PRODUCTIONS Percfest 2005 Is it simply a percussion festival? No, Percfest is different. It’s a sort of social meeting for drummers and percussionists, a 15 hour per day drum party where teachers, students, players and audience are living together in one of the most beautiful towns of the Mediterranean Riviera. Percfest was created 9 years ago in memory of the Italian percussionist Naco and has become one of the world’s most powerful drum festivals: six days with 20 daily events, where the teachers are speaking four different languages (Italian, English, German, Brazilian and Spanish). Percfest 2005 morning events were drum and fitness sessions on the beach; in the afternoon drum and percussion lessons were in the clubs; masterclasses in open theatres and squares, and drum circles were throughout the typical intricate streets in the town of Laigueglia. Over 18,000 drum enthusiasts attended the events, including concerts in the evening and jam sessions during the night. Some of the best Italian and European jazzists played on the stage, with drummers such as France’s most popular André Ceccarelli. Rome’s king Roberto Gatto, gigged in a duo with nutty pianist Stefano Bollani and played with sticks and bare hands with Ecm’s trumpetist Enrico Rava. The "Psyco Drum" quintet fired up the audience with a lineup made up by drummers Enzo Zirilli and Stefano Bagnoli plus vibes wizard Andrea Dulbecco. The duo Roberto Gualdi + Stefano Bagnoli gave life to a captivating masterclass, where the hard rocker Gualdi was called "the devil" and brush specialist Bagnoli "the angel": the paradoxical contrast captured both jazz and metal fans and was one of the most apreciated events, as was the six lesson course led by Luca Capitani on "rock drumming". Track list: ENRICO RAVA 5tet Algir Dalbughi Drums: ROBERTO GATTO FUTURE DRUMS Trunkatu Drums: CHRISTIAN MEYER, percussion: NACO FITNESS ON THE BEACH Drums: ELLADE BANDINI, LUCA CAPITANI Percussion: GIORGIO PALOMBINO, TONY MENENES PSYCODRUMS F. B. & S. Drums: STEFANO BAGNOLI, ENZO ZIRILLI GILSON SILVEIRA Boiadero Percussion: GILSON SILVEIRA STEFANO BOLLANI e ROBERTO GATTO Javierito Drums: ROBERTO GATTO ROSARIO BONACCORSO 5tet Song for Flavia Drums: ANDRE' CECCARELLI DJALMA CORREA / GILSON SILVEIRA Moçambiqueiros Percussion: DJALMA CORREA, GILSON SILVEIRA ANDREA MAZZANTI Drum solo Drums: ANDREA MAZZANTI ENRICO RAVA 5tet Happyness is to win a big prize in cash Drums: ROBERTO GATTO JAM SESSION Drums: ELLADE BANDINI TAMBURI DI BELLINZONA Marching drummers nare & bass drum: VALERIO FELICE, MARCO MALOSSA, EDY PEDRINI, ANDREA BREGONZIO, DANIELE PESENTI DRUM & PERCUSSION CLINICS (Excepts from) Dodicieventi Percussion: DADO SEZZI, drums: MARCO CAVANI Musica dal mondo - Brasile Percussion: GILSON SILVEIRA Il diavolo e l’acquasanta Drums: STEFANO BAGNOLI, ROBERTO GUALDI Scuola di batteria Drums: LUCA CAPITANI Dodicieventi Percussion: DADO SEZZI, MARCO FADDA Drum clinic Drums: ALESSIA MATTALIA Musica dal mondo - Cuba Percussion: TONY MENESES MARCO IANNETTA Tutti a terra la giostra si ribella Drums: MARCO IANNETTA PERCFEST CHALLENGE for creative percussionists Drums and percussion: FRANCESCO LA ROSA, DANILO VISCO, LORENZO RESSEL, LORENZO CAPELLO, ROBERTO QUAGLIARELLA and JACOPO PELLEGRINI NUOVA CORDATA PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE Africans Percussion: EMANUELA TURELLI, GIOVANNI TURELLI, MAURIZIO GUERINI, RICCARDO MONTINI, CRISTINA FERRARI, MARIALAURA BETTONI, PIERANGELO FERRARI, MARZIA BUGATTI, SANDRO VIOLA, SABINA ALMICI, director: GASPARE BONAFEDE GREAT NACO ORCHESTRA Dream GREAT NACO ORCHESTRA El sueno de naquito TAMBURI DI BELLINZONA Metricsticks TAMBURI DI BELLINZONA + ApPel Swissamba Jam Snare & bass drum: VALERIO FELICE, MARCO MALOSSA, EDY PEDRINI, ANDREA BREGONZIO, DANIELE PESENTI. Percussion: ALDO BICELLI, ANTONIO BIANCO, CHIARA BONOMETTI, DANIELA SAVOLDI, GIORDANO MASSIMELLI, GIOVANNA DAMIANI, LUCA FERRABOLI, PIETRO MACCIONI, MARCELLA BERTOLI, MARZIA SAVOLDI, SILVIA BUTTURINI I PIATTI MUSICALI UFIP (Extra feature) Last night at Percfest’s was a collective drum show with Italian percussionists Marco Fadda, Giorgio Palombino and Dado Sezzi, Brazilians Gilson Silveira and Djalma Correa (who recorded with Peter Gabriel, too), Cuban Tony Meneses, traditional Swiss marching snare band "I tamburi di Bellinzona", the twelve year old jazz drummer Andrea Mazzanti, and Ellade Bandini, probably the most popular Italian drummer. Percfest’s tenth edition will be in June 2006. www.percfest.com