The Quartese summer lights up with concerts, shows, theater and tastings. With the usual formula of events spread throughout the city - from the center to the coast, passing through the peripheral neighborhoods - tested four years ago and also proposed again in the new edition of "La luna sotto casa", the cultural event organized by the Municipality with the Local Authorities Association. The Quartese singing stars will be showcased: Diana Puddu, queen of The Voice Senior, and Gaia Deiana, winner of Sanremo Junior.
And with the first appointment, scheduled for Friday 28 June, it will immediately be a big party. In fact, the contagious enthusiasm of the Seuinstreet Band arrives in the streets of the city where the greatest number of productive activities exist. This year too there will be space for workshops dedicated to food and wine at the Ex Convento dei Cappuccini: five days with Cin Cin Cannonau, the in-depth study dedicated to wine, and then an encore with Sete di Luppoli, with all the secrets of beer. The same location, which has become a point of reference for Quartese culture in recent years, will be among the venues for the traveling concert Cortes in Classic, the project that will bring classical music to the ancient courtyard houses.
In the Via Roma headquarters there will also be two other exceptional events in August: the minitalk "If I say no it's no", created by Maria Francesca Chiappe, journalist, Ambra Pintore, artist, and Claudia Rabellino, lawyer, to tell the story of a year of dawns and sunsets against gender violence, and the Indindara project, which was born from the meeting between the clarinettist, experimental Launedd player and Sardinian jazz composer Zoe Pia and the four voices of the Tenores of Orosei.
Lots of music will affect the central Piazza XVIII April. Starting from the concert by Diana Puddu, resident in the city and fresh from success in the Rai singing talent show "The Voice Senior". To continue with the Classic Music and Soundtracks chamber concert, which will see the String Orchestra on stage performing famous melodies taken from the classical repertoire, and with the Tamurita Trio show in "Love Stories - Homage to Italian Music" , as part of the tour which celebrates the band's 20th anniversary with a space-time, figurative and emotional journey. There will also be space for rock, with an evening between King Howl, a band with blues sounds filtered by musical influences from stoner rock, 70s classic rock, funk and punk, and the Cagliari punk-rock band The Colvins.
And August 9th will be the day of the great Lino Cannavacciolo, who presents the show “Via Napoli”, a journey through five centuries of Neapolitan music. The eclectic singer, who boasts numerous and prestigious collaborations with artists of different musical origins, hosted in the largest and most important national theaters and festivals, will bring to Quartu an explosion of sounds and colors of the Mediterranean, through vibrant virtuosity, hypnotic notes and a stage presence capable of overwhelming the audience, leaving them breathless from the first notes.
The reference location of this edition will also be home to the theatrical show “Portable History of Sardinia. From nuragics to Gigi Riva”, with Flavio Soriga and Luciano Marroccu, with a brief but animated live review of the island's history in its most compelling moments, as well as the final concert which will see the Santosuarez orchestra perform, thrilling lovers of Cuban culture but also anyone who wishes to enjoy a performance full of talent and professionalism.
The novelty this year is the concert in via Monsignor Angioni, designed to also involve the citizens of the peripheral part of the city. An evening that aims to enhance emerging young people and which will also see the performance of the other Quartese talent who has made national headlines this year: Gaia Deiana, winner of Sanremo Junior. With her in the two days open to young musicians MoonFongo, Swllw in the world, The wise, Mielardente, Marta Money and Dan.
And on the coast, as is now tradition, many shows also at Parodi Park. Starting from the Music among the stars evening, retracing the successes of many Italian stars such as De André, Dalla, De Gregori, Cremonini and Pausini, up to Annalisa. And then shows for the very young, with the Teatro del Sottosuolo in Hop Hope Hoplà, staged by the clown duo "I Nipoti di Bernardone", to bring amazement and wonder to the baby audience through simplicity, and the representation "E se i little mice discovered the manholes”, which features a hamster in rebellion against the human race.
«We started this experience in the terminal phase of Covid, in complex times, with the desire to restart this city from a cultural point of view - declared the mayor Graziano Milia -. Through this initiative, in its summer and end-of-year versions, the calls for tenders and the activities spread throughout the city's institutional places, we aimed to satisfy a need that the city had and which for too many years had remained unanswered for many different reasons. We see a growth, an evolution not only of this initiative but also of citizens' attention. Today the restart is a consolidated fact, which has become normal and which is almost no longer news. And that's what we wanted. We continue to choose the path of widespread, inclusive, open events, which take into account the tastes of different segments of the population, with the idea that Quartu is no longer a place closed in itself but a place that also speaks to others. Our goal for the future is to take a further step forward with an infrastructure of the spaces starting from the completion of the New Theater in via Marconi: we are at a good point and we already have a possible form of management in mind, which guarantees its sustainability on an economic level and open all year round. Together with the Theatre, the widespread programming of cultural events in the city will continue to exist, because it represents a tool for collective growth that we cannot give up", concluded the mayor.
Also present at the presentation of the summer program was the councilor for the development of the territory Rossana Perra, together with the president and deputy of the Municipality's Culture commission - Ketty Giua and Laura Perra - Annamaria Loddo and Myriam Quaquero of the Local Authorities association.
