5 PM – Greetings, Introduction
5:20 PM Lidia Maksymowicz’s speech
In collaboration with Associazione La Memoria Viva – Umanità senza confini
A Polish citizen of Belarusian origin, Lidia Maksymowicz survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp after being held there for 13 months. Today she lives in Krakow, Poland, and is one of the most precious voices of memory. Activist and writer, she is a guest of Eurovision Village.
5:45 PM Giovani Cantori di Torino peace choir
Giovani Cantori is the youth choir of the Associazione Piccoli Cantori di Torino, association and music school founded in 1972, where children from 3 years old learn to sing. Today the choir counts 50 boys and girls from 14 to 21 years old.
Giovani Cantori performed on the most important stages both in Italian and international: RAI, MiTo Settembre Musica, Bonn and Usedom (Germany), Catalonia and Madrid (Spain).
At the Eurovillage they will sing musics from Giuseppe Verdi to John Lennon, from De Andrè to Bob Marley.
6:25 PM Michelle David & the True Tones
Starting from the origin and the essence of Rhythm & Blues and R&R Soul, Onno Smit and Paul Willemsen have reinvented gospel music with Michelle David, African-American singer born in North Carolina and transplanted to Rotterdam. A journey that retraces the steps of The Souls Stirrers, The Zion travelers, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Shirley Ann Lee to get to our days with an extremely innovative and personal show.
7:20 PM Dutch Nazari + Cimini + Alessandro Burbank
Dutch Nazari, pseudonym of Edoardo “Duccio” Nazari, was born on the rap and hip hop scene in the outskirts of Padova. Today his music is free from categorization, between electropop and hindi, with intimist and strong poetic lyrics. He has recorded 5 albums and sung at the Primo Maggio concert in Rome, at the Goa-Boa Festival and at Mi Ami.
On this occasion he will perform with Cimini and Alessandro Burbank.
8:30 PM Emerging musician G Pillola
Guglielmo Pelli, best known as G Pillola, started making music as a young boy, recording his tracks in Genoa with many artists who are now on the Italian rap scene. His career officially began when he moved to Turin. He has been the spokesperson for “happy trap”, but his music has changed in the years, showing influences of different genres.
9 PM Eurovision Slot
Zdob şi Zdub & Fraţii Advahov (Moldova)
LPS (Slovenia)
Vladana (Montenegro)
10:15 PM Tun + Dub FX + Cmqmartina
TUN, Torino Unlimited Noise, is a trio made by Italian jazz artists Gianni Denitto (sax), Fabio Giachino (synth) and Mattia Barbieri (drums). Their music goes beyond the limits of the genre, mixing jazz with techno rythms. A fusion of electronic music and sophisticated harmonic progressions. For the first time ever the trio will join Dub FX aka Benjamin Stanford (Australia), producer, street artist, extremely popular singer known for manipulating his voice with the loop station and sound effects.
Followed Cmqmartina, young singer, revelation of X-Factor 2020.
(Cmqmartina in collaboration with Apolide Festival)