A support program for associations engaged in popular music activities was established by the Region on an exceptional basis in order to provide one-off, flat-rate and non-accountable contributions, to promote and support the activity of the sector that has suffered a stop for the continuation of the Covid emergency.
"Due to the drastic decrease in events, travel and meeting opportunities - underlines the commissioner Andrea Biancareddu - various associations were unable to spend the contribution and savings in resources that cannot be reprogrammed and therefore not used during the year were found. 2021 ". 2022, the commissioner hopes, could represent" the moment of full resumption of popular musical activities as well. "
The interventions recognize the function of social and cultural promotion of Sardinian folk and traditional music and its diffusion throughout the region. "The simplified support program - explains the Region - provides for the purchase of musical instruments, the improvement and completion of functional equipment for the exercise of the activity, carrying out musical activities through the realization of shows, band and choral concerts or other similar events, organization of even competitive events and provincial and regional gatherings, participation in national and international competitive events reserved for particularly qualified groups and the organization of conferences and carrying out the normal activities of the Association ".
For 2022, grants are granted “taking into account the expenses incurred in the year preceding the submission of the application. The same have a fixed measure, staggered according to the bands established by the calculation of the flat-rate contributions 2022. Only the associations and musical bands, instrumental groups of Sardinian music, polyphonic choral groups and island folk groups can take advantage of the contributions ". Also included are the "cantadores", "poetas improvisadores", "cantadores a chiterra", tenor songs, traditional Sardinian choirs, polyphonic choirs in Sardinian, Italian or foreign language, Sardinian music instrumental groups that eventually include vocal elements (in Sardinian language).
