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At the spearhead of Taiwan’s vibrant indigenous music movement Abus draws on her Amis & Bunun ancestry infused with the pulse of one of Asia’s leading creative hotspots, Taipei. Nominated for 6 music awards in Taiwan’s Golden Melody awards Abus will share a set of songs across the diversity of her career grounded in her Indigenous perspective.

C.A.F.É. (Coletivo Afro-tropical de Fusão Étnica) is a multicultural music group made up of musicians from Brazil, Angola, Italy and Greece. They offer an afro-tropical musical journey, blending rhythms that range from Cuba to Cape Verde, passing through Brazil and Angola.

From Toronto, Canada, David Celia is an innovative songwriter and astonishing guitar player, known for his spontaneously driven live performances. He tours frequently across Canada/Europe including Glastonbury Festival. 
David is joined by his band, including sons Marcus and Lucas for this tour. Together, they sing catchy, “Feel good but think” songs with 3-part harmony, playing many musical improvisations.

After more than a decade of adventures as Angry Gentlemen, the two long-standing souls of the award-winning Romagna quartet bring together their respective solo paths — Dog (one-man band) and Mosquito Boogie (killer harp player) — to create a vibrant and high-energy show. With their ears always tuned to the crackling sound of old records from the 1920s and ’30s, they revive, each time, the authentic pleasure of playing the Devil’s music.

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Dub Lab Interceptor Hi-Fi is a sound system crew from Pennabilli and has been curating the Dub Garden since 2014. They will light up the space with four explosive nights dedicated to Reggae and Dub music and culture, joined by loyal local selectors Spiritual Youth and Red Roots.

Eve Nikolao is a Samoan multi-instrumentalist, singer, and performer whose work draws deeply from the musical traditions of her fa'asinomaga – her islander heritage. Winner of Samoan idol, Eve’s first album followed leading to an international, musical career. Eve will share an intimate musical perspective grounded in one of the Pacific’s most vibrant cultures. 

Flaira Ferro is a singer, songwriter and art educator from Pernambuco, known for her contribution to Brazilian music with a fusion of regional and modern rhythms. With a career marked by performances at renowned festivals and collaborations with leading artists, Flaira is one of the rising voices of Northeastern music.

Hodmadoddery draw on the British festival tradition with an acoustic folk sound centred on the harmony of voices and guitars. Rather than simply playing familiar songs, they create an atmosphere all their own, shaped by years of performing on the streets and at festivals in Italy and back home. Their approach remains proudly purist, but always with an easy, relaxed spirit.

Celebrating 40 years of music and 15 years of performances in Pennabilli, King Ben and his Rhythm Sticks bring together five versatile musicians with a boundless love of live performance. From Mbaqanga to rock ’n’ roll, from jazz to funk, their concerts are a lively mix of musicality, joy and pure entertainment.

This year, the band King Ben and his Rhythm Sticks celebrates its 40th anniversary and marks 15 years of performances in Pennabilli. Five spirited musicians with an extraordinary versatility, they move effortlessly across musical styles, from Mbaqanga to rock ’n’ roll, from jazz to funk. Musicality, joy, and entertainment come together in the vibrant and surprising sound of this eclectic ensemble.

The band members are:
Ben Kleiss – saxophone, vocals
Jaap van der Voet – keyboards
Mark Dries – guitar
Robert Ficker – bass, double bass, vocals (with a special focus on Spanish folk repertoire)
Oscar Brocades Zaalberg – drums
 

Los Albertos begin their gigs instantly running, leading the audience with fast paced dance sounds and taking them to a break-neck and frenzied climax leaving you dazed, exhausted and happy.

The power of an orchestra, the sweetness of a melody. Musica Muta: two guitars, the beating heart of a performance that blends original compositions with fresh takes on classic rock, pop, and Italian and international songs.
Michele Rosati and Rachele Fogu merge in an intense musical symbiosis—through notes, harmonies, and percussive rhythms, chord by chord, beat by beat. Sometimes words aren't needed—just the courage to listen to the voice of music.

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An energetic live show that blends roots reggae, dub, and pop influences into an engaging flow. Between driving rhythms, saxophone, percussion, and multilingual vocals, the performance moves between high-impact moments and more intimate atmospheres, conveying messages of freedom, connection, and awareness.

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Ponzio Pilates is a musical project born in 2015 with a strong focus on live music, both performed and/or improvised, blending a variety of influences—from world music to fast afro-beat, from Japanese city pop to acoustic techno. After ten formative years of live performances, including appearances at festivals such as Glastonbury and Sziget, during which the band developed its own distinctive sound, the project has now taken on a new form as a trio.

Recommended age: +16.

How can we rise to the climate challenge as theatre & music creators? One Ocean is the latest production of Small Island Big Song, an ambitious global collaboration confronting the most pressing issue of our age. Uniting their traditions of trance and ritual, five islander artists lead the audience on an epic musical dramaturgy, traversing beauty, loss, anger and hope, intimate personal testimonies & massed voices, all created in communities over ten years across sixteen island nations.

Tankus bring a visceral, theatrical rock’n’roll to the stage, driven by live-wire energy, a countercultural attitude, and a powerful performative spirit. With echoes of Tom Waits and rougher, more contemporary sounds, their concerts are overwhelming experiences, drawing the audience into an intense and liberating show.

A blend of styles, an exchange of ideas, a mixing of genres. It is the tight rhythms of rap meeting guitar, bass, and drums. It is pads and synthesizers joining tonic notes, fills, and capos. It is surprise, vision, collective delirium.

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Tolstoys are a Berlin-based psychedelic rock band drawing on Slavic and Celtic folklore. Shaped by years of touring across the UK, Germany, and Eastern Europe, their live shows are built on deep connection, within the band and with the audience, creating an intense, freeing atmosphere charged with raw energy. With three studio albums and a sound that blends ritual, psychedelia, and live intensity, Tolstoys offer a powerful and immersive concert experience.

National premiere.

Venolta is a fall festival born three years ago from the collaboration of Ultimo Punto and Chiocciola la casa del nomade with the aim of reclaiming the ancient rural dance style. To succeed in our intent, we will integrate into the programming of Artisti in Piazza a small foray of Venolta's content and make it available to the festival audience, with educational workshops and the involvement of local musicians, elderly players, the festival audience, accompanied by  "Viva el Ball!".

A shaman, a singer, a dancer, horn players and percussionists invite us to join this pagan celebration, infused with rock’n’roll roots, the Occitan language and organic sounds. These eleven intriguing characters, with their unusual musical instruments made from calabashes, bring the world of carnival straight from the earth onto the stage. A ceremony, a tribute to celebration and to ancestral pagan-shamanic, carnivalesque rites.

National premiere.

The contemporary voice of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) the world’s most remote inhabited island, Yoyo Tuki brings a timely uplifting musical journey, embodying the wisdom and strength of the his ancient lineage with a contemporary musical perspective.