Tag: 2019

  • Taranto 2019

    Taranto 2019

    Med­imex returns to Taranto with a live pro­gram with inter­na­tion­al and ref­er­ence artists from the nation­al scene, show­cases for Apuli­an artists and a detailed homage to Wood­stock.

    In 2019 Med­imex is back in Taranto, one of the most beau­ti­ful towns in our coun­try. The event, open to the gen­er­al pub­lic and music industry pro­fes­sion­als, fea­tured a live shows sched­ule with inter­na­tion­al and lead­ing nation­al artists, show­cases for Puglia artists and a well-struc­tured trib­ute to Wood­stock which included a photo exhib­i­tion on Wood­stock and Jimi Hendrix. Along­side the Meet the Author gath­er­ings with the prot­ag­on­ists of the music scene, Med­imex 2019 hos­ted a num­ber of events addressed to pro­fes­sion­als, artists and music busi­nesses on the pro­spects of the nation­al and inter­na­tion­al mar­ket and the chal­lenges ahead.

    Hence, also in this new edi­tion, Med­imex was once again an oppor­tun­ity to meet fest­iv­al dir­ect­ors, agen­cies, record labels, Itali­an and inter­na­tion­al stake­hold­ers and par­ti­cip­ate in spe­cif­ic events aimed at music pro­fes­sion­als. The pro­gram included pan­els and work­shops, with influ­en­tial experts who hos­ted inter­est­ing debates on some of the cent­ral themes of the music busi­ness fab­ric. And then, again, Puglia Sounds Musi­cari­um, school of music crafts (with a new upgraded ver­sion tar­geted only to pro­fes­sion­als) and the Song­writ­ing Camp, dur­ing which young musi­cians worked side by side with renowned authors and pro­du­cers.

    Among the ven­ues of the 2019 edi­tion, the Rotonda del Lun­go­mare, the Peri­p­ato Gar­dens, the Nation­al Archae­olo­gic­al Museum MArTA, the Fusco Theat­er, the Aragonese Castle, the High­er Insti­tute of Music­al Stud­ies “G. Pais­i­ello”, the Uni­ver­sity and the Lit­er­ary Café Cibo per la Mente.

    Sev­er­al artists were also involved in many talk events, Meet the author gath­er­ings and con­certs. Among them, Liam Galla­gh­er, Piero Pelù, Frankie hi nrg mc, James Senese, Motta, La Muni­cipàl and Patti Smith. Three out­stand­ing exhib­i­tions could also be vis­ited Med­imex 2019: “Wood­stock & Hendrix: The Revolu­tion” with pho­to­graphs by Bar­on Wolman and Don­ald Sil­ver­stein cur­ated by ONO Arte Con­tem­por­anea, hos­ted by the Nation­al Archae­olo­gic­al Museum MarTa. And, again, “Rocks and Shots,” with pho­tos by Henry Rug­geri and “WONDERWALL — AN EXHIBITION ABOUT OASIS” with pho­to­graphs, mem­or­ab­il­ia and souven­irs. Both exhib­i­tions, cur­ated by Puglia Rock, were set up inside Teatro Fusco.

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  • Fog­gia 2019

    Fog­gia 2019

    Four days of music in the Dauni­an cap­it­al with a rich pro­gram of ini­ti­at­ives in the most rep­res­ent­at­ive places of the city, with con­certs, meet­ings with Itali­an and inter­na­tion­al guests, exhib­i­tions, music train­ing activ­it­ies and oth­er col­lat­er­al events.

    Med­imex Spring Fog­gia took place in Fog­gia as a pre­view of the 2019 edi­tion of the fol­low­ing June, in Taranto. Four days of music in the Dauni­an cap­it­al with a rich pro­gram of ini­ti­at­ives in the most rep­res­ent­at­ive places of the city, with con­certs, meet­ings with Itali­an and inter­na­tion­al guests, exhib­i­tions, music train­ing activ­it­ies and oth­er col­lat­er­al events.

    Renzo Arbore with a spe­cial pro­ject and the Brit­ish musi­cian Bry­an Ferry, founder of Roxy Music, were the prot­ag­on­ists of the two free admis­sion con­certs sched­uled in Piazza Cavour. On Fri­day 12 April, Arbore coordin­ated an unpre­ced­en­ted live per­form­ance in which some of the most rep­res­ent­at­ive expo­nents of Itali­an jazz were involved, includ­ing Enrico Rava, Dado Mor­oni with Ros­ar­io Bon­ac­corso and Roberto Gatto, Stefano Di Bat­tista, Enrico Zan­isi and the sing­ers Nicky Nic­olai . On Sat­urday 13 April Bry­an Ferry held the only Itali­an date of his world tour for Med­imex a few days after Roxy Music entered the Rock­’n’Roll Hall of Fame. The two con­certs were opened by Apuli­an artists selec­ted among the par­ti­cipants in the Puglia Sounds Record 2018 call (Young Sec­tion).

    The Spring Edi­tion of Med­imex in Fog­gia also fea­tured a Meet the Author gath­er­ing at Palazzo della Dogana with Pat­tie Boyd, whose photo exhib­i­tion “Pat­tie Boyd and The Beatles”, cur­ated by Ono Arte Con­tem­por­anea, was held from April 7 to May 6.  This amaz­ing exhib­i­tion included forty icon­ic shots through which the Brit­ish pho­to­graph­er “speaks” about her rela­tion­ship with the Beatles and her first two hus­bands, George Har­ris­on and Eric Clapton. The pho­tos, that had already been on dis­play in Dub­lin, Sydney, Toronto, Moscow, Lon­don and the United States, covered a time span of more than thirty years.

    Med­imex has also offered to the town of Fog­gia, with­in the Fondazione dei Monti Uniti, anoth­er import­ant exhib­i­tion entirely ded­ic­ated to the Fend­er world with the Fend­er Vin­tage Museum by Rete di imp­rese Oltre and Apuli­an Gui­tar Star­tup. More than one hun­dred pieces, includ­ing sol­id body string instru­ments and amp­li­fi­ers built between 1951 and 1974, col­lec­ted by Falvio Cam­or­ani for the Prisma Melody Asso­ci­ation, on dis­play in a chro­no­lo­gic­al and philo­lo­gic­al order togeth­er with cata­logues, posters, doc­u­ments, mem­or­ab­il­ia and vin­tage pho­to­graphs, for an unmiss­able jour­ney into the golden age of the com­pany foun­ded by Leo Fend­er.

    Among the guests of the Meet the Author gath­er­ings, Pat­tie Boyd, Ex-Otago, Renzo Arbore, Noemi, Ermal Meta, Nina Zilli and Pier­davide, inter­viewed by Ern­esto Assante. Finally, the spe­cial atmo­sphere of the “Rock Class” at the Teatro del Fuoco, where as part of the ini­ti­at­ives ded­ic­ated to the Beatles, Ern­esto Assante and Gino Castaldo hos­ted the event a “Beatles Night 1960–1969” with spe­cial guest Klaus Voor­mann.

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