Ten thousand at Gran Bal Trad And from 21 off to Subsonica

Vialfrè. Flattering results for the international folk festival that ended on Sunday Druella: “We are very happy, after two years of hiatus a good shot of joy”

VIALFRÈ

There was a feeling of imminent success in the air, and the numbers in the end proved right to those who, cautiously optimistic, hoped to the last that they were right. Ten thousand visitors from all over Europe, this is the definitive balance: the twentieth edition of the Gran Bal trad, staged in the park of Pianezze, in Vialfrè, last week until Sunday, did not betray the expectations of the organizers. A desired result despite having had to take into account the resumption of infections from Covid and the prescriptions of the Metropolitan City made for the protection of a rare species of toad whose habitat is located right near Lake Paulet, prescriptions that have placed some limits on the area used. camping, but overcome with a great sense of responsibility even by the public. “This good result – explained the head organizer, finally relaxed, Antonio Druella – repays us for the great anxieties we experienced in the two years of stoppage due to the pandemic, and gives us new energy to move forward, always respecting the environment. “. In addition to the hundreds of artists from all over Italy – from Sardinia to Puglia, from Marche to Emilia Romagna, from Veneto to Lombardy -, and then from Ireland, Spain, Northern Europe, France, the Gran Bal Trad offered thousands of fans also the best artisan production of musical instruments, mostly used for the music protagonists of the festival. And so, turning among the gazebos, you could see producers of French bagpipes, harp, tambourines, flutes at work, up to the stand of the luthier Massimo Enrico, who produces his instruments in the laboratory near the ancient tower of the thirteenth century, symbol of Roman. In one of the gazebos it was possible to appreciate some diatonic accordions produced in the Marche artisan workshop Castagnari di Recanati, Giacomo Leopardi’s land of the Infinite. “Our family – explained the master craftsmen of the Marche – in recent decades has produced only a few dozen unique pieces made from the special wood that we import from the Dakota layer, in the United States, which over the years we have had the honor of manufacturing for many great artists, including Sting and Lucio Dalla ». Now the Pianezze area is preparing to host thousands of children for the ninth year for the Apolide: nature, music & art festival. From 21st to 24th July there will be four days dedicated to the great names in music, from Turin’s Subsonica to our Cosmo, to name just two. The opening night will be driven by the Subsonica, confirming the growing vocation, which began twenty years ago, to be one of the summer festivals with concerts of absolute first-rate on the Italian scene. –