletin Director, with Enrico de Angelis, Alessandro Nobis, Andrea Del Favero and Gianni Martin: very high quality (luckily)...Read More

We are now in 2017, thirty-eight years after the first time Folkest propose good music in Friuli and in Istria. Thirty-eight years of adventures, beauty, problems, discoveries and truth be told a great love for music and popular tradition. Our will to convey this love of ours compelled us to write the new Folkest web...Read More