Florence – For the third time, this is already the main rock festival in Italy and one of the most important in Europe. But for the city Florence Rocks 2019 (June 13-16) It is also the first major test to test the functioning of the new transport system: from the T2 leaving the airport to the interchange car parks at Viale Guidoni and Villa Costanza.
These were the main themes of the presentation of the festival, which will take place at the Visarno Arena. and which will be open Tools, Los Angeles-based band that has won three Grammy Awards. On the stage opening night they too will rise Smashing pumpkinsI Dream Theater, Badflower and Skindred. Group Billy Corgan I’ll present the album Shiny and Oh so Bright, Vol.I/LP: No Past. No Future. No sun, and Dream Theater return to Italy to present new album Distance Over Time.
The star of the second evening will be Ed Sheeran for the first of three great Italian concerts, which will continue at the Olympic Stadium in Rome on June 16 and at the San Siro Stadium in Milan on June 19. Snow Patrol earning an impressive amount of critical and public success, Zara Larsson, Swedish singer-songwriter, the new queen of global pop and Matt Simons which reached 500 million streams and sales of one million copies with We Can Do Better.
On Saturday the 15th the sacred stone monster returns. Eddie Vedder . The former Pearl Jam frontman broke the record for the largest crowd at one of his solo concerts at Firenze Rocks two years ago with more than 45,000 tickets sold. On the same day, also an Oscar winner Glen Hansard, lead vocals and guitar for The Frames, who became famous for his acting career (he also starred in the award-winning film Once Upon a Time). Also performing on the same day were English rock bands Nothing But Thieves and The Struts.
The final day will be highlighted by The Cure classics. who will take to the stage of Visarno for one major concert in Italy. The supergroup, formed in Crawley in Sussex, first performed in Italy in 1978. The final concert will open Amount 41, one of the iconic bands in the history of world punk rock, which returns to Italy after the I-Days 2017 show event in front of 90 thousand people. With them too Editors released their sixth studio album, Violence, l‘Last year.
This year the program of exhibitions held as part of the event was prepared by L.five nations italy With The Marriage of Figaro the highest global level in rock events. That in Florence this quality is also accompanied by a significant increase in tourist presence was confirmed last year, when the average number of overnight stays at Florence Rocks increased from 2.8 nights to 3.3, “an added value of tourism policy”, emphasized the President of Florence. Chamber of Commerce Leonardo Bassilichi. For the mayor Dario Nardella this will confirm the reduction in traffic thanks to the new tram line on the days when Pitti Uomo takes place: “It will be an amazing June.”
Photo: Eddie Vedder