A good reason to Love Lucca

Is for me the Summer Festival arranged 16 times, first time in 1998, but I discovered it first time in 2002 and could enjoy Paul Simon and not to forget Eros Ramazzotti. It was a blast with the passion of an Italian musician along with passionate Italians singing along.

Summer Festival

 

In the years that passed I have been there many summers in July so I could get to listen to some of the best musicians the world has to offer.

In 2008 my wife and I along with friends could enjoy Leonard Cohan, no one above, no one along his side. This year again we could enjoy his poetic lyrics and the music that follows.

 

2012 we enjoyed Nora Jones, Laura Pausini, Georgia and Tony Bennet, a variance of music and just a few of the wide program the festival with Mimmo D’Aessendro comes up with each year.

 

It will be a challenge to top this year 70 thousand people to the 14 concerts of very high level music. It closed with July 30^th with Pino Daniele and Marcus Miller. Just have a look at their web site to see what was going on this year. Our last concert was the Neil Young with his Crazy Horses and other that Leonard Cohan we also enjoyed Diana Kroll.

We did make sure we could listen into a couple of other concerts too; Mark Knopfler and Earth, Wind & Fire when we dined at Giglio those days.



So what will happen next summer? Already Mimmo make sure I have to book July 7^th. Never heard him live and he have been in Lucca 4 times before and have sold out..Elton John. Two other names will be released shortly so this blog will be updated as soon as I get the information.

 

The people behind the festival have creative idea of how and what they will do next year so it will be interesting to follow.

And not only are they arranging a summer festival, they have also expanded it into an additional Winter Festival with a few concerts in November and December.

Winter festival

 

All this along with a jazz festival end of June at the Piazza Anfiteatro that had success this year, not to forget it was the home town of Puccini, so the variance of music is there if you enjoy music.

 

This is one of the many reasons I Love Lucca and I am sure you will too just bring the gospel to the world and let them come each July, the city is ready for the visitors.