The festival of music and culture in the Piacenza and Parma Apennines, including museums, parish churches, monasteries and castles, celebrates its 25th edition this year with artists of international importance and young performers.

Apennine Festival

from 2 August to 22 September 2026 in the Piacenza and Parma Apennines

A festival consisting of about twenty musical events that intertwine popular traditions and cultured music, enhancing the territory of the province of Piacenza and Parma.

Program

Enchantments of the Apennines

2 August, 5.45 pm
Coli, Sella dei Generali
pass Traditional choirs Val Curiasca, Coro di Mareto, Coro Eco di Valle, Franco Guglielmetti on the accordion and Carlo Gandolfi on the Emilian piva.

New leaves from ancient roots of Cadore

4 August, 9.15 pm
Piazza del Popolo, Caminata, Alta Val Tidone
Ensemble Na Fuoia
Andrea da Cortà on mandola, accordion and bagpipes, Pina Sabatini on voice and guitar, Annachiara Belli on violin.

Orients

5 August, 9.15 pm
Church of Sant’Agata, Rivergaro
Trio Cafè Loti, Nando Citarella on vocals, frame drums and battente guitar, Pejman Tadayon on oud, setar, saz, daf and Stefano Saletti on bozouki, voice and percussion.

Souvenirs de Paris

6 August, 9.15 pm
Church of San Martino Vescovo, Mareto, Farini
Gloria Sapio narrator, Andrea Cadauro on guitar with the participation of Nicola Rulli on mandolin and mandola.

Sunset in Val Perino

7 August, 7 pm
Church of St. Christopher the Martyr, Pillori di Travo
Christoph Hartmann and the students of the Konstknekt Academy, from Norway.

Sounds of the Nure Valley

8 August, 5.45 pm
Ancient church of S. Andrea, Castelletto, Vernasca
Paolo Simonazzi on hurdy-gurdy and accordion with D’esperanto Trio.

Wayfarers, saints and knights along the Via degli Abati

9 August, 5.45 pm
Church of San Cristoforo, San Pietro in Val Vona, Borgo Val di Taro (PR)
Concert in collaboration with sentieri sonori dal Po all’Appennino, with Matteo Vignati as narrator and Bandella delle Quattro Province.

Poetry and music on the night of San Lorenzo

10 August, 9 pm
Terrace of the church of Pigazzano, Travo
Poetry readings by Matteo Marchesini, with musical interventions by Max Repetti and Enrico Fink Quartet.

Among the streams – women’s songs between Murgia and Salento

12 August, 6 pm
Tra le Corti Cultural Center, Pianadelle, Farini
Maria Moramarco Ensemble.

Witches. Damned stories in art

13 August, 9.15 pm
Anguissola castle, Travo
Presentation of the book by Luca Scarlini with musical interventions by the group le Rose e le Viole with Maria Moramarco.
Event in collaboration with Serate Letterarie Giana Anguissola.

Sing to me, O muse

18 August, 5.45 pm
Zerba
Strawboys, Daniele Bicego on Italian and European bagpipes and Francesco Bettoni on guitar.

Between mountains and valleys

21 August, 6 pm
Church of San Bartolomeo, Ottone
Francesco Zuvadelli on the organ, Maddalena Scagnelli on the violin and voice and Dario Landi on the theorbo, piva and fife.

Crooner Profession

23 August, 9.15 pm
Cloister of the Abbey of San Colombano, Bobbio
Parma Brass Ensemble.

Don’t forget me

28 August, 6.30 pm
Church of San Martino Vescovo, Mareto, Farini
Rebecca Brusamonti soprano and Corrado Pozzoli at the piano. Metamorphosis of love

6 September, 5.30 pm
Oratory of San Martino in Fognano, Bobbio
Maurizio Pellegrini on the narrator, Adolfo la Volpe on classical guitar, and Enerbia.

Piacenza World – the music of Italy and the World in Piacenza

16 September, 8.45 pm
Polytechnic University of Piacenza, Former Slaughterhouse
Area Band del Sud, Namritha Nori, Alvise Seggi, Evaggelos Merkouris and Giada Mancini.

What you can do – A musical journey into seventeenth-century Europe

18 September, 9 pm
Church of Santa Maria Assunta, Valconasso, Pontenure
Bettina Hofmann on viola da gamba and Luisa Baldassari on harpsichord, Giulio Monguidi on harpsichord, Angelica Antonini on vocals and Maddalena Scagnelli on violin.

Soffi – Sounds from Five Continents

19 September, 5 pm
Guatelli Museum of Ozzano Taro, Collecchio (PR)
Mario Crispi on ney, launeddas, diduk, marranzanu and clarinet.

Plots of Ireland

20 September, 6 pm
Medieval Castle, Calendasco
The Willow’s musical group with Stephanie Martin on violin.

A long expected party at the Locanda

22 September, 9.30 pm
I Melograni farmhouse, Caratta di Gossolengo
Remi and Vincent Boniface of Trouveur Valdotèn on violin, accordion, bagpipes and flutes, with European dances.

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