A sonic journey that makes research, variety and sonic contamination its essential cardinal points. From 19 to 26 November in Parma and surrounding areas come back Barezzi Festival for its seventeenth edition: eight days of great music with a rich and top-level line up, with a strong international appeal, preceded by two precious previews on 24 October in Reggio Emilia and 11 November in Parma. Four concerts exclusively in Italy: the Barezzi stage is preparing to welcome the iconic ones The Jesus and Mary Chaini Blonde Redhead with the highly anticipated new album, i Lambchop with their insatiable sound research and has already hosted i Calexicoprotagonists of the Reggio Emilia preview in October with the twentieth anniversary of their masterpiece album. And then the fathers of desert rock Giant Sandthe visceral depth of the music and lyrics of Micah P. Hinsonthe acclaimed indie-folk from Okkervil River/Will Sheff and the experiments of Stuart Braithwaite (Mogwai). The piano star is also on the bill Maxence Cyrinthe penetrating voice of Guido Maria Grillo And concerts as part of Barezzi Off Of Bobo Rondelli, Don Antonio, Camilla Sparksss And Shad. Tickets: https://linktr.ee/barezzifestival.
Organized and produced byLuce cultural association in collaboration with the Teatro Regio Foundation of Parma and with the artistic direction of Giovanni SparanoOnce again Barezzi Festival confirms its multifaceted and mixed soul, proving itself capable of always looking further and further afield. This is also why the festival continues to broaden its geographical boundaries, leaving Parma – where everything was born – to reach Fidenza and Busseto, and this year reaching as far as Reggio Emilia. Barezzi is also divided into a series of special projects that accompany the concerts on the main stages. In addition to the intimate live shows at Borgo Santa Brigida Of Barezzi Offthey also come back Barezzi Laba project dedicated to high schools at the Giuseppe Verdi Theater in Busseto to promote the rediscovery of Verdi, and Barezzi Snug, a journey through the flavors of Parma accompanied by music through lunches in some taverns and cafés in the historic center of the city: Alberto/Caffè del Prato, Torrefazione Gallo, Tra l’Uss e l’Asa, Artaj, Tabarro and Officina Alimentare Dedicata ( entry by reservation on the 24th and 25th from 1pm). In the end, Barezzi Meeting pointat the Caffè del Prato, will host a series of free DJ sets from 6pm to 10pm.
THE PROGRAM
After the success of the two previews – on 24 October in Reggio Emilia in collaboration with the Festival Aperto and the Fondazione I Teatri with Calexico and on 11 November in Parma with Daniela Pes, Sadar Bahar and Gigi Testa -, the festival opens Sunday 19 November. From the States they arrive at the Magnani Theater in Fidenza Okkervil River to present Nothing Specialthe latest album: a dazzling and ambitious work, which for the first time also bears the name of Will Sheff, as a true One Man Band. Opening, the folk energy of Claudia Buzzetti.
Monday 20 November we move to the Teatro Regio in Parma for the exclusive Italian live performance of The Jesus and Mary Chain, a seminal band founded by the Reid brothers who pioneered the “shoegazer” movement: dark settings, subtle melodies and dense layers of feedback. Poised between pop and punk, with a peculiar psychedelic streak, the Scottish group was among the main protagonists of the Eighties, updating the lessons of the Velvet Underground and the Stooges and laying the foundations for bands like My Bloody Valentine.
