Padua, the record-breaking Holi celebrates 10 years of success at Sherwood
On Saturday 8 June, Italy’s most famous Color Festival celebrates its tenth anniversary at the Sherwood Festival, where all the magic of colored powders began. Special Guests: Pastaboys. Entrance to the event for only €1. The organizers: “In these ten years we have colored over 900 thousand people throughout Italy. We are happy to return to the Padua stage, it is precisely here that our adventure began in 2014″. The other dates of the Holi summer tour will be coming soon
Holi – the most famous festival of colors in Italy, symbol of joy, love and genuine fun, this year celebrates 10 years of life with the new summer tour “10 YEARS ANNIVERSARY”. A decade full of music and emotions that won over 900 thousand Holi lovers across the peninsula, registering sold out at every stop between beaches, parks and cities. We also remember that it is the only and original Holi to have entered cinemas as the protagonist in the film “Forever Young” by director Fausto Brizzi.
After the first stop in the Veronese area last April, the organizational machine is ready to flood the city of Padua with colorful fun. In fact, on Saturday 8 June Holi returns to a very special location for the whole team, namely the Sherwood Festival, in the north car park of the Euganeo Stadium. It is a very important stage for the organizers Fabio Lazzari and Marco Bari, because it is the stage where all the magic began. “We are happy to return to the Padua stage, it is precisely here that our great adventure began in 2014 which took us all over Italy. It will be a spectacular stage.”
The formula on Saturday is simple, every hour from 6pm until midnight, after the countdowns from the mainstage the multicolored powders will be thrown into the sky accompanied by lots of music. The special guests of this stage are the Bolognese DJ Pastaboys. The pioneers of DJ style and the Italian underground phenomenon, Dino Angioletti, DJ Uovo and DJ Rame have been working together since 1995 and are united by their great passion for club music with black soul, jazz and latin nuances. Also sharing the stage are the inevitable Holi resident DJs, Andrea Martini, Andrea De Luca and Bruce Blayne and the masters of ceremonies Moova and Mario Scognamiglio. Followed by an afterparty until 2 in the second stage with TrashDance.
Entrance to the event for only €1. All the info and updates on the next stages on www.holitour.it.
The fame of the festival is now known to everyone, but few know where this format comes from which inspired the two event managers, Fabio Lazzari from Treviso and Marco Bari from Vicenza. During the Indian festival called “Holi” entire populations of the villages of India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan throw bags of colored powders and water balloons at each other to celebrate rebirth and love and the definitive defeat of evil in favor of good. The anniversary falls in spring and brings universal positive messages of friendship, brotherhood and love.
Lazzari and Bari: “The festival we have created is a vehicle to convey the genuine values of this ancient anniversary and above all to demonstrate the spirit of solidarity that underlies everything and for which we created the festival.” In fact, what distinguishes Holi the Festival of Colors from other formats that imitate it in the wake of the virality of the phenomenon, is the solidarity purpose. Since the festival’s debut, Lazzari and Bari have allocated part of the proceeds to the Forgotten Brothers Foundation which helps hearing-impaired children in a village in India. The Fratelli Dimenticati Foundation is a non-profit organization from Cittadella, in the Padua area, which finances a project in Nandanagar, a village in North-East India where the Ferrando School was established in 2006, an institute which welcomes hearing-impaired children with the aim of intervene early in the diagnosis and treatment of deafness through therapeutic pathways.
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