On Sunday 24 shows will be held in Comacchio; (21:30-24:00) |
All the photos in this page are from the 1995 edition of the Festival and are © by Luciano Orlandini (click on them for an enlarged version).
From the official broshure:
"220,000 square meters of a wonderful medieval and Renaissance stage" available for dozen of street musicians coming from any part of the world. This is the Ferrara Buskers Festival.And so everybody by bike or on foot is ready to follow, in the wide spaces surrounding the Este Castle or close to the Cathedral, the involving rhythms of the African drums, the cheerful atmosphere of a dixie band or the crazy gags of some English bands; or advancing forward the medieval narrow streets you can be guided by the sound of a Celtic harp, or sit on the pavement to appreciate the emotionful notes of an Argentine tango or, as the little mice of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, to follow the distant echo of a flute.
Any kind of music at the Ferrara Buskers Festival has freedom of a city, and there are also some "virtuosos" playing very original instruments: saws, washboards, cowbells, teachests, crystal glasses made the public discover unexpected melodious potentialities.
In 2024, more than 250 artists from 19 nations performed more than 60 attractions each day. This was a fantastic result: Ferrara during the week of the festival is transformed into a music town, a city to play, which at any corner unveals new atmospheres, between the old and new tunes, to the discovery of familiar or unknown sonorities.
For this 38th edition the organizing committee credited groups/artists from all around the world.
The busker's music becomes in this way the soundtrack of an ideal journey through the thousand world cultures and the occasion to many people to discover a beautiful town that was able in the past centuries to fascinate the travellers with its silence and it can now win over the polychromy of notes, dancers, faces and clothes.