Ginevra is accompanied on her journey by Francesco Magnelli (piano-magnellophones) and Stefano Saletti (guitar)
Lady Ginevra and the Moon Stations is a performance taking us back over the last ten years in Ginevra Di Marco's career focusing on discovering and rediscovering musical pieces in the popular tradition ranging from the Mediterranean basin to the shores of Latin America and beyond. In all these years Ginevra has met with faces, sounds and memories, embracing songs in different languages from the four corners of the world, interacting with artists on the national panorama in a musical and human interplay, and exploring important social issues that lie at the very heart of our contemporary way of life: employment, migration, corruption, the status of women and environmental sustainability. The whole, bound to the vast popular tradition that uses music as the vehicle to hand itself down from one generation to the next. During the concert a succession of different colours and emotions make room here and there also for the singer-songwriter heritage from which Ginevra sprung and to which she is indissolubly bound: Battiato, CSI, De André, Leo Ferrè and Modugno are only some of the mainstays characterising the Florentine singer's style in a concert designed to involve the audience in a ceaseless wave of emotion.
Ginevra Di Marco (Florence, 1970) first appeared on the scene in 1993 as a guest on "Ko de mondo", the CSI's first record. She was to remain with the Consorzio Suonatori Indipendenti for the next ten years. After that, Ginevra's career was marked by different artistic experiences and collaborations, including with Max Gazzè and Cristiano Godano from the Marlene Kuntz, both of them guests on her record “Trama tenue”. Collaboration with Francesco Magnelli led to the creation of her “Moon Stations; performance, an event that is renewed on each occasion with different artists stimulated by the prospect of taking part in a performance that is a genuine and participatory sharing of music. It is from there that she set out on her grand new journey, which took its cue from the tradition of her native Tuscany to expand and embrace the popular songs of the Mediterranean, leading to the recording of “Stazioni Lunari prende terra a Puerto Libre”, released in November 2006.
“Lady Ginevra” (2009), a journey deep into tradition and the sidelines of society rediscovering musical pieces as fragments of a submerged and forgotten history, sits in the same furrow. The record won the Targa Tenco 2009 for best performance. In 2011 Ginevra forged a wonderful partnership with the great scientist Margherita Hack: both Florentine, they decided to write a show telling the story of the 20th century and our country's most recent history. The result was "Earth's Soul Seen from the Stars". In 2015, in the context of the “Dedica Festival” in Pordenone Ginevra finally met up with writer Luis Sepúlveda. Their meeting was to spawn a poetic-musical reading entitled “Poems without a Homeland”. In 2018 Ginevra set out on a new journey in the company of Cristina Donà, a historic singer-songwriter on the independent Italian scene, and a record bearing the two artistes' names was released in 2019.
The exhibition is part of the new cultural palimpsest of Roma Capitale Romarama
