Nuoro sang, danced, and refused to stop. With the curtain falling on the 27th edition of "Voci di Maggio," it's time to take stock, and the numbers speak for themselves: over fifteen thousand people attended in total, with Piazza Italia packed to the rafters on each evening. A result that exceeded all expectations, considering that after just the first two days, the organizers had already announced more than six thousand attendees.
Gigi Sanna of Istentales, the event's creators, sums it up, and doesn't hide his pride. "It was a huge success," he says. And one of the things that struck him most was the diversity of the audience: "The Vibrazioni attracted mostly people in their thirties, the Nomadi attracted those in their sixties and older, while Dolcenera, who performed with us Istentales, managed to get everyone on board, being so diverse." A celebration, in short, capable of bringing different generations together in the same collective embrace. The success isn't limited to the concerts. There was also a great turnout for the screening of the documentary "Istentales: 30 Years of Music Under the Stars," held in the ISRE Hall, where forty students from Suni, along with schools from Nuoro, showed up. The morning, dedicated to the group's thirty-year career, also included a conference on combating femicide and gender-based violence and the donation of proceeds from the song "Promesse Mascherate" to the Onda Rosa Association, a testament to an event that combines music and civic engagement.
But for Sanna, the gamble was also a success on the economic front. Businesses and hospitality businesses benefited from significant revenue, and for the organizers, it was particularly gratifying to see the city so crowded, with so many visitors taking advantage of their presence in Nuoro to discover the MAN, the Ethnographic Museum of Costume, the Deleddian Museum, and "everything our Sardinian Athens has to offer." It's no coincidence that already halfway through, Sanna emphasized that this edition had been designed to best celebrate Nobel Prize winner Grazia Deledda, with a festival that finally opened to prominent figures, usually more accustomed to coastal towns.
Thus concludes an edition that leaves behind not only memories and music, but the certainty that Nuoro, when it gets involved, knows how to respond with enthusiasm. And the next "Voci di Maggio" is already in the hearts of thousands of people.
