CONCERTO DELL'ALBA InCanti diVersi 2025

**InCanti diVersi – Dawn Concert in Polignano a Mare**

A ritual of rebirth through music, poetry, and memory, as the sun rises, caressed by the sea, seeking with its first warmth the **Hermit's Islet**, a natural backdrop to the beauty of which everyone is a part.

There is a moment, fragile yet powerful, when the night surrenders to the light. It is dawn: not merely an astronomical transition, but an inner gateway, an ancient rite that speaks of hope, rebirth, and possibility. In Polignano a Mare, one of the most poetic spots in Puglia, this moment becomes a spectacle, a collective meditation, and an artistic experience: the "Dawn Concert," now in its eighth edition, scheduled for "August 30 at 5 a.m." at the **Seaside Garden of the Pino Pascali Museum**.

This concert, titled **"InCanti diVersi,"** is not just a simple music festival but a **weave of languages – music, poetry, testimonies** – that guides the audience on a journey from the darkness of the night to the light of day. A physical and spiritual path that finds its most authentic natural scenography in the sunrise by the Hermit's Islet.

**The place: a theater suspended between sky and sea**
The Garden of the Pino Pascali Foundation Museum, perched on the cliff overlooking the sea and surrounded by the silence of the early hours, becomes a unique stage. Behind, the museum's architecture holds the legacy of a great Apulian artist who, in his short life, charted new expressive paths; in front, the open horizon and the sun's line that slowly lights up, tinting the Hermit's rock in pink and gold, a solitary little guardian in the middle of the sea. No artificial scenography or special lights are needed: nature itself composes the scene. The sound of the waves blends with the notes of the instruments, and the spectator becomes an integral part of a rite that engages the senses and the soul.

**The protagonists: voices and instruments that tell stories**
The 2025 edition brings to Polignano an ensemble of extraordinary artists, each with a history intertwining talent, international experiences, and deep human roots.
**Paola Folli,** an intense and versatile voice, has been one of the most beloved performers on the Italian scene for years, beyond any trend, consistent in the search for a sound that exalts joy and presence in life. She has collaborated with icons like Mina, Laura Pausini, Andrea Bocelli, Elio e le Storie Tese, bringing her vocality to ever-different territories, from light music to jazz. Her presence guarantees a unique emotional impact: a voice that can be a caress and a scream, a prayer, and a celebration.
Beside her, the guitar of **Nando Di Modugno,** a musician capable of making each string resonate with elegance and depth. He has collaborated with giants like Morricone, Piovani, Bollani, becoming an ambassador of a language that unites classical tradition with jazz improvisation.
The double bass of **Giuseppe Bassi,** among the most appreciated names in Italian jazz, brings with it the breath of world tours and projects of dialogue between cultures.
By his side, the drums of **Mimmo Campanale,** the rhythmic engine of many Italian and international productions, able to combine energy and refinement.
The saxophone of **Claudio “Wally” Allifranchini**, a soul that has embraced the deep sense of the Concert, uniting artists, but first and foremost human sensitivities capable of living harmony before performing, recounts a career that has seen him go from Ray Charles to Mina, from Battiato to Rava, with a naturalness that is a rare gift. His instrumental voice will know how to color the dawn with now intimate, now overwhelming tones.
From Northern Europe comes the poetic piano of **Daniel Karlsson,** winner of a Swedish Grammy, a protagonist of the Scandinavian jazz scene: his notes bring with them inner landscapes and delicate atmospheres that will intertwine with the Mediterranean light.
Finally, the trumpet of **Alberto Di Leone,** a young Apulian talent already appreciated in international festivals, which with his freshness will add vitality and momentum.

Together, these artists compose a sound mosaic that embraces generations, cultures, and languages but finds unity in dawn as a universal symbol.

