SEHEM TA' GHANNEJJA U DAQQAQA MALTIN FIL-FESTIVAL "ILHNA U HSEJJES TAL-MEDITERRAN", F'GIBELLINA

Id-Dipartiment tal-Kultura ghandu l-pjacir ihabbar is-sehem ta' gemgha ta' ghannejja u daqqaqa Maltin fil-Festival "ILHNA U HSEJJES TAL-MEDITERRAN" imniedi mill-Fondazzjoni Orestiadi ta' Gibellina fit-tielet gimgha ta' Settembru bil-hsieb li l-partecipanti jaghfsu fuq l-improvvizazzjoni, id-deklamazzjoni u l-intonazzjoni tat-tradizzjoni orali. Is-sehem tal-Maltin sar bl-ininzjattiva tas-Sur Joseph J. Mifsud, id-Direttur tal-Kultura.

Kif isejjahlu l-organizzatur stess, il-Prof. Paolo Scarnecchia, dan il-festival ta' Settembru se jkun "festa ta' rimi". L-ghannejja u daqqaq Maltin huma Censu Abela "Tal-Pitrolju", Karmnu Bonnici "l-Bahri", Censu Carabott "il-Bukku", Jason Seguna "In-Nekus", Kalcidon Vella "Ta' Mustacca" bhala prim kitarrista u wliedu Mark Vella u Denise Vella li se jakkumpanjawh. Dawn il-Maltin se jkunu mmexxija mis-Sur Joe Scerri, uficcjal mid-Dipartiment tal-Kultura u meghjun mis-Sur Gorg Mifsud Chircop li se jikkoordina s-sehem kollu tal-Maltin fil-Festival u se jaghmel tahdita awdjo-viziva fuq l-ghana Malti u se jiehu sehem f'diskussjoni ghal ta' l-apposta ma' studjuzi u ricerkaturi ohra ta' l-ghana fil-Mediterran.

Barra Malta f'dan il-festival se jiehdu sehem Korsika, it-Toskana, il-Libanu, Sardinja, Spanja u Sqallija. Il-partecipanti Maltin intghazlu mill-Prof. Scarnecchia stess matul it-Tielet Festival Nazzjonali ta' l-Ghana u li sar fil-Gonna ta' l-Argotti l-Furjana Mejju li ghadda.

PARTECIPATION OF MALTESE FOLK SINGERS AND GUITARISTS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN FOLK FESTIVAL "VOICES AND MUSIC OF THE MEDITERRANEAN' IN GIBELLINA.

The Department of Culture is pleased to announce the participation of a group of Maltese folksingers and guitarists in the Mediterranean folk festival "VOICES AND MUSIC OF THE MEDITERRANEAN" organised by the Orestiadi Foundation of Gibellina during the third week of September. This participation was possible through the initiative of Mr. Joseph J. Mifsud, Director of Culture. It is intended that the participants place great emphasis on improvisation, intonation and declamation of their oral tradition. As the organiser, Prof. Paolo Scarnecchia himself declared, the September festival shall be 'a feast of rhythms".

The Maltese folksingers and guitarists are Censu Abela "Tal-Pitrolju", Karmnu Bonnici "Il-Bahri", Censu Carabott "Il-Bukku", Jason Seguna "In-Nekus", Kalcidon Vella "Ta' Mustacca" as main guitarist and his children Mark and Denise who shall be accompanying him. The group leader is Mr. Joe Scerri from the Department of Culture, accompanied by Mr. Gorg Mifsud Chircop as coordinator of the entire participation of the Maltese group during the festival. He shall also deliver a paper on Maltese folk singing and take part in a discussion with other scholars and researchers on Mediterranean folk singing.

Other participant countries in the festival come from Corsica, Lebanon, Sardinia, Sicily, Tuscany and Spain. The Maltese participants have been selected by Prof. Scarnecchia during the Third National Folk Singing Festival held in Argotti in May 2000.