The traveling festival "La Notte della Taranta" is underway.

Nineteen dates to be won over with tarantula-like rhythms. Concerts that for almost a month, from the first until August 29th, will liven up the Salento squares following the pizzica beats. A traveling exhibition illuminated by a theme summed up in a single word: Plurals. It's the festival itinerant edition of the Notte della Taranta which for the 2025 edition is banking on many guests such as La Niña, scheduled for August 10th in heart of St. Andrew, the Palestinian collective 47Soul that on the 8th August will be in Nardò, and the Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino that the On August 17th Zollino will celebrate the first fifty years since its foundation. foundation. The three protagonists of the festival will also be artistic projects selected through the Ernesto De Martino call 2025 which will bring on stage some world premieres on the legacy of the anthropologist sixty years after his death. Giovanni Bianconi, Mario Avagliano, Alessandro Portelli, Paolo Prato, will instead be the guests of Taranta Talk, the meetings organized by the Notta della Taranta foundation "to bring in the squares of Salento, critical reflection on the present", the organizers explain in a note which highlights that there will be space for the new generations, with original projects like those of Hiram Salsano and Roberta Lidia De Stefano, who alongside international choral and ensemble performances and the I am designing the Dance School, curated by the ballet company of the Taranta. "In a time when barriers are being raised, we choose to open the doors of culture - declares the president of the La Notte della Taranta Foundation, Massimo Bray - Plurali is the word that guided us in thinking about this edition: it is a invitation, a way of inhabiting the time and space of our land today". The itinerant journey through the popular rhythms of Salento will lead to Melpignano when August 23rd will be lived the big concert.