As with any port, Porto di Mare-Eskimo is synonymous with exchange, correspondence, and coming and going. This year the club has an important novelty: courses of typical Italian dance Tarantella, which will be taking place on Friday night. Porto di Mare’s focus on live music and cultural exchange is one that the man who started …
Stepping into Data Records 93 on Via de’ Neri feels a little like being transported to another age, with its pink-and-purple psychedelic interior and thousands of CDs and vinyl records lining the walls. Today the shop remains a haven for music lovers and collectors of rare records alike. Its collection of valuable and eclectic records …
Breaking barriers between different styles of music is DJ’s Leo Martera formula for his Saturday night at Rex bar. The idea came when Martera noticed that one-musical-theme nights were beginning to bore people after a while. Thus came the intuition to mix not just songs, but also styles of music. And it worked, making Saturday …
As with any port, Porto di Mare-Eskimo is synonymous with exchange, correspondence, and coming and going. This year the club has an important novelty: courses of the typical Italian dance, the tarantella, will take place on Friday nights. Porto di Mare’s focus on live music and cultural exchange is one that the man who started …
The Dave Matthews Band will be performing at the Mandela Forum of Florence on Oct. 18. The concert will start at 8 p.m., with tickets costing from 46 to 69 euros. Tickets can be purchased at www.ticketone.it. The concert continues the band’s experiment from their tour last year, with shows consisting of two concerts in …
By Mackenzie Broderick Just in time for a new batch of study-abroad students, Space is hosting Caramello, the “sweet university night” — as the organizers define it — of every Wednesday for Italian, European and American students. Caramello presents themed nights and, often, also fashion shows. Entry before 12:30 a.m. is only one euro. The …
The fourth edition of the Florence International Choir Festival is presenting in July three free concerts, one in the Salone dei Cinquecento, one in Sant’Apollonia auditorium in Via San Gallo, and one in the Santa Croce Church. Organised by the Ensemble San Felice, an internationally renowned vocal and instrumental group that has been performing all …
The 61st edition of the Puccini Festival is taking place in Torre del Lago, a small town near Viareggio in the province of Lucca, at the Great Open Air Theater. The Festival will present four operas by Puccini including Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Turandot, and Trittico. Torre del Lago has a particular meaning to Puccini’s history. …
The Pistoia Blues festival is back for the 36th edition from July 1 to 24. Established in 1980 as the first Italian music festival dedicated to blues music, this year the festival honors blues legend BB King, who died last May and was one of the big stars to appear most frequently on the stage …
The 18th annual Lucca Summer Festival is back starting July 1 and lasting throughout the entire month. The festival, which takes places inside the city walls of Lucca at the Piazza Napoleone, consists of 13 concerts by musicians of different genres. This edition is rich of important names. Bob Dylan will be starting off the …