Traditional Sardinian music takes center stage in Malta at an international festival focusing on the folk music of the Mediterranean islands.
Folk groups from various European countries met with groups from the island—particularly from Nuoro, Maracalagonis, and Barbusi—to participate in the festival and perform on the stage set up in Valletta.
The Sardinian groups were particularly applauded by the audience during the event, which had as its common thread not only music but also the sea, an element often considered divisive, but which, at the Maltese Festival, was a common thread and a means of sharing customs and traditions.
Mauro Serra