La Ghironda 2025 | Ceglie Messapica

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Four days of music and entertainment, with artists coming from everywhere. **La Ghironda is celebrating in the Itria Valley, which from September 4th to 7th becomes the center of the world with the Festival of Folk Art and Culture from the five continents. The two locations involved are Ceglie Messapica, on Thursday, September 4th and Friday, September 5th, and Martina Franca, on Saturday, September 6th and Sunday, September 7th, where the event conceived by Giovanni Marangi, supported by the municipalities of Ceglie Messapica and Martina Franca, is renewed with great style.** Now in its twenty-eighth edition, the historic festival by La Ghironda continues to light up the villages of Puglia with imagination and emotion, connecting audiences and performers, sounds and colors, different languages and cultures, all in the spirit of dialogue among peoples.

Musicians of all kinds, from ethnic music to rockabilly, South American folk to classical sounds, will animate with acrobats, fire-eaters, and puppeteers the two eagerly awaited stops in the heart of the Itria Valley, set up in various stations located in the historical centers of the two cities: eight in Ceglie Messapica (Piazza Sant'Antonio, Piazza Plebiscito, the cloister of the Med Cooking School, Chiesa Matrice, Largo Ognissanti, Piazza Vecchia, Largo Monterrone, and Maac Museum), ten in Martina Franca (Piazzetta Sant'Eligio, Corso Italia, Piazza XX Settembre, Piazza Roma, Largo San Giovanni, Piazza Plebiscito, Piazza Immacolata, Largo San Pietro, the cloister of San Domenico, and Piazzetta Stabile).

**Artists from thirteen countries** (United States, Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, Cuba, Peru, Argentina, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Zimbabwe, Senegal, Congo, and Italy) will be guests, including some leading figures of "world music." Almost 140 performances are scheduled over four days in rotation. Among the most anticipated artists are the British Cosmic Sausages, an acoustic street band that combines folk music and eccentric humor in a unique performance. And then, the German Tanga Elektra, an electro-soul band from Berlin composed of brothers David and Elias Engler, the first a violinist and effects wizard, the second a drummer, in addition to the world music multinational, Yampapaya Tribe, a multi-ethnic group founded by the American David James Hoffman, offering an explosive performance with Senegalese, Congolese, Brazilian, and Italian musicians.

Among other protagonists are Argentine guitarist Mateo Saralegui, who merges South American folklore with jazz and classical music, the Zimbabwean ensemble Insingizi, which preserves the African vocal style 'mboube, the Zulu worker's song made famous by Paul Simon in the album "Graceland," the Crazy Pony, a Swiss-based duo specializing in bluegrass composed of English banjo virtuoso Frank Powlesland and Swiss double bassist Léa Rovero, the Riciclato Circo Musicale, a folk-rock group that uses recycled materials and everyday objects to create musical instruments, totally invented and inspired by traditional instruments, just like the Psycodrummers, who instead will play exclusively self-produced percussion.

The musical offerings span genres, from the South American sounds of Marben and Mariachis Tequileros, a group formed by Venezuelan, Mexican, Peruvian, and Italian musicians, to the Irish music of the Strawboys, from the reggae of the Baresi Rhomanife and Triangle Roots to the rockabilly of the Ol'Boogies, from the folk-rock of the Tuscans LOccasione to the classical sounds of Venezuelan cellist Andrea Cellolo and the duo composed of harpist Maria Grassi and violinist Cristina Ciura. And, also, the Conturband, the trio Folksongs, the Salento music group Provvisorio popolare, the Jazzati, and the Overswing, while the performing arts and figures will be the domain of the magician Daigoro, puppeteer Alex Piras, fire-eater Simone Antonaci, and acrobat Gali, with his upside-down show.

🌍 La Ghironda 2025
🎶 Festival of Folk Art and Culture of the 5 Continents
📅 Thursday, September 4th, and Friday, September 5th, 2025
📍 Historical center of Ceglie Messapica (BR)