New Year’s Concert 2023 at the Politeama with Francesco Gabbani. The singer, who has twice won the Sanremo Festival – in 2016 among the “New Proposals” with the song Amen and in 2017 in the “Big” category with the song Occidentali’s Karma – will lead Palermo into the new year.
The show will be hosted by the actor and TV and radio presenter Sergio Friscia: on the stage in Piazza Politeama, in addition to Gabbani, other local artists and singers will also perform, who will enliven the evening until midnight, when the beginning of 2023 will be celebrated.
Among the proposals for the organization of New Year’s Eve, the Municipality has selected that of the ATI, made up of GoMad Concerti srls, Utopia srls and Associazione Culturale Wilder, which “made an economical offer within the budget limits foreseen for the event, quantified to 290,000 euros, including legal fees”. This is what it says in a note from the Giunta, which approved the guidelines for the organization of the concert at the suggestion of the City Councilor for Cultural Policy Giampiero Cannella. The awards are for “the artistic quality and the guarantee of exclusivity of the artists involved”.
“The administration – explains the Mayor Roberto Lagalla – is making every possible effort to offer the city moments of leisure, entertainment and conviviality during the end-of-year celebrations. For all this I must thank the Ministry of Culture, which has coordinated the activities and is networking with to all realities and business associations that have made a significant contribution to the organization of events in all districts and, after the two-year pandemic-related stoppage, a long-awaited moment of the concert is now returning square”.
“The New Year’s Concert – stresses Councilor Cannella – will be a nice showcase for Palermo: it was a moment that the city had been waiting for a long time and we are happy to have given the people of Palermo a program of events that started with the concert at the Piazza Politeama, but which will continue until the Epiphany”.