The European Children's Song Festival returns to the city of Trento on 16 and 17 March 2024 at the Teatro Auditorium Santa Chiara

The event, created by children for children, represents the final phase of the "Un Testo per noi" competition promoted by the Coro Piccole Columne APS, which invited Italian primary school classes to write, with the coordination of their teacher, the text of a song.

The eight winning classes (including about thirty), whose songs have been set to music by great national artists – Al Bano, Franco Fasano and many others - will share the stage with the Coro Piccole Colonne, who will perform the songs: the small "lyricists" will be responsible for animating their song with splendid choreography. During the two shows, some special prizes will also be awarded, announced today.

From 11 March, moreover, eight shop windows in the centre of Trento will be set up thematically with songs thanks to the "Turn the Showcase" initiative, which traditionally accompanies the event.

The European Children's Song Festival, the concluding moment of the Un Testo per noi competition, promoted by the Coro Piccole Columne APS and aimed at primary school classes, returns with the 17thedition that will take place on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 March at the Auditorium Santa Chiara in Trento.

The details were illustrated this morning during a press conference by Adalberta Brunelli (artistic director of the Coro Piccole Colonne), Maria Antonietta Ventre (president of the Fondazione Mariele Ventre), Paolo Bergamo (president of the Federazione Cori del Trentino), Enrico Faes (president of the Consorzio Trento Iniziative), in the presence of Elisabetta Bozzarelli (Councillor for Culture of the Municipality of Trento).

The event, born in Trento in 1991, returns to the capital, where it was missing since 2006, thanks to the intense and prolonged commitment of the Coro Piccole Colonne, which has its headquarters in Trento. A return confirmed by the fact that thisyear Trento is the European Capital of Volunteering, with the mandate to enhance the free contribution to the collective well-being of associations, groups, people engaged in the most disparate fields, including that of the growth and development of children in the richness of music.

Trentino will also be on the stage of the Festival: among the eight winning classes there is in fact the class before the Primary School of Pieve di Bono – Price (the winning classes are presented below).

The two shows will be presented again by Lorenzo Branchetti (who already led the Festival in 2016, 2018 and 2022), known as the elf Milo Cotogno, protagonist of the historic "Melevisione" programme broadcast on Rai channels. 

Children's songs are always the mirror of their world and thisyear in particular they talk about school and what we learn every day (from prepositions to numbers), but also about holidays and leisure, positive emotions and the importance of sport, without forgetting the attention to the environment and reuse.