17-06-2012 @ 21:14
Italia Wave will be in Arezzo again, where the festival was established 26 years ago and It takes its original name back…
Arezzo, Tuscany - 12-15 july
Four days rich of events at the football stadium in Arezzo and in the most beautiful places of the historic core of this charming medieval town of Tuscany. Arezzo Wave Love Festival will take place in Arezzo again, the town where it was established in 1987, 12 to 15 July, with a great bill, almost all for free. New proposals from Europe and the best Italian musicians, from the newest artists to the well-known ones.
There will be Crookers and Yann Tiersen, Magnifico and Vadoinmessico, Fuel Fandango and Batida, Caparezza and Bandabardò, Malika Ayane and Nina Zilli, DeWolff, Caravan Palace, Erol Alkan and many others.
Over 100 events during the 26th Arezzo Wave. After five years spent in other Italian towns (Florence, Livorno, Lecce), the festival is coming back to the town where it was born with a shower of music, but not only: theatre, literature, comics, dance, art, digital art and an area designed for children.
The slogan of Arezzo Wave Love Festival 2012 is “New agreements against the crisis”. All the city will be involved: Main Stage at the football stadium - from 7.30 p.m., day ticket 12 euro - where we can see Mala Vita, Fuel Fandango, Il Teatro degli Orrori and Caparezza (Thursday 12), Ewert and The Two Dragons, Erica Mou, Malika Ayane, Nina Zilli and DeWolff (Friday 13), Mc2, Magnifico, Batida, Yann Tiersen and Crookers (Saturday 14), Vadoinmessico, Radiodervish, Caravan Palace and Bandabardò (Sunday 15).
The single day ticket is 12 euro, and the 4 days ticket for the Main Stage is 30 euro only. The festival offers a special ticket “against the crisis” too! An agreement with its audience: 4 days tickets 20 euro, but you have to arrive at the stadium before 8 p.m.!
Morning and afternoon music is the protagonist in the central Colle del Pionta with free admission Wake up stage (in the morning) and Psycho stage (in the afternoon). The best of the Italian independent music and the best artists “discovered” by Arezzo Wave during an year of selections in every Italian region thanks to the long and meticulous work of the Arezzo Wave Network which every year launches new bands who will find the walk of fame. Every day in the afternoon in the different areas of the town centre there will be many meetings with great celebrities, cinema, comics with an exhibition dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Italian comics Diabolik, a bill of holy songs with Tibetan monks and Sufi Songs, a running in the morning through the streets of the town centre. And other shows and theatre and dance improvisation in the city centre; a special kids area (6 - 11 years) and a contemporary installation art in the Main stage area.
On friday and saturday night a special space for digital music with Elettrowave: at the console dj UK Erol Alkan and Riva Starr (Friday 13), the jewels of the label Get Physical, for the 10th anniversary of the Berlin label (Sat. 14) and the German Munk, Digi G’Alessio and many others. Single day entrance to the club Sugar Reef Musicology hosting Elettrowave: 15 euro, and a special ticket against the crisis allows the fastest people to purchase a two days ticket for 20 euro (otherwise the regular two days ticket for Elettrowave is 25 euro).
And for all the people who will take advantage of the festival to specialize and live a dance theatre, percussion, afrossà dance, contact improvisation dance, cinema, photography… Arezzo Wave proposes many workshops!
The most important stages of Arezzo Wave 2012 will be live broadcasted on the webtv of the festival at www.arezzowave.com realized thanks to the partnership with the portal Intoscana.it and the technical services of the partner Clouditalia. It is part of these services a real “technological welcome” for the audience of Arezzo Wave too who can surf for free in the show areas with wi-fi.