MILAN – A beautiful festival, full of opportunities to have fun and learn, being in contact with the great international music artists, the great writers and the most esteemed journalists. And where In Barolo, at the Collisioni Festival, which will be inaugurated tonight by the great Eddie Vedder, until July 16 .
So: music, culture and entertainment. To frame the festival, as always, the town of Barolo, a mecca of Italian wine, immersed in the magnificent landscape of the Piedmontese Langhe, a UNESCO heritage site, a natural stage to host music, meetings, dialogues with Nobel prizes for literature in its squares, stars of Italian and international music, leading actors of the contemporary cinema scene but also performances by street artists, tastings of the most excellent wines and agricultural products on the national scene and three different non-stop stages dedicated to emerging music. Eddie Vedder at Collisioni
This year is the 11th edition of Collisioni which is inaugurated by the great Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder, whose concert has already sold out. Collisions and how to take the tip of a ballpoint pen and slip it into the wheel of a cassette, to rewind it manually to the beginning, and decide how to hang up the music.
After all, Collisioni has always been this: a compilation of different artistic genres, a cultural mix tape, different audiences that come together to contemplate the complexity of the world from the perspective of a small hill town. Many are stunned, because it is not a literary festival, nor a music festival, nor a food and wine fair. Rather, it’s a place to hear, on the same stage, a sacred monster of world literature and then a rapper or producer talking about wine and cheese, people who think differently and live different lives. In this apparent chaos, just like in the cassettes you made yourself as a boy going from heavy metal, to rap to classical music, the crazy and incoherent sense of the world is returned by the compilation,Many names not to be missed
In addition to Eddie Vedder , the highlight will be on the weekend from 4 to 7 July, with the concerts of Liam Gallagher on 4 July, Carl Brave and Max Gazze with Rkom i and Daniele Silvestri on 5 July, Maneskin and Salmo on July 6, Thirty Seconds To Mars on July 7 to conclude with the three concerts of Macklemore on July 10, Calcutta on July 13 and Thom Yorke on July 16.
Among the many names expected for the weekend of literature and music in the hills, Saturday 6 and 7 July: the classic of contemporary American literature John Irving , author of cult novels such as The World According to Garp and the Rules of the Cider House; the great Italian actor Stefano Accorsi fresh from the success of Il Campione nominated for four Silver Ribbons and which we are awaiting airing on Sky in 1994, the last chapter of the Trilogy dedicated to tangentopoli and the advent of the second republic; Il Volo , for the first time at Collisioni in the year of their artistic decade and their world tour; Luca Argentero who will return to tell the audience of the festival together with his association 1 Caffe Onlus; the great comic actor Giorgio Panariello, a veteran of the show’s success with the Trio, who will present the new novel Oggi Tu at Collisioni; Mauro Corona on stage with Omar Pedrini to present his new novel Nel Muro in which he investigates his troubled relationship with women; Gino Strada , founder of Emergency, protagonist of the Peace Love and Music meeting with the participation of musicians and comedians friends of Smemoranda, in addition to the directors Nico Colonna and Gino & Michele; the great Chuck Palahniuk , legendary author of Fight Club and Choking; Loredana Berte , who presented the beautiful Cosa ti Aspetti from me in Sanremo; the TV presenter Massimo Gilettiwho will present his latest book Le Dannate at Collisioni; the art critic Vittorio Sgarbi who will present his latest work Il Novecento; and then Selvaggia Lucarelli , with her book Falso in Libra, where the ironic balance of a life in war against weight is made, a battle that unites 90% of women and men; the journalist Beppe Severgnin i for an interesting reading entitled Journalists are made, Italians are born; the writer Roberto Saviano , winner of the Berlinale of the Silver Bear for best screenplay with the film based on his novel La paranza dei bambini, will talk about integration and hospitality starting from his new book There are no taxis in the sea; rapper Frankie hi nrg mcwho at Collisioni will present Faccio la Mia Cosa, a journey through the history of rap in which the author was the undisputed protagonist; Ambra Angiolini , actress and presenter who is always multifaceted, versatile and innovative; singer Paola Turci, fresh from the success of her latest album Viva da Morire; Marco Travaglio , director of the Fatto Quotidiano which presents Perche No Tav; and again, Jonathan Coe, a world-famous writer and intellectual who returns to Collisioni with his latest book The Middle England; 2019 revelation singer-songwriter rapper Carl Brave; the writer from Trieste Claudio Magris who will give a lesson entitled How a Book is Born at Collisioni; Diodatowho returns to Collisioni, coinciding with his new artistic chapter which will culminate with the publication of the new album due out in the fall; the journalist Enrico Mentana , director of TG LA7
