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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.

An adventure in which the soundtrack is not chosen by us, but guided by the birds, who for the occasion have turned into navigators. The set unfolds like a journey through nature: you set off toward one destination and end up somewhere completely different. Each time a bird begins its song, the route suddenly shifts, catapulting us without warning from one landscape to another.

When people wash their hands of things too often, the Ciocobiscotti arrive to make spilt milk taste better: an offshoot and spin-off of Ponzio Pilates, the Ciocobiscotto Mystic Band was born from an energetic fluctuation of the void and may one day return to the void — but not before taking you with them on an intriguing psychedelic improvisation through the folds of space-time.

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.

From Cape Verdean funaná to Brazilian funk, from Antillean zouk to Dominican merengue: a tropical, flavourful set full of groove, made for dancing and celebrating together.

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 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.

A hybrid and pulsating set where tropical dance electronics meet live trombone in an energetic, genre-blurring performance.

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. 

The historic Rimini-based crew Fairy Circles, active since 2010, has left a significant imprint on the area's independent electronic scene, becoming a symbol of cultural resistance and sonic innovation. Bizio and Slime will bring to the stage an overwhelming DJ set that spans breakbeats, acid breaks, electro-funk, miami bass, big beats and nu skool breaks. With fast-paced rhythms and powerful basslines, their set promises a sonic experience charged with energy and intense vibes.

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.

Artisti in Piazza Festival pays tribute to maestro Gildo Montanari, a musician, a friend, and a precious presence who accompanied the Festival for many years with his energy, his passion, and his music. Remembering him will be a number of musicians and friends who shared the stage with him: Pennabilli Social Club, Retro Cuban Marching Band, Lorenzo Valenti (Gildo e Lorenzo duo), Coro Canta che ti Passa, and other surprises.

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.

Kadesh is the artistic project of Cesena-based producer and DJ Michele Bruschi, weaving together world music, techno, bass music, dubstep, and drum’n’bass in dynamic sets rich in cross-genre influences. A sonic journey through different cultures, using music as a space for encounter, energy, and the overcoming of barriers.

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.

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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.

Deep, telluric bass lines from modular systems support a texture of acid, hypnotic sequences. Breakbeat incursions and sampling enrich the continuous flow of bass and kick drum, shaping a live set born of a sonic evolution matured in underground clubs, among the ruins of abandoned buildings, and deep in the forests of Eastern Europe.

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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A sonic journey through psytrance and dark psy, built through eclectic selections and long experience in DJing. Onadroig Selecta's sets weave together energy, rhythmic depth, and hypnotic atmospheres, moving between darker pulsations and more visionary flights, with one single aim: to make the audience feel good.

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 specialising in live music, blending psychedelia, techno, afrobeat, samba, and tribal music within a punk-driven sonic and attitudinal framework. Fresh from celebrating the band’s tenth anniversary last year, these supreme loose cannons return more fired up than ever, with a new album on the way and another already in the making — both to be premiered at the festival.

Recommended age: +16.

Accordion and voice give rise to soundscapes made of improvisation, folk echoes, tension, breath, and visions. Each apparition transforms the place into a small open narrative: at times intimate, at times ancestral, at times almost ritual. More than watching a performance, the audience is invited into a journey of images, memory, and living presence.

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An exotic immersion in sonic currents and rhythmic tides. A selection of seaside grooves, funk waves, and disco backwash, hauled up from among the rocks and hungry seagulls with a taste for afrobeat, tribal percussion, and cosmic vibrations. RAW celebrates the sunniest, most sensual, salt-sprayed side of sound: a rhythmic archive in constant evolution, suspended between sand, vinyl, and sunsets.

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.

Class: Enchanter
Element: Fire/Air
Effect: When played at a party, it can generate a powerful trip-adrenaline aura capable of pulling participants into a parallel dimension where space and time blur.
Equipment: Subterranean basslines, mystical–ufological frequencies.

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 rooted in Slavic and Celtic folklore. Their live shows are a hypnotic, physical & heartwarming experience – pulling audiences into a shared trance of freedom and release.

National premiere.

Venolta will bring you back to the time of the old evening gatherings, bringing local dances, music, songs, and memories into the present. Throughout the afternoon, in different locations, and then at night at "Giardino di Fra", you will rediscover the convivial atmosphere of the traditional veglia through music, ancient dances, dance-games, ballroom dances, and songs, with the participation of local musicians, witnesses from another time, dancers, players, and the festival audience, accompanied by the Compagnia di 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.