**The meaning: a dawn that becomes embrace and rebirth**
This concert also brings a dimension of "memory, testimony, and future."
To open this meeting-concert will be **Don Gaetano Luca Amore,** parish priest of the Matrice Church, with an intense and universal reflection, directed at every sensitivity, without barriers: words that will accompany the spectator on an inner journey, reminding that the light of dawn is not a victory over darkness, but a sign that there is always another possibility, another path to take. A light witness of this edition will be **Raffaele Diomede,** a writer and educator who has always been alongside the young, taking dozens of them away from organized crime, and the last, the most fragile, to whom he has never failed to offer help, sharing stories of rebirth and resistance, also taken from his recent book **"Carne amara,"** published by **Florestana Editore.** An experience that crossed the story of **Davide Gaetano D'Accolti,** in whose memory the Musicad'Incanto Association organizes this unique dawn concert. With the Patronage of the Municipality of Polignano a Mare, in collaboration with the Matrice Church of Polignano a Mare and the Pino Pascali Museum Foundation.
Another precious testimony will be that of **Giuseppe Teofilo,** artist and director of the Pino Pascali Museum: through beauty and creativity, he will show how every person, even those experiencing prison or marginality, can rediscover their potential and recognize in themselves an inner beauty that goes beyond the committed mistake. His presence testifies how art is not just contemplation but a tool of self-awareness, rebirth, and concrete possibility of transformation.
The memory of every **"Davide"** that each carries in their heart is not a commemorative act, but the deep root of this event: a way to say that art and music can continue to keep alive what we loved, transforming loss into vital energy, pain into a possibility of shared beauty, that beauty that we always believe is present even in experiences of darkness and only needs a kind smile to be a new dawn for each of us.

**The phases of a sound rite: from darkness to light**
The "Dawn Concert" does not open with noise but with the breath of silence. The arrival of the audience, still immersed in the dark, is accompanied by poetic words and reflections that invite leaving behind daily distractions and embracing the present moment.
Then the music takes shape: initially intimate, contained, almost whispered, like the light filtering from the horizon. The notes become more intense as the light increases, until exploding in a joyful dialogue when the sun appears in full glory. It is a symbolic and sound crescendo that reflects the transition from night to day, from shadows to possibilities.

**Beyond the concert: the InCanti diVersi experience**
"InCanti diVersi" is not just a title, but a declaration of intent: to give voice to a plurality of languages, where music meets poetry, personal testimony becomes art, and the audience becomes an active part of the experience.
There are no distant audiences or inaccessible stages: the space is shared, the chairs are few and simple, the atmosphere is that of a community meeting. Every year, participants recount having experienced not just a concert, but a transformative experience, in which words, sounds, and the rising sun opened a new perspective on life.

**A gift to the community**
The event is free and open to all: a concrete sign of the desire to offer art and beauty as a common, accessible, and inclusive good. In a time when culture is often experienced as a commodity or a spectacle to purchase, seeking the "breathtaking" instead of a common breath, the Dawn Concert returns the original value of art to the public: that of being a collective experience, an occasion for encounter, a source of meaning.

**Conclusion: dawn as a promise**
When the sun has crossed the horizon line and the last notes have faded, what remains in the eyes and hearts of the audience is the awareness of having lived a special passage: not just the beginning of a day, but the promise that, despite everything, the light always returns, and not because it has conquered darkness, but emerging from what appears to us as black, a fracture, for despite everything, within the darkness there's already the promise of happiness, fertile.
Thus, Polignano, with its sea and its poetry, becomes the place where art, memory, and community meet to celebrate together the fragile and powerful beauty of life reborn.

**The phases from darkness to light**
The concert begins at 5:03, in the silence of astronomical twilight, when the brightest stars still dot the sky, and the marine horizon is barely discernible. It is a suspended moment where everyone can find their inner trajectory, tracing the path of their life.
As the sky lightens, we are accompanied by the civil twilight at 6:18, when the weaker stars hide, and life, invisible to ordinary senses, moves silently around us: an invitation to observe, capture hidden signs, and recognize the strength surrounding us.
At 6:49, dawn opens with a blade of light caressing the sea and guarding the Hermit's Rock. Breath halts, gazes open: the sun is not just light but a promise of a new day, of renewed possibilities. And as the music accompanies us, we discover the true enchantment is not in the light being born, but in the eyes of those beside us, in shared tears and embracing smiles, in the beauty of people more than in the spectacle itself.

*The associated video narrates the 2024 Dawn Concert, but captures the atmosphere of all previous editions where artists and audience share music, emotions, and humanity in a single breath.*