From The Ferrara Buskers Festival® returns from 26 to 30 August 2020, which now in its 33rd edition, is the spokesperson for the message of hope that perhaps only music and its desire to participate can give.
Stephen Buttons, creator and artistic director of Ferrara Buskers Festival®, e Rebecca Buttons, president of the event, have thought of a more streamlined program, which takes into account some limitations of use, to guarantee the absolute safety of the artists and the public.
It will be one limited edition very special and with attention to detail of Ferrara Buskers Festival®, with a musical proposal of the highest quality, with the best 15 busker band Europe, selected from over 700 requests who will play in 5 historic locations in the city, such as the Garden of Palazzo dei Diamanti, the Courtyard of Palazzo Crema, the Cloister of San Paolo, the Courtyard of the Estense Castle and Palazzo Roverella.
The protagonists of Ferrara Buskers Festival® will be the newcomers: beranger (Australia, France), Giorgia Job (Italia) Hot Club Du Nax (Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, England), Level Spaces (Brazil, Australia), Sissos (Australia), which they will join AmberMarie (Italia) Cosmonautix (Germany, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria), Daiana Lou (Italia) Enrico Cipollini Duo (Italia) Marco Sbarbati Duo (Italia) Rupert's Kitchen Orchestra (Germany), The Orange Beat (Italy, Holland), The Trouble Notes (United States, United Kingdom, Austria), Tribubus (Ivory Coast, Spain), All Good trio (France).
The Ferrara Buskers Festival® will be preceded – on Tuesday 25th August – by a preview in Comacchio (FE). The evening will open, at 19.00 pm, with the concert in the enchanting scenery of the Salina and will continue, from 21.30 pm to midnight, in the center of the town on the Po Delta, with the musicians who will perform in particularly suggestive places such as the Palazzo Bellini and the square behind it, the Trepponti, the square Museo del Delta Antico and the Manifattura dei Marinati.
The inauguration of the festival will be officially held in Ferrara on Wednesday 26 August, with an evening of total openness to the arts. Between 18.00 and 19.00, the musicians will meet the public in a series of aperitifs in the venues of the Este city and from 18.30 space for musical appointments, one of all, the concert of Raffaele Kohler, the Milanese trumpeter who, in the days of lockdown, it sounded O my beautiful Madunina behind the windows of his house.
From Thursday 27 to Saturday 29 August, the Ferrara Buskers Festival® will offer concerts by the 15 selected bands, from 20.00 pm to midnight.
The Ferrara Buskers Festival® will close Sunday 30 August with the concerts of buskers overseas who, not being able to participate physically, will perform their songs in streaming, transmitted on ledwall installed at the Estense Castle, and on the social platforms of the event, offering the audience a tour of the virtual musical world.
The use of new technologies will in fact be one of the characteristics of the 2020 edition, to allow a larger number of people to follow the artists' performances. On the website of the event (www.ferrarabuskers.com), the social channels of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, in addition to the blog platform of medium.com(medium.com/ferrara-buskers-festival) where you can read insights, stories, press reviews and much more.
All the films, testimonials and photographs collected this year will enrich the multimedia archive of the Ferrara Buskers Festival®, the largest in the world, dedicated to street artists.
The Festival was the first Italian cultural event, ecological and sustainable, to be certified ISO 20121. The Buskers GREEN project it is an initiative which, in addition to having obtained important recognitions such as the Culture in Green Award and the patronage of the Ministry of the Environment, has become a reference model for similar events, especially in terms of waste management.
Ferrara Buskers Festival® is organized by the Ferrara Buskers Festival Association, with the patronage of the Municipality of Ferrara, the MiBACT - Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, the Emilia-Romagna Region, the Chamber of Commerce of Ferrara, with the support of HERA; media partner Berlin magazine and Radio Bruno.
Ferrara Buskers Festival® is the most important and longest-running festival in the world dedicated to street musicians.
The project was born in 1987, from an idea by Stefano Bottoni, still today the artistic director of the event. Music lover and musician himself, Stefano Bottoni, after a trip to New York, understood how important it was to enhance the figure of the street musician – the buskers – whose performances are often banned in many cities around the world. His intuition was to give the festival an international dimension: in fact, in recent years hundreds of artists from all over the planet have arrived in Ferrara, eager to share their art. Of note, in 1989, the incognito participation of Lucio Dalla, who wanted to accept Stefano Bottoni's invitation, performing with his clarinet to the astonishment of the crowd.
Each edition is dedicated to a different country or international city, where most of the invited artists come from, with the aim of creating new cultural relationships.
