MUSICONNECT ITALY Italian World Beat represents, supports and promotes italian music professionals abroad playing a pivotal role in the development of partnerships and cultural exchanges. Mostly focused on World Music/ Ethno/Jazz projects, IWB’ aim is to fill the gap between italian music professionals and the international music industry. CONTACT GENERAL MANAGEMENT MANAGEMENT & LABEL DIRECTOR MAIN OFFICE COORDINATOR & INDEPENDENT ARTISTS FAIR MANAGEMENT Fabio Scopino Davide Mastropaolo Stefano Scopino Mobile +39 3921588758 Mobile +39 3348366202 Mobile +39 3319172411 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] REFERENT FOR BALKAN AND MIDDLE EAST AREA REFERENT FOR NORDIC AND BALTIC COUNTRIES Sara Gigante - Belgrade (SE) Eric van Monckhoven Agency Charmworks (Instambul) Mobile +39 3662898492 / +38 1638491970 +39 3312068969 [email protected] [email protected] INDEX Ca_Musica pag 22 Balistreri - Grosso - Nucera pag 38 Calabria Sona pag 23 Banditaliana pag 39 Adriatico Mediterraneo pag 2 Folktrip pag 24 Luca Bassanese pag 40 Alkantara pag 3 Graf s.r.l. pag 25 Bella Ciao pag 41 Altomonte Rock Festival pag 4 Icii consulting pag 26 C4 Trio pag 42 Ariano Folk Fest pag 5 Music 4 You pag 27 Calabria Orchestra pag 43 Au Desert pag 6 Musicastrada pag 28 Cordas Et Cannas pag 44 Capo Festival pag 7 Tourbilion pag 29 Luisa Cottifogli pag 45 Danise pag 46 Carnevale Del Pollino pag 8 AGENCIES Elva Lutza - Ester Formosa pag 47 Le Castella Tarantella Week pag 9 Foja pag 48 Diatonic Festival pag 10 Ugo Gangheri pag 49 Ethnos Festival pag 11 Agualoca Records pag 30 Grace In Town pag 50 Florence Folks Festival pag 12 Full Heads pag 31 Ilaria Graziano - Francesco Forni pag 51 Musicastrada pag 13 Visage pag 32 Yehya Khalil pag 52 Musicultura World Fest pag 14 Lame Da Barba pag 53 Paleariza Festival pag 15 LABEL La Maschera pag 54 Popolare Italiano pag 16 Mezcla De Sonidos Project pag 55 Premio Manente pag 17 Blogfoolk pag 33 Gaia Mobilij pag 56 Montoya pag 57 Quarrata Folk Fest pag 18 MEDIA Orchestra Bottoni pag 58 Suoni Del Mare pag 19 Rebis pag 59 Suoni Mobili pag 20 Stefano Saletti E Banda Ikona pag 60 Taranta E Dintorni pag 21 Acoustic Tarab Alchemy pag 34 Sangennarobar pag 61 Agricantus pag 35 Saodaj’ pag 62 Emanuele Ammendola pag 36 Giovanni Seneca pag 63 Atse Tewodros Project pag 37 Traindeville pag 64 FESTIVAL / VENUE ARTISTS ARTISTS festival / venue FESTIVAL ADRIATICO MEDITERRANEO contact website www.adriaticomediterraneo.eu art director Giovanni Seneca +39 335 81 75 803 email [email protected] GIOVANNI SENECA about The Festival Adriatico Mediterraneo takes place since 2007 every year at the end of august in Ancona. The festival wants to contribute to the depiction of new sceneries of integration and cohesion by establishing a dialogue betwe- en the countries with a focus in the mediterranean area. Many important Italian and international artists have been involved in the festival. The idea is to create a widespread confrontation and cultural exchange to repre- 2 sent the manifold artistic expressions, but most of all to realize and strengthen networks of cultural cooperation. festival / venue ALKATARA contact 26 LUGLIO – 5 AUGUST 2018 CATANIA – ZAFFERANA ETNEA – MASCALI – BRONTE – MILO ALKANTARA FEST International folk and world music festival – XIV edition CONCERTI — YOGA — WORKSHOP — BODY PERCUSSION DANZA — SPETTACOLI PER BAMBINI — EXCURSIONI ETNA-MARE website CIBO E VINO… e altro ancora WILD MARMALADE (Australia)WOR (Belgium) SANTA TARANTA (Puglia/Australia) FROMSEIER HOCKINGS (Denmark) www.alkantarafest.it GOLOSA LA ORQUESTA (Chile) KEREKES BAND (Hungary)OI DIPNOI (Sicily) MARIA KECK & DE COBRE (Hungary/Spain) LOMB (Sicily)SI MULLUMBY (Australia) SANGUMIT (Calabria/Sicily/Iran)LE MATRIOSKE (Sicily) PATUNCHA (Italy) art director DAVIDE CAMPISI (Sicily) alkantarafest.it giulombardo.com Mario Gulisano +39 349 51 49 330 email [email protected] ALKANTARA 3 about Alkantara Fest was founded in 2004 in the area of the river Alcantara named by the Arabs ‘Al qantarah’. The realization of the Alkantara Fest is like an imaginary journey throughout history, nature and different traditions. Our aim is to demonstrate how Sicily, such a big melting-pot of styles, influences, races and cultures, can be deeply and intimately connected to an ideal thread to each different European popular tradition. festival / venue ALTOMONTE ROCK FESTIVAL contact website www.calabriasona.com referent Giuseppe Marasco +39 333 62 73 044 email [email protected] CALABRIASONA about Altomonte Rock Festival was born in the 90s from an idea of some friends with a great passion for rock music, first called Rock Progressiv, has always been able to count on the performances of internationally renowned artists such as Anekdoten, PFM and Bronze Ballet. From 2001 to today, the organizers have given birth to twinning with partner festivals both in Italy and abroad: the University of Saint Petersburg in Russia, Munich, Frankfurt in Germany, Lille in 4 France and, lastly, in series , "Italian Music Festival" in Stuttgart, Germany.