It's almost 24 hours since the artists for Sanremo festival 2018 were announced and as Italian Eurovision fans are in despair for the passable Eurovision artists among the artist chosen by Claudio Baglioni and his team two things are rather striking at first glance: It's nearly all male cast. And most of them are... err... rather elderly. In fact, with a quick count (excluding the groups) the average age is 51,5 years. Giovanni Caccamo is the youngest at 28 (and the only under 30) while Ornella Vanoni is already 83... She's one of the four female singers among the big with Nina Zilli, Noemi and Annalisa . The media had most of the acts right beforehand but some like Ron came out of the blue, as well as the artists performing with discussed artists in duets or trio: Diodato, Bungaro, Pacifico and Peppe Servillo. Max Gazzé was mentioned (and I forgot to add him in my previous post below, oops) Several previous winners are in the list: I Pooh won ...