Emilia Romagna Castles

The first event of the 2025 edition, on the weekend of "La Notte Rosa", will be held on Sunday 22 June at 5.00 a.m., on the free beach of Marano zone 133. To open the festival, a unique event of extraordinary charm: Kledi will perform Ravel's "Bolero", with choreography by Michele Merola, accompanied by four dancers from the MM Contemporary Dance Company. Next, the unmistakable voice of Syria, accompanied on guitar by Tony Canto, will stage "A questo punto... la voglia, la pazzia," a musical tribute to the legendary collaboration between Vinicius de Moraes, Toquinho, Sergio Bardotti and Ornella Vanoni. An encounter between Italian and Brazilian music that becomes poetry, a hymn to love, friendship and the beauty of common feeling.

The Albe in controuce programme continues on 6 July with Catanian singer-songwriter and guitarist Mario Venuti, who brings his live show "Tra la carne e il cielo" to Riccione: an intimate guitar and voice concert, enhanced by Gabriel Prado's light and colourful percussion. The appointment by the sea is at 5.15 at 75 Golden Beach.

On 27 July, on the free beach of Marano zone 133, dawn will be greeted at 5.30 a.m. by the extraordinary voice and music of La Niña, alias Carola Moccia, a Neapolitan singer-songwriter and producer, a pioneer in bringing together tradition and music of the present, projecting them into the future. In Riccione she will bring her new live show "Furèsta Tour" accompanied by Alfredo Maddaluno on guitar, mandolin and percussion.

On 3 August at 5.45, the Spiaggia del sole 86-87 will host the extraordinary music of one of the world's best-loved and most appreciated pianists: Cesare Picco. The Italian musician will bring to Riccione "The Köln Concert by Keith Jarrett", a contemporary homage to Keith Jarrett's legendary 1975 concert.

On 10 August, at the Bahia Antigua 20 beach, another extraordinary name on the national and international music scene will be the protagonist of an unmissable dawn: Giorgio Poi "In duo" with Benjamin Ventura (piano and keyboards). The musician returns to the stage two years after his "Gommapiuma" tour and after the successes and international recognition he has garnered in recent years.

The festival closes, on 17 August at 6 o'clock on the public beach in Piazzale San Martino, with one of the most loved and appreciated voices in Italian music: Antonella Ruggiero. The live show she will bring to Riccione will be "Una voce, una fisarmonica" (A voice, an accordion), the artistic work with which the singer intends to recover and enhance the jazz key of her extraordinary repertoire, from the 1970s to today. The musical revisitation proposed, with the accompaniment of Renzo Ruggieri on accordion, will accompany the audience in an enthralling and fascinating dawn.