"Happy May 1st and good concert to everyone . I would have liked to be there but I think my invitation has been lost ". It is the message posted in an Instagram story by Fedez .

A message that has more than a sarcastic edge. The rapper's reference is clear: the controversies of the 2021 concert , when he was the protagonist of a long dispute with Rai and with the organizers, accused by him of having wanted to censor him .

As for the 2022 edition, the themes of precarious work and also the war in Ukraine dominated the extra-musical interventions on the stage set up as usual in Piazza San Giovanni in Rome, with multiple appeals for peace, also on notes of John Lennon's iconic song "Imagine ". The presenter Ambra Angiolini also showed off for the occasion a blue and yellow sweater , colors of the Ukrainian national flag, spending, moved , words against the conflict.

The protagonist, however, was obviously the music . Among the guests Marco Mengoni and Max Pezzali , both at their first time in Piazza San Giovanni , and then Carmen Consoli, Ornella Vanoni, Coez, Rkomi, Tommaso Paradiso, Willie Peyote, Fabrizio Moro, Enrico Ruggeri, Le Vibrazioni. Luca Barbarossa, Bandabardò and Cisco, Coma Cose, The Representative of Lista, Clementino and the Orchestraccia and many other known and emerging voices.

(Unioneonline / lf)

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