May Day Concert in Rome: Noemi and Ermal Meta to Host, Lineup Revealed

After Noemi and Ermal Meta were announced as hosts for the May Day concert in Rome in recent days, the names of the first artists who have confirmed their attendance at the event promoted by Cgil, Cisl, Uil have also arrived. On the stage of the Circus Maximus will be: Achille Lauro, Coez and Frah Quintale, Colapesce Dimartino, Dargen D'Amico, La Rappresentante di Lista, Malika Ayane, Piero Pelù, and Rose Villain. The Concertone will, as always, be free entry. It will be broadcast from 15:15 to 00:15 (with a break from 19:00 to 20:00 for the news editions) live on Rai 3 and Rai Radio 2 and will be aired on RaiPlay and Rai Italia. Noemi and Ermal Meta, replacing Ambra Angiolini (at the helm of the Concertone since 2018) are joined by BigMama, who will host the first part of the event from 13:15 (exclusively for Rai Play). The artistic line of the Concertone 2024 will develop around the concept 'Listening to the Future #1M2024', with the intention of marking a new important stage in the musical narrative that May Day has been carrying forward for some time, in an attempt to tell the present of the vibrant national music scene, imagining its future. As every year, there will be 3 winning artists of the 1MNEXT Contest through which the May Day Concert searches for new talents who, selected through various phases of selection, will then be invited to perform during the Concertone 2024. The 3 winners will be selected during the live final on April 18 in Rome (behind closed doors), through the vote of the Quality Jury composed of: Massimo Bonelli (artistic director of the May Day Concert, jury president), Sara Potente (artistic director Numero Uno/Sony Music), Lucia Stacchiotti (iCompany), Annarita Masullo (The Goodness Factory) and Simona Orlando (Rockol). One of the 3 will finally be awarded during the live TV broadcast on May Day as the winner of 1MNEXT 2024. The 12 finalists of 1MNEXT 2024, selected through the vote of the Quality Jury and popular web Jury, are: Atarde (Ancona), Belly Button and Il Coro Onda (Rome), Didi (Lendinara - RO), Frà Sorrentino (Marino - RM), Giglio (Turin), La musica di forte (Copertino - LE), Macadamia (Rome), Margherita Principi (Fano - PU), Moonari (Rome), Soloperisoci (Rome), Tigri da Soggiorno (Rome) and Velia (Rome). Absolute winners of previous editions of the Contest were La Rua (2015), Il Geometra Mangoni (2016), Incomprensibile FC (2017), La Municipàl (2018), I Tristi (2019), Nervi (2020), Cargo (2021), Mille (2022) and Still Charles (2023).