Selinunte Sunset Sounds 2024

• Alessandro Venza:guitar, vocals
• Letizia Guastella:saxophone
• Saro Castiglia:bass
• Manfredi Crocivera:drums

From Turkey, the Balkans, Iceland and Timbuktu: Pola! The band with the exclamation mark that is pronounced while dancing. Musical genre: Middle East, Eastern Europe, Mediterranean and central Palermo.

• Daniele Tesauro:accordion
• Giacomo Di Domenico:tapan, darbuka, percussions
• Dario Compagna:clarinet

Active for several years, this Palermo group proposes a rich and evocative repertoire of Eastern European and Balkan music, linked to the theme of nomadism and the encounter between different cultures, coming from the Jewish and Gypsy traditions, re-proposed not in a strictly philological key but relived and reworked in an original way by pouring in the aromas, warmth and colour of the historic markets of Palermo, crossing the starting materials with the brightness of the Sicilian and Mediterranean tradition and with the suggestions of the different musical genres from which the musicians come: jazz, rock, funky, ska, swing manouche… All combining the fun and informal spirit of the street musician with the rigor of research and the brilliant virtuosity of the performance.

• Luca Mazzola:guitar, vocals
• Alberto Petrigno:double bass, vocals
• Federico Chisesi:drums

The Two Giants Trio started in 2017 as a side project of the R’n’B combo HalfChicken: their sound draws inspiration from the swing of the vocal groups of the 30s and 40s and from their passion for the songs of Fats Waller, the Cats and the Fiddle, Slim Gaillard and Slam Stewart. With the vocal harmonies and the essentiality of their instruments, their show retraces the steps of the music that helped shape the rock’n’roll in the 50s.

• Sebastian Nicolas Torres:vocals, classical and electric guitar, flute
• Giuseppe Lana:accordion, backing vocals
• Alessio Oliva:congas, cajon
• Mattia Franchina:double bass, backing vocals

The Pacha Kama group is the result of a musical research that aims to rediscover traditional musical genres of South America, through an engaging repertoire that takes the best of each South American musical tradition: Argentine, Peruvian, Chilean, Bolivian, Ecuadorian, Colombian, Venezuelan, Uruguayan, Cuban music. Pacha Kama is an adaptation of Pachacàmac – creator deity worshipped by the pre-Inca maritime population of Peru, who through music moves and vivifies the Earth.

• Fernando Fyaman:guitar, vocals
• Manfredi Crocivera:drums
• Saro Castiglia:bass

Conceived by singer-songwriter and musician Fernando Fyaman, the Brasilidades project has found top-level musicians in the Sicilian region, who have agreed to undertake this journey and contribute musically with the most beautiful “Mediterranean notes” in exchange for being infected with the rhythmic mix of Brazilian popular music.
The shows feature rearranged interpretations of great names in Brazilian popular music, such as Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Djavan and Geronimo Santana, as well as songs written by Fyaman himself, with the aim of offering the spectator a joyful, vibrant, loving experience: in other words, a genuinely Brazilian experience.

• Marco Gioé:guitar, vocals
• Claudio Trapani:keyboards
• Alberto Petrigno:double bass, vocals
• Federico Chisesi:drums

A journey between r’n’b and rockabilly, still rejecting precise classifications and definitions: the Marco J and the Jaywalkers project seeks a hybrid identity that moves, walks, absorbs and gives back, always remaining, deliberately, a little undisciplined.

• Filippo Schifano:trumpet
• Carlo Brucato:guitar
• Damiano Vitrano:double bass

Zig Zag trio offers a jazz and latin repertoire enriched by original compositions. The aim of the trio is the continuous search for interplay, so as to create an extemporaneous dialogue between the musicians.

• Mojca Zupančič:synthesizers
• Eduardo Doreste:soprano saxophone
• Ruggero Di Luisi:drums, live electronics
• Steve Abbott:bass guitar
• Andrea Ardizzone:trumpet

A bunch of soloists who dialogue in a flow of improvisation (un)controlled by each one’s sensitivity.

• Letizia Guastella:saxophone
• Saro Castiglia:bass
• Elisa Zimbardo:guitar
• Manfredi Crocivera:drums
• Alessandro Venza:guitar, vocals

Naäm is a project born in 2019, initially as a busker band, from the union of five students at the Jazz Department of Palermo Conservatory, and aims to combine purely ethnic music with experimental sounds, through the meeting of electric instruments and the use of effects.

• Mauro Cottone:double bass
• Joe Santoro:drums
• Francesco Patti:saxophone

Mauro Cottone lives in Amsterdam where he has been working for years as a double-bass player of improvised, jazz and contemporary music.
On this occasion he will play with a typical formation of the most creative and improvisation-friendly jazz, the so-called harmony-less, that is, without a harmonic instrument such as the piano or guitar. He will be joined by two of the most interesting musicians of the Sicilian jazz scene, Francesco Patti, saxophonist, and Joe Santoro, drummer.

• Andrea Filosa:guitar
• Flavio Schifano:bass
• Corrado Macca:drums

Spots is a trio from Palermo, presenting a mix of funk and soul with a bare and direct sound, in a repertoire that varies between covers and unreleased songs.

• Simona Di Gregorio:vocals, accordion, guitar, tambourine
• Giorgio Maltese:vocals, mandoline, marranzano, friscalettu, tambourine, bagpipe, castanets
• Pasqualino Cacciola:guitar, mandola, tambourine

Casentuli trio offers a wide and varied repertoire of traditional Sicilian music and songs, the result of years of field research and consultation of ethnomusicological collections. The study and performance of this precious material are a contribution to the recovery of a rich musical universe, now forgotten in favor of the repertoire of folk groups: a melting pot in which songs inspired by Mediterranean traditions (North Africa, Spain, Greece, the Balkans) and dances of Northern European inspiration (scottish, polkas, country dances, mazurkas) coexist, melodies of life and work in the fields (friscaletti, accordions, bagpipes, castanets, marranzano, azzarinu) and of life in the workshop (mandolins, mandolas and guitars from the barbershops), songs of love and disdain, of grape harvests and sulphur mines, of harvests and prison, of sailors and gypsum quarrymen.

• Francesco Guaiana:guitar
• Joe Santoro:drums
• Gabrio Bevilacqua:double bass

The trio offers a repertoire of original compositions by Francesco Guaiana together with some pieces taken from the jazz repertoire of authors such as Monk, Frisell and Swallow, through a calibrated use of effects without ever neglecting the importance of melodic development and interaction between the musicians.