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Rating: Why attend a Marco Carta concert? Because we like it, or for a much more important reason. I was there for the second reason.
A dear friend, a few months ago, met Marco Carta at the airport and decided to approach him to tell his story. He explained to the singer that he was the father of a wonderful child named Lorenzo, who unfortunately faced complications during the expulsive phase of birth, and now finds himself battling with SPASTIC-DYSTONIC TETRAPARESIS WITH CORTICAL VISUAL IMPAIRMENT. He explained the willingness to embark on a project to raise funds to access certain very expensive treatments (OXYGEN THERAPY) not available in Sardinia. The singer then decided to give Lorenzo's parents the number of his manager, so they could contact him in case of an event to promote the cause.
What better occasion than the concert in Cagliari? The project finally saw the light (www.unsognoperlorenzo.com) and the opportunity for such great visibility was perfect for starting on the right foot. Additionally, there was the promise and willingness of the singer.
Lorenzo's parents decided to contact the manager, who made an appointment with them in the evening, in front of the concert entrance gates.
We arrived around 6 and for an hour couldn't reach the manager. Meanwhile, people began arriving in large numbers and our impotence made us nervous. We then asked the police for support to start the collection in front of the gates, but they denied us the possibility, citing phantom municipal authorizations, impossible to obtain on a Sunday evening! Too bad that after informing ourselves well in the following days, we discovered that none of that was needed!
The manager made contact around 7, announcing his arrival around 8. We decided to wait for him by starting the collection and thus, defying the police, displayed the banner and began collecting donations with the appropriate containers. We were 12 souls, including Lorenzo's parents.
The manager arrived and after a pointless chat, he disappeared. He thought our main intent was to enter the concert, all of us, for free. Wrong. We just wanted to have the banner brought in, with at most Lorenzo's parents following, hand the banner to Marco Carta, and display it to the audience, with a few words of explanation. Nothing extraordinary, tiring, costly, or overwhelming. Remember it was Marco Carta who offered the availability, just like his manager did that same Sunday afternoon.
The concert started, and we were still outside, including the banner. After half the concert, the phantom manager reappeared, giving us 4 VIP Passes (?!?) and disappearing once again. We decided to bring the banner inside with four of us. Unfortunately, the concert was in a very dark area of the fair, and in front of the stage was a (rightly) human wall of frenzied fans who weren't even remotely thinking of yielding a few millimeters to make the banner visible to the singer.
Despite everything, a friend managed to get in front of the stage, almost at the barriers, and displayed the banner. Marco Carta said the exact words: Nice banner, I like yellow...
We changed tactics and, after numerous exchanges and turns between those outside and those inside, opted to deliver the banner to a security guy. We found a very capable young man who immediately understood what we were talking about. He took the banner and, taking advantage of the singer's break, managed to hand it to him personally, also telling him what it was about. This was about an hour before the end of the concert.
However, the concert ended and the display of our banner to the public didn't happen. The same goes for any brief mention on an informative level. Nothing at all.
We only saw Marco Carta quickly get into a car waiting for him behind the stage, and with him, our banner. A yellow banner, 2 meters by 1, made of plastic material, specially produced by us friends of Lorenzo's parents, with a giant photo of Lorenzo and various information. Not a stupid messed-up sheet with love phrases, not a cardboard banner with a pasted photo of Marco Carta. No.
We found ourselves having to collect donations at the exit, taking advantage of the people leaving, without being able to display the banner that arouses curiosity and informs people, facilitating our purpose.
Around one o'clock, after contacting him, the manager showed up again. The usual useless and rhetorical blah blah blah and he left us saying that in a short time Marco Carta's driver would arrive to return the banner.
The driver arrived at about one-thirty. To go home, it would take us little more than half an hour. Some of us had the alarm set for 6 to go to work. First and foremost, Lorenzo's father!
THANK YOU Marco Carta, great concert!
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