Tenco 2024, the third and final evening: Awards, guests and live shows

We also arrive at the third and final appointment at Ariston Theater in Sanremo with the 2024 edition of the Tenco Prize. Tonight, October 19th, the exhibition dedicated to Songwriting, which this year celebrates the important milestone of 50 yearsturns the spotlight on new Awards and new guests with a show always presented from Francesco Centotrame and Antonio Silva.

The third evening: the Awards

After a day full of meetings and presentations, the final evening of Tenco 2024 sees protagonists on stage Samuele Bersanito which Club Tenco confers the Tenco Awardawarded to the career of those who have made a significant contribution to Songwriting, and Caterina Caselli For The Tenco Award to the cultural operator. Furthermore, the SIAE Award in honor of Ivan Grazianiwhich participated in the first edition of 1974, and for which Filippo Graziani takes the stage.

Filippo is ready to return to stages throughout Italy with a “traveling birthday party” to celebrate what would have been Ivan Graziani’s eightieth birthday: “These are the years in which we take away some satisfaction. When we realized that this date of eighty years since birth was approaching, since I sense that dad’s presence is extremely alive, I thought I’d do a traveling birthday party“, explains the artist about the new tour “Eighty. Happy birthday Ivan“: “My initial idea was: ‘If my father had been here, what would I have done to celebrate his 80th birthday?’ On stage we will bring songs that belong to dad’s repertoire, but also songs by other artists.

And, of course, being a party, .guests are expected: in the hall and on stage. Without any heaviness, this tour is driven by the joy of celebrating.”

Caterina Casellito which the Tenco Award to the cultural operatorshe says: “I had so much fun that I don’t remember how much I did for the songwriting”, she jokes: “SI’m really grateful to fate for being able to work around music, for music. I did a lot and I had a lot of fun. And I started getting involved with music when it was possible to make mistakes, and therefore with the possibility of taking risks. As we know, the artist is shy and must have time to prove himself. Results come with time, if you work on quality. There are some amazing chances to see an artist you believed in and believe achieve his career. And this is the greatest satisfaction I have ever felt. Beyond great careers, I still feel a lot of affection for those artists in whom I believed, in whom I continue to believe, but who did not arrive where we expected. It doesn’t mean that quality can always be rewarded. But operators working in this sector have to try”.

The guests

In addition to the winners of the Tenco Awards, the stage of the Ariston Theater welcomes guests this evening Francesco Tricaricoafter participating in the first two evenings, Simone Cristicchi and Amara, Yuri Shevchuk (Tenco Award 2022), e Irene Buselli.

“Tonight we decided to open a parenthesis to nudism”, states Amara in the press conference, protagonist of the tour together with Cristicchi “We will return again. Mystical concert for Battiato“: “We will be clothed only in words, we will be just guitar and voice. We’ll do a song we wrote together, ‘The few things that matter‘. I will then do a song that I wrote a few years ago for Fiorella Mannoia, ‘May she be blessed‘, and then we’ll do it a tribute to our Franco Battiato”. Simone Cristicchi adds: “Our tour of Battiato’s mystical repertoire is continuing: we thought it would only last one season, but it is having a long and lasting road. This gives us the perception that there is an audience that wants to feed on this type of music“.

As “Tenco proposal” this year, Irene Buselli brings to the stage “Excuse me“: “The song was born from the imagination of meeting oneself ten years earlier“, explains the Genoese musician: “Behind it there is a literary inspiration, which is a poem by Wislawa Szymborska and is entitled ‘An adolescent’. Driven by this image, I thought about doing it too, discovering that I had many things pending. Which then ended up on the album ‘Io, io, io'”.

Two years after the awarding of the Tenco Prize this year Yuri Shevchuk he is finally at the Ariston to receive the recognition that due to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict he was unable to collect in person before. “We are great lovers of Italy”, explains the Russian musician, founder of the rock group in 1980 DDT: “Tonight we offer four songs that are inspired by great Italian artists. It will be a different set from our usual ones, we are lovers of Italian music and among the artists we grew up with there are Al Bano, Toto Cotugno, Adriano Celentano and Matia Bazar”.

9.00 pm – Ariston Theatre
3rd Evening of the Songwriting Review – presented by Antonio Silva and Francesco Centorame

Simone Cristicchi and Amara – Filippo Graziani – Jurij Ševčuk (Tenco Prize 2022) – Irene Buselli – Francesco Tricarico – Caterina Caselli (Tenco Prize for the cultural operator) – Samuele Bersani (Tenco Prize) – Presentation of the Siae Prize