ORSummer Salento becomes an open -air stage, but the most awaited appointment of this year is for Tonight, on Saturday 23 August, in the square of the former Agostinian convent of Melpignano, where it is celebrated The Night of the Tarantaat the rhythm of the pizzica. This year’s concert is titled “Under the same sky”, to underline that music is a universal language, And it will be broadcast live on Rai 3 starting at 9:20 pm.
The Night of the Tarantaconcert 2025, direct Rai 3 TV, guests
The Night of the Taranta It is the largest European festival dedicated to popular music. The 2025 edition is the twenty -eighth of history: in addition to the live broadcast of Rai 3, the Melpignano concert is available in streaming on Raiplaywhere it will remain available on demand. For the public abroad, Rai Italy’s live broadcast will reach America, Africa, Asia and Australia. On the radio, the event will air on Rai Radio2 with the conduct of Ema Stokholma,
The Night of the Tarantaall the guests of the 2025 edition: Giuliano Sangiorgi present
As always, there is no shortage of great guests in the lineup of the concert. There will be Giuliano Sangiorgi, the voice of the Negramaro who, from Salentino, “play at home”. Tonight he will sing two traditional songs, Lu rusciu de lu mare And Quannu you are the faces La Matina. His performance will be anticipated by a special video directed by Edoardo Winspeare, Lu imprisonmentstarring Nicoletta Manni and Timofej Andrijashenko, étoile and first dancer of the scale, In a project that wants to raise awareness of the Xylella drama.
Among others, Ermal Meta and Serena Brancale also sing
The Salento Greek Canzoniere Group, a symbol of pizzica in the world, celebrates his fifty years of his career tonight. And again Antonio Castrignanò will interpret Caddhipulin air And Funtana GitanaWhile Ermal Meta will stage Mediterranean and Lule Lule, a song in Arbëreshe language (the one used by the Albanians who arrived in Italy) that tells its roots.
Tära, Italian of Palestinian origin, will propose Araba FeniceWhile Serena Brancale will sing her hit Anema and core and the pizzica from Bari To the acque, to the Acque. Space also to the new generations with September, born in 2001, winner of Sanremo Giovani with Vertebraewhich will also sing tonight. Finally, Anna Castiglia, with the Salento love song Beddha sleeps us.
Ermal Meta (Photo by Ivan Romano/Getty Images)
From Manhattan to Salento with music as the only guiding thread
To lead this edition it was called David KrakauerManhattan clarinetist and world -renowned composer. Contaminations loverhe was able to make the sound of his clarinet with jazz, classical music, electronics and now with pizzica dialogue. His historical collaborators Kathleen Tagg, Sarahmk and Yoshie Frutchter will also go on stage with him, while The choreography bears the signature of Fredy Franzutti.
The Night of the Taranta It is not just a concert: it is now a collective rite that every year renews the link with the pizzica and tells the world that popular music is not a legacy of the pastbut the soundtrack of the present.