he Ferrara Buskers Festival is a non competitive parade of the best street musicians in the world. In term of tradition and dimension it is the most important festival of this kind. In 2001 about 800,000 people, coming from anywhere in Italy and from foreign countries, croweded the beautiful medieval and Renaissance stage in the historical centre of the town.
Every year the organisation invites 20 groups, but beside them many other join the festival. Only last edition 177 different shows were performed by a total of 660 artists coming from 21 different countries. The 2002 edition will be enriched by the presence of a spanish gruop specialized in "sardanas", music and dance that belong to Catolonia Reniassance. "Sardanas" were very appreciated by Borgia family that was original of Catalonia. The presence of the spanish group is an homage to catalan music tradition which will be included in the Festival magic. During the week of the Festival, Ferrara is trasformed into a music town, a city to play, able to offer new atmosphere between old and new sonorities.You can be guided by the sound of a celtic arp or to sit down on the pavement to appreciate the emotionful notes of a dixieland, rock, blues band… . Any kind of music ate the Ferrara Buskers Festival has the right of citizenship, and there are also some "virtuosos" playing the most original instruments like saws, washboards, cowbells, teachest, cristal glasses that have made the audience discover unexpected melodious potentialities.. The buskers' music becomes in this way the soundtrack of an ideal journey through the thousand world wide cultures and the occasion to many people to discover a beutiful town that is able to fascinate the travellers with the polychromy of notes, faces and costumes.

Ferrara Buskers Festival
Via De' Romei 3
44100 Ferrara
Tel. 0039 0532 249 337
www.ferrarabuskers.com
info@ferrarabuskers.com