xxii Berchidda time in jazz festival

Time in Jazz festival Berchidda Sardinia

Each year in the month of August, Berchidda, takes place "time in jazz, perhaps the most anticipated event of all the musical events of the summer sarda.This festival of jazz music, was founded in 1988 by an idea of Paolo Fresu, who is also the artistic director.internationally renowned trumpeter, Paolo Fresu, who was also born in a small town between Berchidda gallura and Logudoro with just over 3000 inhabitants, and here would have it grow and develop its "creation".Why? enhance his country not only from the tourism point of view but also cultural, she also wanted to decentralize in a sense the culture, usually concentrated in big cities and just "large" regions, to give way even to small towns and especially in who live there, to create and enjoy "culture".

Each year the festival hosts artists of international caliber like the pianist Uri Caine, Steve Coleman, the Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen, and as well as large national jazz names, also give ample room to emerging groups Sardinian.

As always, the festival starts with his initial concert, on the ferry to Corsica ferries linking Sardinia the continent.music continues from morning to late evening.numerous locations, and the stage set up in the central square of town, where the evening concerts are held, but also rural churches, Mount Limbara, woodlands and countryside and the countries of logudorese gallura.

Since its inception, the festival every edition based on a specific theme around which the wheel is not only music but also other art forms that accompany the event: cinema, exhibitions, conferences, lectures, photography, theater.The fourteenth edition revolved around the theme "the dream of Orpheus" while the seventeenth edition, the theme was that of insanity.twenty-first edition in 2008 devoted to architecture, was followed in 2009, the XXII edition, which launched with the theme of water, a four-year cycle devoted to the four natural elements: water, air, earth and fire.

Time in jazz, as well as wants to be a musical event, an invitation, through the topics it deals, to respect the living environment and promote cultural diversity.for the latter reason, UNESCO, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, awarded in 2009 for its prestigious sponsorship in time in jazz.all fans of jazz music in this period spend Holidays In Sardinia Can not miss this incredible festival.