PeM! Festival: busy calendar with eighteen events in ten municipalities
The music contest arrives, Mauro Pagani, Madreblu, Ditonellapiaga and much more.
PeM! Festival: busy calendar with eighteen events in ten municipalities.
Alessandria, still many events scheduled in 18th edition of “PeM! Festival – Words and Music in Monferrato”, the Piedmontese event of meetings, stories and songs spread across ten municipalities, starting from the leader San Salvatore Monferrato, with the artistic direction of Enrico Deregibus. After Paola Turci, Eugenio Cesaro of Eugenio in Via Di Gioia, Manuel Agnelli, Filippo Gambetta/ Fabio Vernizzi, the homage to Rosetta Loy, Emma Nolde, Matteo Bordone, the Conciorto of Bagini and Carlone, Gene Gnocchi and Flaco Biondini we continue with a dense and decidedly composite programme.
It starts with the spotlight on the new recruits. The 20 September the protagonists will in fact be Camilla Baraggia, Carolina Piola, Linn and Filippo Repetto, finalists of the Pem Music Contest, the music competition for young singer-songwriters of the province of Alessandria. With them, as guests, Nicola Project and Rome, last year's winners. The appointment is at 21pm at the Country Sport Village in Mirabello Monferrato, who is also the organizer of the contest with the collaboration of RadioGold.
On September 22nd, at 21pm, PeM continues in San Salvatore Monferrato with a meeting with Mauro Pagani, and on the 24th, at 18 pm, at the Ecomuseo della Pietra da Cantoni in Cella Monte it will be the turn of a concert/meeting with i Motherblue (Raffaella Destefano). On the 26th at 21pm in San Salvatore it will be Ditonellapiaga's turn.
In total the 2023 edition of the festival includes 18 events which touch San Salvatore Monferrato, Lu Cuccaro Monferrato, Balzola, Valenza, Mirabello Monferrato with the Country Sport Village, Alessandria, Pontestura, Rive, Camagna Monferrato and the Ecomuseo della Pietra da Cantoni with the municipality of Cella Monte. A route between the hills, the rice fields and the Po, in Monferrato, a UNESCO site, and around Monferrato, an hour from Turin, Milano and Genoa.
The billboard suggests music but also literature, entertainment, society. A kind of live journalism with entertainment, which will continue with a meeting with songs with Finger in the plague, a tribute to Lucio Battisti and Pasquale Panella, a meeting/reading with Guido Catalano, an evening with music critics Marinella Venegoni and, in closing, the traditional literary walk dedicated to Rosetta Loy vwith the award ceremony of Pem Writing Contest.
SHEETS OF THE NEXT DATES:
20 September, 21 hours
Country Sport Village (Strada Comunia 30), Mirabello Monferrato (Al)
Pem Music Contest: the final
Second edition of the music competition for young singer-songwriters from the province of Alessandria, at the Country Sport Village in Mirabello, which is also the organizer of the contest. In the final they will compete: Camilla Baraggia, Carolina Piola, Linn and Filippo Repetto. An important opportunity to discover the new musical offerings that the area offers. The winner will be decided by a large jury of journalists and professionals. The two winners of the first edition will perform as guests: Nicola Project and Rome.
22 September, 21 hours
Historic tower park (via Sottotorre), San Salvatore Monferrato (Al)
Meeting with Mauro Pagani
Searching for chords, going in time with others, improvising, this makes a good bluesman. As Pagani he has always tried in his life - in his lives - to move in time with the world, from time to time starting again, revisiting, reinventing. He did the same with his past in an autobiography, “Nine Lives and Ten Blues” (Bompiani), which he will talk about with Enrico Deregibus, between videos and memories.
24 September, 18 hours
Cantoni Stone Ecomuseum, Piazza Vallino, Cella Monte (Al)
Meeting/concert with Madreblu (Raffaella Destefano)
Angels, certainly
Madreblu are a cult band who in the 90s moved between trip hop and melody. Three albums and songs like “Gthe angels”, “Reiko” and “Certainly” have made them remain in the hearts of many. Raffaella Destefano, singer and author of the group, she will perform many of those songs as a trio, with her splendid voice and the telling of a musical story. With her too Luca Urbani (Soerba).
26 September, 21 hours
Historic tower park (via Sottotorre), San Salvatore Monferrato (Al)
Meeting with Totonellapiaga
Not just chemistry
Margherita Carducci, 26 years old, Roman, achieved success in Sanremo with "Chemistry", sung with Rector. But apart from Sanremo, she is one of the strongest female figures in Italian music today, between modern sounds and personality in the lyrics, irony and melancholy, intense vocality and innate ability to hold the stage. We will listen to her in a meeting with Enrico Deregibus with a few songs.
