Napoli World 2022 will take place December 7-10 in Naples, Italy. December at the Fondazione Foqus, the Teatro Nuovo, the Hotel Oriente, located in the suggestive Quartieri Spagnoli (Spanish District) and will conclude with a major event at the Teatro Mediterraneo.
The event is envisioned as a world music festival, an important live gathering aimed at musicians and professionals in the music field, although it will be open to the city. Davide Mastropaolo and Fabio Scopino, founders of Italian World Beat, are the artistic directors.
The initiative, funded and promoted by the Municipality of Naples as part of the “Naples City of Music” project, is strongly supported by the Mayor of Naples and his delegate for the music and audiovisual industry Ferdinando Tozzi. In line with the guidelines of “Naples City of Music”, Naples World 2022 aims to enhance the musical professionalism of the area through an internationalization process, developing the export of the city’s musical activities and networking them with the various realities in the music world. From this point of view, the showcase festival makes it possible to activate lasting cultural and entrepreneurial relationships with prestigious institutions from all over the world.
In addition to offering an exclusive showcase for artists and local operators, Naples World 2022 aims to become a national reference over the years, with the awareness that the city of Naples has the potential to represent a focus of attraction for the music sector, especially in the world music field, proposing itself as the cultural capital of the Mediterranean and the M.E.N.A. and as a driving force for economic, cultural and social development through the universal language of music.
The showcase festival and b2b meeting
Participation in the events is free of charge. All that is needed is to book through the official website or, for users and enthusiasts, at this link, linktr.ee/napoliworld.
The busy artistic program includes promotional concerts for established and emerging artists, the latter selected with a call to action that saw the participation of around 200 candidates. The business-to-business work program is enriched by panels and networking for national and international delegates.
These initiatives are open to everyone (booking agencies, management, festivals, media, enthusiasts) and those who want to participate can do so freely through open registration via the official website musiconnect-italy.com
More than 30 delegates and partners from Europe, Asia, North and South America more than Italian delegates will take part in Naples World 2022. Among these are festival directors, potential buyers of musical projects and institutional representatives with whom operators in the Neapolitan music sector will be able to develop constructive partnerships.
The program includes 17 live showcases, two workshops and two panels with the best representatives of Neapolitan musical culture and entrepreneurship.
Wednesday, December 7 (from 10.00 pm at the Foqus Foundation) will be a day dedicated to traditional music with live performances by Tammurianti World Project, Vesevo and Ars Nova Napoli.
Thursday, December 8 (from 9.30 pm at the Teatro Nuovo) will be a day dedicated to Neapolitan song with the live showcases of Suonno D’ Ajere and Raiz & Radicanto. On the other hand, in the morning (from 10.00 at the Foqus Foundation) there will be a panel on Neapolitan songs with musicologist Pasquale Scialò, journalist Federico Vacalebre and the director of the Trianon-Viviani Theater and actress Marisa Laurito.
The first B to B meetings/networking between delegates and operators are scheduled from 12:15 and follow (between 15:00 and 18:30) the concerts of emerging artists selected through the call to action. The afternoon will be closed by the first international guest: El Pelujáncanu, the Spaniards will perform in collaboration with the MUM (Jornadas Internacionales de la Música de Extremadura) based in Mérida, Spain.
Friday, December 9 (at 10.00) begins with the meeting at Palazzo San Giacomo between international delegates and Italian businesses with Mayor Gaetano Manfredi to reiterate and expand the guidelines of the “Naples City of Music” project and the synergies indeed. The day will continue (at the Foqus Foundation, at 12:30) with a panel that will pay tribute to Gigi Di Luca’s Ethnos festival, the longest-running world music & culture event that has been taking place in the Vesuvian province for twenty-seven years. In the afternoon (3.00-6.30 pm) other showcases will follow with the artists selected by the call to action plus an international guest who will be Moroccan artist Sonia Noor who will perform a concert by virtue of the collaboration with the Visa for Music festival meeting in Rabat. In the evening (from 9.00 pm at the Teatro Nuovo) the concerts of the songwriter Flo and the historic singer-songwriter Enzo Gragnaniello.
On Saturday, December 10(from 10.00) the event will end with business-to-business meetings dedicated to professionals at Hotel Oriente while the final evening will take place at the Mediterranean Theater (from 20.30) with the concert by Lucibela, the third international guest who will appear thanks to the collaboration with the AME (Atlantic Music Expo in Cape Verde). The trailblazing Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare will follow.
Artistic directors Fabio Scopino and Davide Mastropaolo stated: “Napoli World represents a great opportunity for our city and for its artists and operators: we hope it will turn into an unmissable appointment in the years to come on the agendas of professionals from all over the world , as happened for years in Marseille with the Babel Med.”
(headline image: Raiz e Radicanto – Photo by Stefano Parisi)
Author: World Music Central News Room
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