History of Folkest – 2014 Edition
Closing the lines and starting again with renewed enthusiasm, the Folkest staff has put on the table a festival of strong impact that has ranged from tradition to the most stringent innovations, without forgetting the author’s song.
The numbers of Folkest 2014 were all respected:
28 locations reached
45 musical groups
198 artists
24 technicians
… and the extraordinary people of Folkest, the affectionate public that has been following him for thirty-five years.
There was really something for everyone at Folkest 2014;
the popular festival, as in the preview with Vinicio Capossela and the Banda della Posta which was hosted at Villa Manin; the popular song of the author in Capodistria with Edoardo De Angelis, for once without Lella; the folk prog of the stainless Osanna led by Lino Vairetti and David Jackson; the twenty-years-old Modena City Ramblers combat-folk; the fascinating voice of Cristiano De André; the psychedelic country rock of the Branco Selvaggio; the incursions into the Mediterranean of the Daramad; the youthful folk-rock of the Aosta Valley L’Orage; the colors and rhythms of Sicily of the Unavantaluna, winners of the Parodi Prize in Cagliari; the Bevano Est; the Morrigan’s Wake; the very young Northern Irish talents Le Chéile; and to end up the Elvenking dreamy folk metal, finally prophets at home.
Really thick was the regional patrol that saw the debut of Serena Finatti, in the odor of a new record with great potential.
And then a flurry of very high-quality groups from the Suonare@Folkest competition, which saw the presence of artists of absolute level.
Artists Folkest 2014
Alberto Sergi & Arakne Group, Italy
Ambra Pintore, Sardinia
Bandajorona, Lazio
Bevano Est, Italy
Branco Selvaggio, Italy
Capitano Tutte a Noi, Italy
Carantan, Friuli
Celtic Pixie, Italy
Ciacciabanda Street Band, Italy
Cristiano De Andre, Italy
Daramad, Italy
DiaDuit, Italy
Domenico Castaldo & Figurelle Orkestar, Italy
Edoardo De Angelis – “Non Ammazzate Anna”, Italy
Elvenking, Italy
Emanuele Graffiti, Italy
Ensemble Sangineto, Italy
Francesca Gallo, Veneto
Ginger Leigh & Patrice Pike, Texas
Giovanni Giusto, Veneto
Giuseppe Spedino Moffa, Molise
Green Clouds, Italy
Hubert Dohr & Edgar Unterkirschner, Carinthia
L’Orage, Valle d’Aosta
Luna E Un Quarto, Friuli
Le Chéile, Ireland
Modena City Ramblers, Italy
Mlin, Slovenia
Morrigan’s Wake, Italy
Nosisà, Friuli
Osanna & David Jackson, Italy
Riccardo Tesi and Banditalia, Italy
Serea Finatti, Italy
Simona Colonna, Piedmont
Sugar Ray Dogs, Italy
To Loo Loose, Italy
Vinicio Capossela and the Banda Della Posta, Italy
Unavantaluna, Sicily
Vruja, Istria