Not only Concertone of San Giovanni in Rome. May 1st will also live on the notes of the Taranto concert. On the stage of the Archaeological Park of the Greek walls – from now entitled to Massimo Battista, a former Ilva worker and among the founders of the organizing committee, who disappeared on 7 October 2024 due to a tumor – Paolo Rossi, Giancane, the Teatro degli Orrori, Pop X, Lamant, motta with his band, Fido Guido & Rockin'Roots Band, Denaldo, La Niña, Ascanio will rise. Celestini, Roberto Angelini with Rodrigo d'Erasmo, and Acquachiara, winner of the music prize against the mafias.
Special guest Tommy Cash, the rapper Estonian competing at the Eurovision with his “expressly stained” surreal song. In line-upalso two top names of the international electronic scene: Fideles and Riva Starr, who will propose a set of two hours evoking the atmosphere of the great European festivals, from Berlin to Zurich.
The conduct of the event is entrusted to Andrea Rivera, Martina Martorano, Serena Tarabini and the multi -instrumental songwriter Naip. The artistic direction is signed by Michele Riondino, Antonio Diodato and Roy Paci, who reiterate: “May 1st of Taranto is more fundamental today. Because it is free, because it is thinking, because for over ten years it has been carrying out values of struggle and awareness, starting from Taranto but embracing a universal vision that unites activisms from all over the world”.
Also this year the music will be a vehicle for the social and political battles that animate the event. The 2025 edition marks the fiftieth anniversary of Amnesty International Italy and adheres to the #R1pud1a campaign, launched by Emergency against the war, with reference to article 11 of the Constitution. “Hosting both realities – underline the organizers – means confirming that this is an anti -fascist stage, which refuses all forms of discrimination and every war, and claims universal rights for all humanity”.
Among the planned interventions: the curators of the collection of poems for Gaza – their cry is my voice; Luisa Morgantini, president of Assopacepalestina, with a video message from Gaza; Giulio Calella, director of Edizioni Alegre; the GKN factory collective; the teacher Stefania Barca (University of Santiago de Compostela); Free against the mafias; Ribelle Quarticciolo; Latest generation; XR – EXTINTION REBELLION; the #SiamoAitolidicoda Committee in defense of the workers of the show; precarious of the CNR; the no tav and no tap movements; Francesca Corbo for Amnesty International; Simonetta Gola for Emergency.
“We will face – declare the spokespersons of the citizens' committee and free and thinking workers – the dynamics of domination, environmental disaster and climatic denial, together with all those communities that, like us, undergo a system that pretext profit for life”.
Finally, the thought returns to the former Ilva: “We continue to be alongside the workers to fight a system that feeds on crushed, drowned bodies, torn on the tracks, consumed by incandescent flows and treatments that burn us inside. A rotten system that forces us to rot”.
Antonio Santini for SANREMO.FM
