50 years played: Paolo Fresu celebrates half a century with 50 low environmental impact concerts

    50 concerts scattered in the most beautiful and uncontaminated places of the whole island, in search of the perfect combination of music and nature, of a new way of playing without impacting on the environment, of new places to turn into stages. And yes, because this is the spirit of! 50: giving sounds and emotions in unusual locations and in total harmony with the environment.



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    “At 50, you tend to take stock of your life but I don't want to. Because I don't feel them on me and why I start living now. As a father, man and artist ". That is how Paolo Fresu, one of the most famous jazz players in the world, presents the event organized to celebrate his 50th birthday.



    Obviously, his homeland, Sardinia, acts as a backdrop: 50 concerts scattered in the most beautiful and unspoiled places of the whole island, in search of the perfect combination of music and nature, of a new way of playing without impacting the environment, of new places to become stages. And yes, because that's the spirit of ! 50: giving sounds and emotions in unusual locations and in total harmony with the environment.

    The challenge is to make each concert with solos 5 Kw, audio, lights and video included. A challenge that the Sardinian jazz player is managing to win thanks to a ecological generator set, which captures the energy of the sun and wind during the day and then returns it in the evening, during the concert, in the form of sounds and lights. To do this, only 3 lighting bodies are used a ice low voltage (maximum 75w) and video projectors of 300w maximum. The art of Fresu and the wonders of the Sardinian land will do the rest.

    50! started on June 12 from berchidda, birthplace of the trumpeter, where the international festival takes place every year around August XNUMXth “Time in jazz”,ralways made with a low environmental impact. It will continue uninterruptedly, with one concert a day, until July 31, crossing nuragic villages, forests, ancient mines, archaeological areas, parks and museums. On this journey Paolo Fresu will be accompanied by the most important names in the jazz scene and beyond: daUri Caine a Ludovico Einaudi e Stefano Bollani, passing through different genres and languages ​​such as those of Lella Costa, Paola Turci o Ascanio Celestini.


    50 years played: Paolo Fresu celebrates half a century with 50 low environmental impact concerts


    Fifty unmissable events that talk about the economic crisis, near and distant black tides, social exclusion, but also about nature, beauty, life. Because sometimes even just with music you can make us reflect, and it is possible to do so in a sustainable way.


    Check out the full program of! 50 clicking here.

    Eleonora Cresci

    Thanks for the photo of the concert in the medieval village of Geridu (Sorso - SS) Fausto Pintus.

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