The Barnasants Festival presents a special concert this Sunday, February 22nd, at the Paral·lel 62 venue (9 pm), featuring Italian artist Carmen Consoli and the Catalan Root Music Orchestra (OMAC). The performance brings together two expressive forces with distinct yet complementary trajectories. Together, they will perform, for the first time, material from the album... Amure luci (Narciso Records, 2025) by the Sicilian artist, who intensely explores her cultural and linguistic roots, uniting tradition and modernity. "I wanted to go back to the roots. Linguistically, from ancient Greek and Latin to Sicilian. And literarily, the album also traces the entire history of the island, including the Arab period," explains Consoli, who, in addition to her own verses, sings of Latin poets like Ovid, Sicilian poets like Nina de Nina from the 20th century, and draws inspiration from others such as the 12th-century Arab-Sicilian poet Ibn Hamdis, as she mentioned this Friday at a press conference in Barcelona. Consoli, born in Catania in 1974, is combative by nature and politically opposed to the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, with whom she has had more than one verbal clash. She defends Sicilian as a "language of protest." "When I sing in Italian, I'm more poetic," she asserts. Regarding Sicilian, she explains that it is "a minority language with a rich literature and wonderful poetry." "It's talked about, it's very much alive, and it's taught at the university, although not in schools," he reports.