The Sani Festival of Halkidiki celebrates this year 20 years of wonderful jazz and world musicians of the international and Greek scene, that he has given us. The festival will take place this summer from 13 July until 28 August.

The organizers proudly report on this important anniversary of the festival:

From idea to practice, the road is not necessarily long. This year's 20th anniversary Sani Festival comes to confirm the conquest of both, a real triumph for the originators, organizers, participants and background workers over the years. We are entitled, we think, to feel great pride in how with hard work and persistence we achieved a wish that was expressed 20 years before realizing her and leading her beautifully into adulthood, working responsibly, sincerity, respect and consistency, both in relation to the cultural product we chose to manage and in relation to the audience-receiver who embraced us from the first moment. 20 years now, Sani Festival serves talent, the ethos, the professionalism, ultimately produces culture.

Autonomous carrier of great response, evolved steadily upwards: it started with Jazz on the Hill, to then add thematic sections around classical music, τo Sounds of the World, the Greek pulsating scene, established but also experimental. And still, added to his interests was the magic engendered by film music, the attraction exerted by legendary names such as Michel Legrand or Peter Greenaway who graced his stage, the "third" cultural dimension of the visual space, the theatrical immediacy and so many other interests that were "born" in the summers at Lofo tis Sani. 20 years later, and thanks to the symbolism of the number that confirms the Sani Festival, we enjoy success and celebrate. And this celebration, trust us, it will be directly proportional in quality and surprises to the course of the festival over the years.

Highlights of this year's program

Some of these surprises are heard in the names of great musicians of the international and domestic scene, such as the American jazz musician Ahmad Jamal one of the most important exponents of jazz since 1945 and after, second in the relative "hierarchy" after Charlie Parker. He will appear at Lofo tis Sani on 14 July as part of Jazz on the Hill -13,14,15/7-, while in 21 of the same month and within the framework of Sounds of the World, will take to the festival stage for an exclusive concert across Europe, ο Ishmael Lo, African blues star, leading representative of this musical idiom. Soon the entire program will be announced, which will include concerts with resounding Greek names who will present musical creations set up especially for the 20 years of the Sani Festival.

Sani Festival Artistic Director: Olga Tambouri-Bambali

Sani Festival is an official member of the International Festival Association of Europe (I.F.E.A. – International Festivals and Events Association Europe)

Info

Location Lofos tis Sani, Chalcidice
Date From 13 July until 28 August 2012
Information www.sanifestival.gr

Source : culturenow.gr