Pistoia, 21 June 2024 – Twenty-first June, summer finally arrives. Solstice to celebrate even more if this means “Summer rainbow“, the program of extended initiatives promoted by the Tuscany Region together with the newspaper The nation with the support of Toscana Promozione Turistica, Fondazione Sistema Toscana and Vetrina Toscana and with the participation of Confcommercio Prato Pistoia for our area. For Pistoia “Arcobaleno” is equivalent to saying “Music Festival”, following that anniversary officially sanctioned at European level in 1994, in Pistoia declined in a series of events lined up by the Municipality itself. “Summer rainbow – were the words of the President of the Region Eugenio Giani – is the framework that allows us to focus on our beautiful region. These initiatives help us to promote Tuscany for citizens, for tourists and for the ‘economy”. “For twelve years we have believed in this initiative – underlined the director of the newspapers Qn, La Nazione, Il Giorno and Il Resto del Carlino Agnese Pini – which did not stop even with Covid, with a special look precisely at the Tuscan citizens and the rediscovery of the beauty of this region”.
And let there be music, starting from the first appointment today at 5pm, in the National Gallery where students from the Pistoia music schools perform. The set changes at 5.30pm and it’s the San Giorgio Library for a talk on “Sanremo, Italy” by Matteo Mori who here, through a selection of songs, wants to tell how Sanremo has tried over the years to follow Italy.
From 6pm to 8pm, new to this edition, at the town hall ‘Progetto Toscana, the places that dance’, a series of traveling performances (curated by Asd Danzare Cecchetti Ancec Italia). At 6.30pm, at the Il Giardino della Parole bookshop, the book “L’Arber del Tenere” by Alessandro Andrei will be presented, while in sequence from 7pm, in Via Cavour, DJ sets by Radio Pistoia Web, Pistoia by night live edition and Orkestraccia. In the meantime, from 8pm, in Piazza Mandela alle Fornaci, summer solstice celebration, with square dancing and orchestra.
At 9.15pm, in the courtyard of the Magnolia concert lesson “Per il vero vero”, with the voice of Simone Lenzi and the guitar of Antonio Bardi, respectively the singer (as well as author of lyrics) and guitarist of Virginiana Miller, a band from Livorno with a long career and a David di Donatello behind him for the song “Tutti i santi giorno”, soundtrack of the film of the same name by Paolo Virzì. The lesson is based on the book of the same title written by Lenzi, which dealt with staves, words and big names in Italian and international music. A story also for those who do not know the grammar of music and solfeggio. At the end of the day, a show dedicated to the 60s (Piazza della Sala, 9.30 pm) and Afro Latin rock rhythms with Jingo Biloba (9.30 pm, Piazza dello Spirito Santo).
