36th Ferrara Buskers Festival
Street Musician International Festival
August 22-27 2023
Shows begin at 21:00 (downtown) and
23:30 (Parco Massari)

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 2022, more than 300 different attractions (for a total of more of 2,000 hours) were performed here by over 1,100 artists from 50 nations before an audience of 800,000. 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 36th edition the organizing committee invited twentysix groups/artists from all around the world. In total about one hundred shows will be performed by more than 1,000 artists from 56 different nations.

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.

The Festival

• Ferrara Buskers Festival Committee (For any information about the festival: open all year)

  Via Romei 3
  44100 Ferrara - Italy
  Tel: +39 0532 249 337
  Fax: +39 0532 207 048

• Festival Secretariat: (Open 10:00/24:00 during the festival)

  Estense Castle
  Tel: +39 0532 20 10 20

• Schedule: The shows will begin at 21:00 every week day. Sunday only one show from 17:00 to 20:00. They are free.
• Tourist Information: Tel: +39 0532 20 93 70 / +39 0532 29 93 03
  Fax: +39 0532 21 22 66
• Guided Tours: Please call +39 0532 21 08 44 (Fax: +39 0532 20 67 37)
• Hostel: Corso Biagio Rossetti 24 Tel: +39 0532 201 158
• Camping: Via Gramicia 80, Tel: +39 0532 75 23 96
• Bike Rental: Centro Storico Car Parking (+39 0532 20 20 03)
  Railway Station (+39 0532 77 21 90)

How to reach the Festival

• From the Railway Station:
  Take bus n.1 or n.9 connecting to the Center. On foot in about 10-15 minutes. You can walk through Viale Costituzione, Viale Cavour heading to the Caste.
• By Car (see map):
  HighWay A13, exit Ferrara Sud. There are two big car parks in Via Darsena: Centro Storico car park (P1) and ex MOF car park (P2). From the latter, take the pedestrian exit (Rampari San Paolo) to reach the double-deck bus stop. Another car park is available on the other side of the town, the Palazzo dei Diamanti car park (P3). From any car park it is possible to get to downtown in about 15 minutes on foot.
• By Bike:
  The better way to visit Ferrara is by bike. It is possible to rent bikes from the Centro Storico car park and just outside the railway station.

Participation to the Festival

Artists Present at the Past Editions

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