- festival / venue ARIANO FOLK FEST contact website www.arianofolkfestival.it art director Francesco Fodarella email [email protected] about ARIANO FOLK FESTIVAL Over 350 artists in 23 years, more than 1000 hours of music, 36 nations invited on stage, 10 collateral stages each year. These are the numbers of Ariano Folkfestival, one of the most interesting European events dedicated to World Music. In South Italy – in the province of Avellino – just few miles from Naples, on the amazing hills between Campania, Puglia and Basilicata, the festival is a stage for the best sounds from all over world and beyond. 5 festival / venue FESTIVAL AU DESERT contact website www.fabbricaeuropa.net art director Maurizio Busia +39 333 62 73 044 email [email protected] FABBRICA EUROPA about Festival au Désert in Florence is a multicultural music project that since 2010 has created a network for contemporary creation among Africa, the Mediterranean and Europe, starting from the collaboration between Festival au Désert in Essakane (Mali) and Fondazione Fabbrica Europa. Since then the project has favoured a journey to and from Africa, a new Africa that is able to innovate without denying its own story, becoming a “meeting space among cultures” in 6 Florence. Artistic director: Maurizio Busìa. festival / venue CAPO FESTIVAL contact website www.calabriasona.com referent Giuseppe Marasco +39 333 62 73 044 email [email protected] about CALABRIASONA The event of music, culture, craftsmanship and excellent food and wine of Calabria organized by the Tourism Depart- ment of the Municipality of Ricadi. The CAPO FESTIVAL is Mediterranean music, unique because the territory in which it is held is unique. CAPO VATICANO is one of the most fascinating places in Italy a few steps from Tropea, where the famous Red Onion is born and in the territory of Nduja and Pecorino del Monte Poro. A unique sea and an inimitable artistic and enogastronomic offer do the rest. Capo Festival flavors, sounds and rhythms of the Mediterranean. 7 festival / venue CARNEVALE DEL POLLINO contact website www.calabriasona.com referent Giuseppe Marasco +39 333 62 73 044 email [email protected] CALABRIASONA about This is the first Carnival of the Pollino (today of Castrovillari) as well as International Folklore Festival, which dates back to 1959. Over the years it has grown to be counted among the 10 most important in Italy: the winning proposal, so as to have reached 60 ° edition, was to combine masks and folklore, a winning combination of enormous popular participation that still characterize it. In the last two years, the Carnival has also taken advantage of the artistic 8 collaboration of the Calabria Sona network. festival / venue LE CASTELLA TARANTELLA WEEK contact website www.calabriasona.com referent Giuseppe Marasco +39 333 62 73 044 email [email protected] about CALABRIASONA Le Castella Tarantella Week is an event that, among music, songs, entertainment, concerts, internships, courses and many afternoon events brings popular culture in one of the most beautiful tourist contexts in Italy. In the shadow of the Aragonese Castle, the winning formula is to combine the great tourist attraction of Le Castella with many events that promote and enhance our popular culture, 5 days that open the tourist season focusing on intangible resources such as our tradition, the our music and our culture. Appointment at June. 9 festival / venue DIATONIC FESTIVAL contact website www.calabriasona.com referent Giuseppe Marasco +39 333 62 73 044 email [email protected] CALABRIASONA about Everything starts from an instrument: the diatonic accordion that in Calabria represents the prince of musical instru- ments. The artistic director is the maestro Antonio Grosso is now a point of reference in Italy. The idea of the Diatonic Festival is to create a lasting festival / master class over the years. A reference point that can combine study, growth and practice with an event in which to listen and interact with internationally renowned masters, but also to try their hand at popular Calabrian music. We have also thought for a moment that it is an attraction for tourist flows and for 10 the families of the participants. festival / venue ETHNOS FESTIVAL contact website www.festivalethnos.it art director Gigi Di Luca +39 3355269754 email [email protected] about ETHNOS FESTIVAL