Tuesday 21 November the Regio always welcomes Blonde Redheadiconic rock trio that arrives in Parma for the only Italian date of the tour to present their highly anticipated new album Sit Down for Dinner. A meticulous and engaging album, a testament to the unmistakable, ever-evolving style the band has refined over its three decades of existence, understated yet visceral melodies envelop lyrics that speak to the inevitable struggles of adulthood. Followed by an aftershow at Palazzo Parma with a DJ set by Nich All Us & Hurricane B (entry only by reservation at [email protected])
Wednesday 22 November at 10.30 he returns to the Giuseppe Verdi Theater in Busseto Barezzi Lab, a free project dedicated to high school students in the province of Parma and Piacenza which aims to give new light, atmospheres, sounds and suggestions to Giuseppe Verdi’s songs, reinterpreted according to the multiple languages of contemporaneity by some of the most valid musical projects of the Italian musical panorama. Protagonists on stage Lyl, Cous Cous for Breakfast and Noe Tommasinipresented by Diego Sorba. At 6pm first appointment with Barezzi Meeting point at Caffè del Prato with the DJ set of Marco Pipitone. He arrives at the Carmine Auditorium in the evening Maxence CyrinFrench composer fresh from the release of his new album Springsong and one of the most listened to pianists in the world: his cover of Where Is My Mind by the Pixies boasts more than 150 million plays and is certified triple diamond. Following, in Borgo Santa Brigida for Barezzi Off, the histrionic and powerful songwriting by Bobo Rondelli.
Thursday 23 November at the Auditorium del Carmine it is the turn of the Giant Sand by Howe Gelb with their experimental sound between post punk and the arid atmospheres of the frontier, an emanation of a desert that is as geographical as it is of the soul and mind. Forerunners of trends and sounds, the band has traveled through decades of alternative and marginal rock, rereading the roots and traditions of American music with an unconventional, visionary and rigorously lo-fi approach. On the stage of Borgo Santa Brigida it’s time instead Shadvisionary pen and voice of the duo Pan del Diavolo, with his latest album CULT. The evening opens at 6pm with the DJ set for Barezzi Meeting point Of Aldo Piazza.
Friday 24 November it starts in the taverns in the city center at 1pm Barezzi Snug with musical-gastronomic explorations together with Pagoda, Martino Adriani, Emanuele Nidi, Francesco Pelosi, Rocco Rosignoli and Matteo Ortuso.
Barezzi Meeting point welcomes the console from 6pm Raregemswhile in the evening the Carmine Auditorium will be all for Stuart Braithwaite: leader, singer and guitarist of the band that changed the history of world post rock, the Scottish Mogwai. The multifaceted artist arrives in Parma solo, a dimension that he began to experiment with at the beginning of the 2000s but which does not lose that magmatic minimalism that also characterizes the sound of his band: a bit of ambient guitar noise, a dose of electronics and some healthy songwriting. Following, in Borgo Santa Brigida for Barezzi Off, the overwhelming energy of the dub plate mixes, synthesizers and cuts of voices by Camilla SparksssSwiss Canadian musician and visual artist and member of the post punk band Peter Kernel.
Saturday 25 November he returns at 1pm Barezzi Snug with his artists “in the tavern”, while at Caffè del Prato the DJ set is scheduled from 6pm Roberto Ugolotti. In the evening, the intimate and painful songwriting of comes to the Auditorium del Carmine Micah P. HinsonTexan singer-songwriter with a deep and warm voice who presents his latest album I Lie To You anticipated by the set of Guido Maria Grillo. The evening in Borgo Santa Brigida closes with the mastery of the guitar Don Antoniowhich will retrace his repertoire up to his most recent work, The beautiful season.
Barezzi’s grand finale, Sunday 26 Novemberwill be at the Giuseppe Verdi Theater in Busseto with the only date in our country Lambchop, one of the brightest bands to emerge from the American scene in the nineties. Their latest and seventeenth album The Bible confirms that their inimitable creative flow, which explored country and soul, jazz and electronica in a unique and original way, has not yet stopped.
Barezzi Festivalwhich takes its name from Antonio Barezzi, the enlightened patron of Giuseppe Verdi who understood his genius and supported his studies and the beginning of his career, is organized and produced by Luce cultural association in collaboration with the Teatro Regio Foundation of Parma, with the artistic direction of Giovanni Sparano.
Barezzi Festival is made possible thanks to the contribution of Emilia Romagna Region, Municipality of Parma, Municipality of Busseto And Municipality of Fidenzawith the support of Cariparma Foundation.
