Building on last year's success, with an attendance of over 30,000 people, the 23rd edition of "La Notte della Tammorra" returns from 1 to 5 July 2025, in the evocative setting of Piazza Mercato. The great popular festival dedicated to traditional Campania music is curated by maestro concertatore Carlo Faiello and is promoted and financed by the Municipality of Naples for "Naples City of Music", as part of the macro-review "Summer in Naples 2025".
An event that celebrates the artistic and cultural heritage of Neapolitan folk, an authentic symbol of Italian music in the world, capable of inspiring generations of musicians and captivating an international audience with its ancestral rhythm and emotional power.
Five days of music, dance and culture, with two evening concerts, workshops and a conference, to celebrate an art that lives in the present while looking at the deepest roots of tradition. A unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the popular culture of Campania, among hypnotic rhythms, songs of love and protest, dances that speak of freedom. Because the tammurriata is not just music: it is the soul of Naples that beats in the world.
"Piazza Mercato confirms itself once again as a privileged container of great events such as 'La Notte della Tammorra', which is part of the new edition of Estate a Napoli. A Summer inaugurated with a renewed formula, in line with the vision of the Administration led by Mayor Gaetano Manfredi, which offers a calendar full of new proposals and consolidated quality initiatives such as, precisely, 'La Notte della Tammorra', to promote an inclusive and polycentric image of the city's culture, valorizing its different identities and its symbolic places", declares Sergio Locoratolo, coordinator of cultural policies of the Municipality of Naples.
"In line with the 'Naples City of Music' project - observes Ferdinando Tozzi, the Mayor's delegate for the music and audiovisual industry - the 2025 edition of 'La Notte della Tammorra' will offer a program full of concerts and training sessions, promoting the knowledge and diffusion of the tammurriata as an artistic expression with deep roots. It is an event that embraces not only the past and present of our music, but also explores its future prospects. 'La Notte della Tammorra' is the pulsating soul of our city that vibrates and spreads throughout the world".
"This year we celebrate dance, ancient song, the languages of the South, in a journey between past and present" - says Carlo Faiello, concertmaster. "Piazza Mercato returns to being the space of the lost and rediscovered "rhythm", where famous artists and bearers of tradition meet to tell a music that is history, identity and innovation".
Concerts: the magic of folk music on stage
Friday 4th July, the evening will open with Serena Rossi, an extraordinary interpreter of the Neapolitan musical and theatrical scene, preceded by the evocative 'Canto 'a figliola' dedicated to the Madonna del Carmine and the Tammurriata di Accoglienza. On stage, there will be great names of the folk scene and new voices: Ars Nova Napoli; the voices of Nu-Folk such as Irene Scarpato (Suonno d'ajere), Simona Boo (99 Posse, Bimbi di fumo), Denise Di Maria and the Roman Lavinia Mancusi who presents a project that combines folk, classical and pop.
And again the historic female quartet Assurd and the overwhelming Bagarjia Orkestar will alternate with the masters of Tammurriata: Antonio o' Lione Matrone, Toto Toralbo, Dario Mogavero, Luigi Matrone.
Saturday 5th July, the protagonist will be the iconic Peppe Barra, together with Roberto Colella, historic voice of La Maschera. And also: Carlo Faiello in a tribute to the dances and languages of the South, Mimmo Cavallaro (Tarantella calabrese), Piero Ricci (Saltarello molisano), Ugo Mazzei (Sicilian song), Officine Popolari Lucane di Pietro Cirillo (tarantella lucana). The Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, on international tour, will celebrate 50 years of career with an explosion of pizziche salentine; the Tammurriate of Biagio De Prisco, guardian of the ancient art of dancing on the drum. Grand finale with the Ballo Notturno and, for the bravest, the magical dawn of 6th July with the spontaneous paranze.
Workshops and conference: delving deeper into tradition
From 1st to 5th July, at the Church of Santa Croce and Purgatorio al Mercato, there will be: folk dance workshops (curated by Mariagrazia Altieri)
Frame drum workshops (curated by Enzo Esposito – Tammurrièllo).
Thursday, July 3, the conference “Tarantella in the form of a rose” (7:00 p.m.) will feature speeches by: Paolo Apolito (anthropologist), Pier Paolo De Giorgi (ethnomusicologist), Enzo Amato (orchestra director). Moderator Ugo Vuoso (university professor and popularizer). Following, in the wake of living tradition, performances of Irpinia tarantella, Vesuvian tammurriate, pizzica tarantata and Neapolitan tarantella.
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