I desire to send my greetings to the cultural association “Padre Candido Donatelli” and to its president Mario Orsini who even this year has organized “The International Musical Band Festival”.

The festival is at the 10th edition and represents an attraction for the town of Giulianova which is a flourishing tourist place.

I have presented, as a convinced supporter, a law plan in the Parliament with the intent of communicating and valorizing musical bands, non professional choirs and folk groups that represent a very important value of the Italian cultural musical tradition and that are present everywhere on the whole national territory, even in the small towns far from the big cities.

Such groups besides the cultural function, even develop an action of social aggregation pushing, above all, young people to taste and live the music as protagonists with all the suggestions and emotions that this involvement produces.

These forms of an artistic expression don't simply represent a musical moment; in them it’s possible to notice features that belong to the affective and cultural sphere of the national community, that contribute to the construction of a human identity in symbiosis with their own born territory.

I wish this event a great success with my best regards

Sandro Bondi