We start again with a record. From tomorrow to Sunday, “L’Umbria che spacca“ returns with what is announced as “the biggest edition ever”. And to confirm the words of the organizers of Roghers Staff, the president Andrea Mancini and the artistic director Aimone Romizi, is the strength of numbers. For five days the festival will invade and animate Perugia with eight stages and a program packed with music, talks and meetings, from dawn to late at night with 30 concerts, over 200 artists, 59 bands but also 350 professionals, workers, volunteers and a thousand companies.
Now in its eleventh edition, the festival is truly one of the great cultural and musical events on the national scene, supported by a dense network of collaborations, as explained yesterday at Palazzo Donini. “It is an incredible machine made up of young people and volunteers,” said the President of the Region Donatella Tesei, “with so much culture and extraordinary music that young people and those who are young at heart love. It is an event that enriches the season of great summer events in Umbria.”
The star lineup on the ‘Main Stage’ at the Giardini del Frontone is amazing: starting tomorrow with the elegant and refined songwriting of Colapesce Dimartino, moving on to the more indie style of Fulminacci on Thursday and the quality and chart-topping pop of Mahmood who will start his Summer Tour 2024 from Perugia on Friday (already sold out) passing through the rap of Salmo and Noyz Narcos (Saturday, also sold out here). The grand finale on Sunday with the free-entry pop punk evening Rebel Sunday with La Sad, Vanilla (Ex Vanilla Sky) and Bambole di Pezza. Space for the young with the 9 winners of the ‘Coop Music Contest’ contest, every evening from 7 pm.
The Garden Stage, at the Medieval Botanical Garden, will offer three musical awakenings between yoga and dawn concerts with Casadilego, Micah P. Hinson and Any Other. At the Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, “La Galleria che spacca” returns, with interviews, art and music for four afternoons. Enrico Nigiotti, Dente, Michelangelo and Nada will perform with a new feature told by the director Costantino D’Orazio: “There will be conversations where I will solicit these artists in their relationship with art, from the Gallery’s collection to contemporary art”.
In collaboration with the University of Studies, “Unipg Stage” returns to the Agraria parking lot with formats from the most important Umbrian clubs enriched by special guests. A big new feature is “UniStraPg Stage”, the social outreach stage created with the University for Foreigners, on the terrace of Palazzo Gallenga to talk about gender violence, accessible culture and discrimination in the cultural industry. Another new feature is “StageGpt”, an area with panels dedicated to artificial intelligence organized in collaboration and with the support of the Region, at the Tangram in via Bonfigli. There will also be a “Chill Area” in front of the Monument to the Fallen of Borgo XX Giugno and “Deejays for Breakfast”, breakfasts with music at T-Trane.
Present at the meeting with Governor Tesei and Mayor Vittoria Ferdinandi, Daniele Parbuono, delegate rector of the University, Francesco Asdrubali, vice-rector of the University for Foreigners, Costantino D’Orazio, director of the National Gallery and Fabrizio Stazi, general director of the Perugia Foundation