Main sponsors: Chiesi Farmaceutici And Conad Central North
Sponsors: Toyota, Corte Parma, Palazzo Parma, Davines, Cantina Albinea Canali, Laumas Elettronica
Partner: Borneo, Borgo Santa Brigida, Alberto Ritrovo, Caffè del Prato
Barezzi Festival over the years has hosted hundreds of international artists including Wim Mertens, Echo and the Bunnymen, Nils Frahm, Brad Mehldau, Joshua Redman, Apparat, Philip Glass, Herbie Hancock, Rufus Wainwright, Gary Lucas, Ulver, Benjamin Clementine, The Notwist, Brian Auger, Fred Wesley, Morton Subotnick, Michael Kiwanuka , Kula Shaker, Anna Calvi and Fountaines DCas well as the best names in Italian music such as Franco Battiato, Paolo Conte, Vinicio Capossela, Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, Stefano Bollani, Brunori Sas, Carmen Consoli, Enrico Rava, Daniele Silvestri, Vasco Brondi, Iosonouncane and many others.
Info:
www.barezzifestival.it
Barezzi Festival 2023
seventeenth edition
Sunday 19 November
8.30 pm – Magnani Theater – Fidenza
Okkervil River / Will Sheff
opening Claudia Buzzetti
Audience: 25 euros + dp
Boxes: 20 euros + dp
Gallery: 15 euros + dp
Monday 20 November
8.30 pm – Teatro Regio – Parma
The Jesus and Mary Chain – Only Italian date
Audience: 47 euros + dp
Central boxes: 44 euros + dp
Side boxes: 42 euros + dp
Gallery: 40 euros + dp
Tuesday 21 November
8.30 pm – Teatro Regio – Parma
Blonde Redhead – Only Italian date
Audience: 35 euros + dp
Central boxes: 32 euros + dp
Side boxes: 30 euros + dp
Gallery: 28 euros + dp
Aftershow – Palazzo Parma
Nich All Us & Hurricane B
Entry by reservation at [email protected]
Wednesday 22 November
10.30 am – Verdi Theater – Busseto
Barezzi Lab – Lyl, Cous Cous for Breakfast, Noe Tommasini
Present Diego Sorba
Free entry
8.30 pm – Auditorium del Carmine – Parma
Maxence Cyrin
First sector: 25 euros + dp
Second sector: 20 euros + dp
10.00 pm – Borgo Santa Brigida – Parma
Bobo Rondelli
Tickets: 10 euros + dp
Thursday 23 November
8.30 pm – Auditorium del Carmine – Parma
Giant Sand
First sector: 25 euros + dp
Second sector: 20 euros + dp
10.30 pm – Borgo Santa Brigida – Parma
Alosi – The Devil’s Pan
Tickets: 10 euros + dp
Friday 24 November
1pm – Barezzi Snug – Osteria del Centro
Pagoda, Martino Adriani, Emanuele Nidi, Francesco Pelosi, Rocco Rosignoli, Matteo Ortuso
Entrance by reservation
8.30 pm – Auditorium del Carmine – Parma
Stuart Braithwaite (Mogwai) Live
First sector: 25 euros + dp
Second sector: 20 euros + dp
10.30 pm – Borgo Santa Brigida – Parma
Camilla Sparksss
Tickets: 10 euros + dp
Saturday 25 November
1pm – Barezzi Snug – Osteria del Centro
Pagoda, Martino Adriani, Emanuele Nidi, Francesco Pelosi, Rocco Rosignoli, Matteo Ortuso
Entrance by reservation
8.30 pm – Auditorium del Carmine – Parma
Micah P. Hinson full band
opening Guido Maria Grillo
First sector: 25 euros + dp
Second sector: 20 euros + dp
10.30 pm – Borgo Santa Brigida – Parma
Don Antonio
Tickets: 10 euros + dp
Sunday 26 November
8.30 pm – Giuseppe Verdi Theater – Busseto
Lambchop – Only Italian date
Audience: 28 euros + dp
Boxes: 25 euros + dp
Gallery: 20 euros + dp
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