After two years "remotely", due to a pandemic,
the May Day Concert returns as usual to San Giovanni in Rome
.
And the square is ready to accommodate up to 300 thousand people, finally without capacity limits and without restrictions.
To do the honors there will be Ambra Angiolini for the fifth consecutive time, flanked by Bugo
in the first part of the event promoted by the trade unions, which will be broadcast live starting at 3.30 pm on Rai3, Radio2, Rai Play and Rai Italia.
The showgirl and actress left the organizers with bated breath until the last, due to the positivity to the covid found in recent days: the negative molecular swab arrived in the early afternoon of the eve removed any doubt about her presence.
"After two years it would have been a joke if I had stayed at home and they in the square", commented Ambra.
Excited Bugo, who was among the protagonists of the last two editions of the Concertone: "I'm not a conductor, but I'll try to do my best. And to convey emotion, passion and truth",
There will be no Willie Peyote, blocked for a contact with a positive.
And neither is Clementino, busy with the rehearsals of the Rai2 program Made in Sud, of which he is the host.
But
in the cast come Gazzelle and Riccardo Cocciante with the artists of Notre Dame de Paris which celebrates 20 years of success.
In all there will be
about 50 artists who will take turns on the stage of San Giovanni
for what wants to be a collective management, in which everyone will have space for a thought or reflection.
The slogan chosen this year by the event is "To work for peace"
, because as the organizers explained, if on the one hand there is the joy of returning to the streets after two years of pandemic, on the other there is the anguish of what is happening a few steps away from us.
The war in Ukraine cannot leave us indifferent and as the only symbolic international guests - thanks to the collaboration of Siae -
there will be Go_A, the Ukrainian band that represented the country at the last edition of the Eurovision Song Contest
.
These are all the artists expected on stage:
Marco Mengoni, Go_A, Gazzelle, Carmen Consoli, Ariete, The Representative of the list, Luchè, Coez, Venerus, Mace feat.
Rkomi, Venerus, Gemitaiz, Colapesce, Joan Thiele, Psychologists, Rancore, Mara Sattei, Bresh, Tommaso Paradiso, Rkomi, Ornella Vanoni, Rovere, Fabrizio Moro, Orchestraccia, Sinkro, Enrico Ruggeri, Deddy and Caffellatte, Mobrici, Coma_cose, Max Pezzali , Fasma, Bigmama, Mecna, Vibrazioni, Claver Gold, Luca Barbarossa and Extraliscio, Angelina Mango, Hu, Notre Dame de Paris with Riccardo Cocciante, Mr. Rain, Bandabardò & Cisco,
VV.
The three winners of the 1MNEXT 2022 contest Giorgieness, Mille, Mira
will also take the stage .
Music will be the host but there will be moments of reflection, on the themes of work, rights, war, social policies, entrusted to
Giovanna Botteri, Marco Paolini, Riccardo Iacona, Stefano Massini, the influencer Federica Gasbarro ,
Francesca Barra and Claudio Santamaria and the youtuber Barbascura X.
There will also be the irony of
Valerio Lundini with the Vazzanikki
.
From the square - explain CGIL, CISL and UIL - "a message of hope and a fresh start after a period of unrest that involved everyone. Music becomes a vehicle for talking about rights, but also about safety and protection. Work - dignified and stable - it designs the future of the country and can build a more just and dignified society ".