4th "calace" mandolin competition in pignola

[mike]

Just a brief information about the 4th edition of the "Calace" competition in Pignola (near Potenza) that will take place in August, 25-26.
As in 2006, this competition will take place with the organisation of the Italian Mandolin Federation and this year's category is mandolin with guitar.
You can find the announcement of this competition
here (http://www.federmandolino.it/file_pdf/Concorso_Raffaele_Calace_Pignola_2007_annuncio.pdf ) and today the competition rules and admission form (http://www.federmandolino.it/file_pdf/Concorso_Calace_2007_english.pdf) in english have been added (both pdf files).
Application deadline: 30th June 2007.
For any information, please contact Ms Fiorella Gallelli (the e-mail address can be found in the competition rules).
Mike

[Bob A]

Pehaps we should take up a collection and semd a representative?

[mike]

New deadline for application: 15th July 2007

Mike

[Embergher]

Hello all,

It's been a while since I've been on mandolincafé ... busy summer!

I've been asked to be a member of the jury for the R. Calace competition in Pignola. As mentioned above by Mike, this year the competition was for duets (mandolin+guitar).
It's been an interesting experience. I'm sure you understand I prefer not to discuss any details of the conversations between the jury members, but I can say that we decided not to attribute the 1st prize, so we started from the 2nd prize.

I made a video recording of the competition and (with permission of the players) I've uploaded some videos to Google video.
Here are the links to the performances of the 2nd prize winners, Alon Sariel (mandolin) & Francesca Gliglione (gutiar):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1691187495984466497
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2716979635531609799
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9086458165749451550
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5618538360020219751

... and the 3rd prize winners, Tiziano Palladino (mandolin) and Isidoro Nugnes (guitar):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8278343371453026421
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4753215600300329724
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1303645224627427593

(Alon Sariel has also been the 3rd prize winner of the recent competition for mandolin solo in Patraz, and Tiziano Palladino was the winner of the R. Calace competition for mandolin solo 2006.)

Enjoy the music! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif