PREVIEW

COMACCHIO

On Sunday 18 August you can enjoy the preview of the Festival in the suggestive location of Comacchio.

Musicians buskers and Italian artists for a preview among the canals and typical lagoon streets.

From 7.30pm until midnight
Free entry

MIXTO

Genre: Folk

Country: Italy

MIXTO were born thirteen years ago in a small dining room in the province of Padua and, between a tzatziki and a moussaka, the intrepid musketeers confided their emotions to the rhythm of sirtaki. Since that day, the music that inhabits them has shaped a specific genre, a mixture of fortuitous encounters in dreams around the world. Using music as a trait d'union, the Mixto group retraces the peculiarities of various regions of the world (Greece, Portugal, Turkey, Argentina, Italy etc.), aiming their performance at a necessary awareness and knowledge of these places.
PARGONZ

Genre: Pop

Country: Italy

From acoustic duo to band composed of voice, guitar, cajon, trumpet and French horn, with a repertoire that varies from international pop to Italian singer-songwriter. They were born in 2021 and chose to combine their initials in the name of the band. Very young musicians, eclectic and ready for the challenge of busking.
UKUS IN FABULA

Genre: Pop

Country: Italy

Ukus in Fabula is the Italian reality of the international ukulele: concerts all over the world, participation in international festivals and television shows. They range from reggae to rock, from country to punk, passing through songwriting and chart hits, sometimes mixing everything in brilliant mashups. An always engaging repertoire seasoned with musical and fun cabaret! Three expert musicians, who divide their time between bass ukulele, tenor ukulele, soprano ukulele, kazoo, footdrum and voice. An explosive mixture of sounds, colors and different personalities.
FLOAT MUSIC

Genre: Folk

Country: Italy

Vibrant musical project born before the pandemic. They range from electronic atmospheres to the heart of acoustic music. From their first steps, the duo dedicated themselves to the creation of original songs, in which jazz harmonies intertwine with lyrics and melodies that embrace the charm of folk and pop. Their inspiration finds roots in the essentiality of acoustic instruments, becoming the common thread of their stylistic research.
MOI•GEA

Genre: Jazz

Country: Italy

MOI•GEA was born as a recreational-sports activity in the spring of 2022, and involves four players interacting using one of only two types of equipment: the saxophone or the drums. Son of free improvisation practices, the MOI•GEA quartet matures its own language with each performance, enhancing the combination of two drums/two saxophones and generating music that nods to jazz and ethnic, varying in various styles.
TRÍ

Genre: Folk

Country: Italy

Trí are three musicians linked to the Irish musical tradition and with a long road behind them. He opens the dance with the subdued beat of the bodhrán, while violin and tin whistle chase each other to find the fullness of the guitar. It's a dive into tradition, to rediscover melodies that make you tap your foot to the rhythm and unfold amidst the subdued clang of beer mugs. Busking is in their skin.
FATHER&SON STREET DUO

Genre: Rock

Country: Italy

A father and son united by a passion for the classics of Rock music, surpassing generations. Niccolò's participation in the Ferrara Buskers Festival 2022 - only 10 years old at the time - represented an incredible training school for him, an exciting and unique experience. A video of their performance has had over 1,100,000 views.
WORABBI E LE DOVUTE PRECAUZIONI

Genre: Folk

Country: Italy

Worabbi and due precautions is an artistic project founded by Marco Vorabbi. An eccentric singer-songwriter, with a sharp look and a few hairs on his tongue, who grew up among bars and construction sites. In his songs he tells with unmistakable style and marked irony bizarre provincial stories and small daily dramas. Already a busker for years!
MAVI & FLY JAZZ BAND

Genre: Bluegrass

Country: Italy

Fly Jazz have been playing together and making progress for around 30 years, in fact they have been regular guests at the Ferrara Buskers Festival. They present an original sound for an unprecedented mix that characterizes the four instruments, very rare in the history of jazz. The choice to play "on the road" is one of the formative moments of the group since the situation of a musician on the street, unlike the situation in "concert", forces a revision and simplification of the songs to make them more captivating and understandable to everyone.
LA VOCE DEL GUERRIERO

Genre: Songwriter

Country: Italy

Singer-songwriter born in 1984, instigator of internal revolutions and furious guardian of the joy of living. He plays guitar, bass drum, shaker but it is with his voice that he expresses everything he feels. He loves to challenge the audience to request their favorite song to reinterpret each piece. True busker for how he dialogues and involves every spectator.
FEDERICO

Genre: Ethnic music

Country: Italy

From a very young age - and he still is very young - he became passionate about the hang, an ethnic instrument originating from Oceania. He participates in the Ferrara Buskers Festival, refining the technique of this particular instrument year after year. For the first time in Comacchio he will show you his great skills in busking.
ANTONIO CORTESI

Genre: Classical music

Country: Italy

Classical - but also electric - cellist and composer, Antonio is passionate about social media and the digital world so much so that he has created a community of music enthusiasts and uses his channels to share his personal approach. He has performed with numerous orchestras and chamber groups without ever taking away space from contamination with the world of theater and dance as well as original music projects and busking. He is part of the electric trio EST with which he performed as a guest at the Ferrara Buskers.
COSTANZA BORSARI

Genre: Celtic music

Country: Italy

Melusina is a fairy from French folklore but also the name of her harp. Melusina is a snake woman, a mermaid on land, a female creature with a dark side, with a strongly generative and destructive power. Arpa di Melusina is a project dedicated to popular music, especially from countries of Celtic tradition, aimed at the discovery and rediscovery of melodies and stories from the past dedicated to the feminine, but not only, through messages, archetypes, dreams and symbols hidden among the notes of ancient melodies. Already a busker at the Festival he presents himself as a soloist for the first time.
ANG!

Genre: Percussions

Country: Italy

Angela, aka "ANG!", is a guitarist from Valsesia. She started playing guitar at 14 and about 10 years ago she accidentally discovered percussive fingerstyle on YouTube. She was so enchanted by it that she began self-taught to experiment and create her own personal arrangements of some pieces by the most famous fingerstyle guitarists, until she dedicated herself entirely to this style. Her repertoire is, therefore, exclusively instrumental and entirely performed with a single guitar, also used as percussion. Angela regularly plays as a busker.
DOPPIO GIOCO

Genre: Esoteric

Country: Italy

"Looking at your eyes I read your heart" and "Listening to your hand I talk about you" This is who TPR Doppio Gioco are, an artistic couple who have been listening and reading the souls of the spectators of the Ferrara Buskers Festival for years. Single use show.
WANDA

Genre: Juggling

Country: Italy

The company was founded in 1991 and works for the social promotion of art and street games, obtaining many awards over the years throughout Italy. The shows are for the people, for the town or city square, for school children, for the parks, for the streets and for all those who love to listen and be transported by juggling and theatre.
NICOLÒ NARDELLI

Genre: Juggling

Country: Italy

Young artist who knows how to make the street his favorite stage. He loves to range between the arts and manages to do it well thanks to the continuous combination of juggling, mime, physical theatre, dance, optical illusions, magic. Among the most requested performances are the contact and the superb, magical fire show.