Taranto 2023

The live shows that saw Echo & the Bunny­men, Diod­ato, The Murder Cap­it­al, Skunk Anan­sie, Tom Morello and The Cult altern­ate on the stage of the seafront rotunda were unfor­get­table and excit­ing. The show­cases at the Spazi­o­porto by the Apuli­an artists Vienna, Meschino, Lauryyn, Tre­vor, Leea Clem, Ros­anna De Pace, Freud’s Fraud, Salento All Stars and Macro were well atten­ded. This year Med­imex also pro­posed events ded­ic­ated to jazz and author’s music with Nuova Gen­erazione Jazz, a pro­ject pro­moted by the I‑Jazz Asso­ci­ation with the sup­port of MiC, with con­certs by jazz musi­cians Aldo di Caterino, Satoy­ama, Simone Basile Quin­tet , Michele Bon­ifati Emong, Daykoda and Il Tenco Listen — new sing­er-song­writers grow pro­moted by Club Tenco and Puglia Sounds with per­form­ances by Piero Luc­carelli, Checco Curci, Massimo Tor­men and Alessia Tondo. Great par­ti­cip­a­tion also for Kiko Loi­ac­ono A Memori­al, DJ set at the Spazi­o­porto to remem­ber the tour man­ager and pro­du­cer from Bari who passed away in Novem­ber 2022. Fusco Theat­er packed for the Vel­vet Lou Reed Under­ground Tales with Ern­esto Assante, Gino Castaldo and Steve Hunter, Burt Bachar­ach. The big heart of the song with Ern­esto Assante, Gino Castaldo and Simona Molin­ari, Drum Sum­mit with Ern­esto Assante, Tul­lio De Pis­copo and Valentina Magaletti, Lucio Bat­tisti: the birth­day of the great Itali­an song with Ern­esto Assante, Gino Castaldo and the Baus­telle and the queens of Black Music: from Tina Turn­er to Aretha Frank­lin to Bey­on­cé with Gino Castaldo and Ser­ena Bran­cale.

Par­ti­cip­a­tion in the Per­fect Day exhib­i­tions: Lou Reed and Andy War­hol’s New York, sched­uled until 9 July at MArTA, Nation­al Archae­olo­gic­al Museum of Taranto and Vin­tage Drum Show Med­imex 2023, Ant­o­nio Di Lorenzo Drum Col­lec­tion, was not­able. Great par­ti­cip­a­tion also for the Rite, the Idea, the Craft and the Dream, an ori­gin­al work by Roberto San­toro and Blend­ing Pixels cre­ated for Med­imex.