List of music festivals in Italy

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Italian music festivals Below is a list of music festivals in Italy :

## Festivals

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* 10 Pianos Street is a charitable festival held in different cities each year.
* Agglutination Metal Festival in Sant'Arcangelo Founded in 1995, it is the oldest Metal Music Festival in Italy.[1]
* Arena di Verona Opera during the summer months in the Roman amphitheater in Verona.[2]
* Arezzo Wave in Arezzo Pop and Rock music founded in 1987.[3]
* Dissonanze focused on electronic music, ran from 2000 to 2010.[4]
* Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of the two Worlds) in Spoleto Held since 1957, it has a program of symphonic music, opera, dance and jazz.[5]
* Festival della canzone italiana or the San Remo Festival is a popular song contest held in Sanremo since 1951[6]
* Festival di Napoli was a Neapolitan song contest which ran from (1952–1971, 1981, 1998–2004)
* Festival Verdi, mainly in Parma, is dedicated to the music of Verdi.
* Folkest in Spilimbergo[7]
* Gods of Metal in Milan[8]
* Heineken Jammin Festival in Venice is a pop/rock festival founded in 1998.[9]
* Independent Days Festival is a pop/rock festival in Bologna and Milan founded in 1999.[10]
* InterHarmony International Music Festival is a classical music festival in Acqui Terme, Piedmont, Italy and InterHarmony was founded in 2007.[11]
* Liri Blues Festival Is a Blues festival founded in 1988 held in Isola del Liri, near Rome.[12]
* Live Arts Week in Bologna - founded in 2011 when audio visual festival Netmage and contemporary arts festival F.I.S.Co. were combined.
* Mandrea Music Festival in Trento. Four day festival of Folk, Reggae, Rock and Electronic music in the Italian Alps overlooking Lake Garda.[13]
* Maggio Musicale Fiorentino a selection of classical concerts generally from October through April in Florence.
* Music Fest Perugia Classical music in Perugia,
* Pescara Jazz Jazz music Festival in Pescara (from 1969).
* Piccola Accademia di Montisi in Montisi, Tuscany takes place every year in July. A festival devoted to the music of the harpsichord and early music/instruments[14][15]
* Pistoia Blues Festival is a blues festival that takes place every July in Pistoia, Tuscany. The first edition was held in 1980[16]
* Play It Loud! Festival in Orzinuovi
* Porretta Soul Festival in Porretta Terme
* Ravello Festival
* Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro is dedicated to the music of Rossini.[17]
* Rototom Sunsplash started as a two-day reggae music festival in Gaio di Spilimbergo in 1995, before moving to Benicàssim in Spain in 2009.[18]
* Sagra Musicale Malatestiana in Rimini[19]
* Surfer Joe Summer Festival is a four-day surf music festival founded in 2003 at Livorno.[20]
* Tempo Reale[21]
* Umbria Jazz Festival In Perugia, generally in July.

## External links

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Top 10 Most Important Music Festivals in Italy in 2023

## References

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1. ^ "Comune di Chiaromonte (Pz): il sindaco risponde alla minoranza sull'"Agglutination Metal Festival"". Oltre Free Press (in Italian). 8 September 2018. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
2. ^ Bain, Andrew (28 February 2020). "A night at the opera". The Australian. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
3. ^ Bardi, Silvia (4 April 2020). "Dallo stadio a casa, la storia di Arezzo Wave in tv sul canale 214. Trent'anni di musica" [From the stadium to home, the story of Arezzo Wave on TV on channel 214]. La Nazione (in Italian). Retrieved 18 April 2020.
4. ^ Damir, Ivic (27 December 2016). "Dissonanze, in memoriam". Red Bull (in Italian). Retrieved 18 April 2020.
5. ^ Ferrara, Maria Domenica (3 April 2020). "Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto: sospesa l'edizione 2020". Teatro (in Italian). Retrieved 18 April 2020.
6. ^ "Sanremo Music Festival kicks off tonight". Ecs Today. 12 March 2011. Archived from the original on 12 March 2011. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
7. ^ "Loreena McKennitt in Castello a Udine per Folkest". Il Friuli (in Italian). 17 July 2019. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
8. ^ DiVita, Joe. "Rammstein Unveil New Song at Gods of Metal Festival". Loudwire. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
9. ^ Mancinelli, Marco (24 February 2020). "Vasco Rossi, Imola 1998: la nascita della rockstar". Shockwave Magazine (in Italian). Retrieved 18 April 2020.
10. ^ "I days 2020: Vasco, Foo Fighters, Billie Eilish. Programma e biglietti". Donne Sul Web (in Italian). 27 November 2019. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
11. ^ "InterHarmony International Music Festival" (in Italian). 15 May 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
12. ^ "Veroli – Liri Blues Festival, ecco il programma della XXXI edizione". TG24 (in Italian). 16 June 2018. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
13. ^ Coldwell, Will (5 May 2015). "10 of the best festivals in Europe ... that you've probably never heard of". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
14. ^ "- Domenico Scarlatti wiederentdeckt". Deutschlandfunk (in German). Retrieved 25 April 2020.
15. ^ "Montisi Festival". Goldberg Magazine. 11 July 2007. Archived from the original on 27 July 2008. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
16. ^ "Pistoia Blues Festival, presentata a Roma una proposta di legge a favore della manifestazione" [Pistoia Blues Festival, a bill presented in Rome in favor of the event]. Nove da Firenze (in Italian). 12 April 2019. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
17. ^ "Three dream holidays for music lovers". The Telegraph. 8 April 2020. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
18. ^ "Rototom Sunsplash Reveals Full List of 2018 Performers, Looks Back on 25 Years: Exclusive". Billboard. 13 June 2018. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
19. ^ "Venerdì 28 giugno l'anteprima della Sagra Musicale Malatestiana con 300 giovani musicisti". Altarimini.it (in Italian). 26 June 2019. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
20. ^ "The largest gathering of surf music fans in the world". Indie Voyager. 10 May 2019. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
21. ^ "'AUNDICI': musica underground fra Firenze, Prato, Pistoia, Pisa". Intoscana (in Italian). 11 February 2020. Retrieved 18 April 2020.

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