THE WHOLE CALENDAR
20 September, 21pm, Pem Music Contest with Camilla Baraggia, Carolina Piola, Linn, Filippo Repetto, Country Sport Village (Strada Comunia 30), Mirabello Monferrato (Al)
22 September, 21pm, Meeting with Mauro Pagani, Historic Tower Park (via Sottotorre), San Salvatore Monferrato (Al)
September 24th, 18pm, Meeting/concert with Madreblu (Raffaella Destefano), Ecomuseo della Pietra da Cantoni, Piazza Vallino, Cella Monte (Al)
September 26th, 21pm, Meeting with Ditonellapiaga, Historic Tower Park (via Sottotorre), San Salvatore Monferrato (Al)
28 September, 21pm, “Battisti, the other”, tribute to Lucio Battisti and Pasquale Panella, Municipal Culture Center, Piazza XXXI Martiri 1, Valenza (Al)
30 September, 21pm, Meeting/reading with Guido Catalano, Teatro Verdi, Piazza Castello 19, Pontestura (Al)
3 October, 21pm, Meeting with Marinella Venegoni, Multifunctional Hall, Piazza Caduti, San Salvatore Monferrato (Al)
8 October, 16pm, Walk on the dusty streets of Rosetta Loy and Pem Writing Contest award ceremony, Village, Fosseto, San Salvatore Monferrato (Al)
Corrado Tagliabue, mayor of San Salvatore Monferrato, the leading municipality of the event, declares: “Otoday we call it PeM! but his full name contains the word “Monferrato”. For those like me who believe in the territory and in the synergies that can arise from the shared goal of enhancing this wonderful corner of the world, it means a lot. When we started PeM with Riccardo Massola in 2006, we started from San Salvatore and the name of the festival already showed that it wanted to look far ahead. So we involved many municipalities and together we created original opportunities to discover little-known and beautiful corners. This year the festival launches an unprecedented literary "contest" for young newcomers, in addition to the musical one born a year ago and welcomes two new participating municipalities. PeM promises in its name what it offers in reality: the beauty of words, the enchantment of music and the magic of new places to discover".
The festival has now become a point of reference in the Italian musical and cultural panorama, as demonstrated by the attention of the national press and the artists and intellectuals who participated, names such as Diodato, Arturo Brachetti, Malika Ayane, Morgan, Pilar Fogliati, Nada, Samuel, Enrico Ruggeri, Violante Placido, Ron, Zen Circus, Tosca , Luca Sofri, Franco Arminio, Motta, Ghemon, Frankie hi-nrg mc, Luca Barbarossa, Irene Grandi, Guido Davico Bonino, Anita Caprioli, Fabio Troiano, Giovanni Truppi, Marina Rei, Vittorio De Scalzi, Carlo Massarini, Vasco Brondi, Francesco Bianconi dei Baustelle, Ensi, Ernesto Ferrero, Paolo Benvegnù, Giocamifaro, Rosetta Loy, Gianluigi Beccaria, Natalino Balasso, Paolo Bonfanti, Roberta Giallo, Marina Massironi, Davide Longo and many others.
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The PeM! Festival is organized by Municipality of San Salvatore Monferrato with the Municipalities of Valenza, Lu Cuccaro Monferrato, Balzola, Pontestura, Rive, Alessandria, Camagna Monferrato, Mirabello Monferrato and Country Sport Village, Ecomuseo della Pietra da Cantoni with the Municipality of Cella Monte
Artistic direction: Enrico Deregibus
Organizational manager: Riccardo Massola
Design and communication: Corrado Tagliabue
With the contribution of Cassa di Risparmio di Alessandria Foundation, CRT Foundation
Under the patronage of: Province of Alessandria, Piedmont Region, Viticultural Landscapes of Langhe Roero and Monferrato UNESCO World Heritage Site, Alexala
Sponsors and supporters : BBBell, Enrico Beccaria & Figli, Giovanni Ferraris Gioielli, Modugno Pizzeria dal 1974, Modugno 2.0, Angolo Blu, Di Mauro, Enosis
Partners: Sut la dome, Red Thread Committee
Media Partners: RadioGold, Monferrini Photographers Group, Monferratowebtv.it
Festival partners: On the paths of the Gods (Agerola), Books & Blues (Casale Monferrato), Mei Meeting independent labels (Faenza), Bianca d'Aponte Award (Aversa), Bindi Award (Santa Margherita Ligure), Voices for freedom – A song for Amnesty (Rovigo)
“PeM! Words and Music in Monferrato Festival” is a trademark registered by the Municipality of San Salvatore Monferrato.
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