Increasingly busy days for the Grottaminarda festival. Today’s program, Sunday 20 August, includes many meetings and tonight’s climax with a concert by Gabriele Esposito, the Neapolitan artist best known for the X Factor talent show.
This time, the Musical Orchestra of the city of Conversano brought a festive atmosphere to the streets of the city, and then to the matinee on Corso Vittorio Veneto from early in the morning. This evening the orchestra will return to Fontana Square at 20:30 for a traditional and very popular music show.
A moment deeply cherished by centaurs and many citizens, the laying of a wreath of flowers at the Motolito, the touching thought of traffic victims on the only monument in Southern Italy dedicated to dead motorcyclists; an initiative organized by Vespa Club Leoni Rossi.
Then in the afternoon we return to holiness with perhaps Festoon’s most important moment: Solemn Mass in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore at 18:30, presided over by His Excellency Bishop Monsignor Sergio Melillo, and then at 19:30 a triumphal exit (underlined explosion of colored confetti) processions in honor of St. Thomas, St. Anthony and St. Rocco, with the play of fountains and pyrotechnic batteries passing through Padre Pio Square; The procession will end at the Church of the Rosary.
Also on this fifth day will be offered a very long-awaited show of turning on the lights to the rhythm of the music.
And finally, at midnight, Marzo Gabriele Esposito gives a concert in Piazza XVI.
Gabriele Esposito is a Neapolitan singer and songwriter. He started playing from the tender age of 10 as a self-taught guitarist through Youtube tutorials. He became known to the general public after participating in the tenth edition of X Factor 11. His musical culture ranges from John Mayer to Shawn Mendes and Ed Sheeran.
Gabriele Esposito’s version of Tananai’s “Tango” has disappeared from social media. The same author restarted it several times. Grottaminard is also waiting to hear it and his most romantic songs, such as “Aret’ a ‘nu penziero”, “L’unica” or “T’aggio purtato na rosa”.