Ospitaletto (Brescia), Ruggeri in concert on 25 July

Ospitaletto (Brescia), Ruggeri in concert on 25 July.

Enrico Ruggeri is on tour throughout Italy with “The revolution – the tour”, concerts that follow the publication of the new album “The revolution" (Anyway Music).

 Winner of the Tenco Prize in 2021, in over 40 years of career Enrico Ruggeri he wrote pieces of Italian music history, for himself, for Decibel and for other great artists. He has his roots in punk, balanced between rock and synth pop without ever giving up melody. Alongside his songwriting he carries out the activity of writer (his latest novel is best sellers “Child's Play” for The Ship of Theseus), TV host e radio.

It is the President of the National Singers, an association founded in 1981, from an idea by Mogol to support charitable causes and to create an opportunity for singers and others to come together. An association, currently led by General Director Gian Luca Pecchini, which supports the value of sport and music, to convey messages of peace and solidarity not only in Italy but in the world.

Ruggeri is accompanied on tour by the band composed by Paolo Zanetti (guitars), Francesco Luppi (keyboards), Fortu Sacka (bass), Alex Polifrone (drums).

These are the next dates: 

July 23rd in Piazza Dante a IMPERIA

July 25th in Piazza Roma a OSPITALETTO, Brescia (with Zanetti and Luppi)

August 4th at Puglia Village in MOLFETTA, Bari

August 17th in Central Square a DESTINATION OF CIVITELLA ROVETO, L'Aquila

August 19st SANGINETO, Cosenza

August 20st MINTURNO, Latina

August 21st in Piazza XX Settembre a CIVITANOVA MARCHE, Macerata

August 28th in Coumboscuro a MONTEROSSO GRANA, Cuneo (with Zanetti and Luppi)

September 23rd in Piccola Piazza a VALMADRERA, Lecco (with Zanetti and Luppi)

Tickets are available on the Ticketone circuit and in the usual sales points www.ticketone.it.

The tour is produced by Joe & Joe.

Radio subasio is the Official Radio of the tour.

 "The revolution" (Anyway Music), available in physical and digital, it is a record that talks about human relationships, adolescent dreams and a generation that has clashed with life, represented by the iconic cover shot, a photo of Enrico Ruggeri's class at Berchet High School, school year '73/'74 . Eleven songs which they outline an autobiographical concept album, with stories and suggestions enhanced by Enrico's unmistakable vocal timbre and the attention to sound during the recording phase.

The singer-songwriter worked for two years on all the songs on the album, With the collaboration of Andrea Miro in "Gladiator" and of Massimo Bigi in "The revolution","Don't shoot the singer","Piece of me"and "Glam bang".

The album contains two featuring: with Francesco Bianconi in “What will become of us”, a friendship born two years ago in Musicultura, and with Silvio Capeccia, together with whom 50 years ago (1972) he founded Champagne Molotov, before Decibel, in "Glam bang".

It is on display at the Berengo Art Space Foundation in Murano until November 27th the first contemporary work of art by Enrico Ruggeri, for the seventh edition of GLASSTRESS on the occasion of the 59th BIENNATHE DI VENEZIA, together with those of great international artists such as Jimmie Durham and Thomas Schütte. The work is entitled “WATERWAR” and is dedicated to the emptiness of wars, designed by Enrico Ruggeri starting from 2015 and built well before the current tragic events. Two archetypal armies, recreated in Murano glass, clash to gain possession of a glass of water that dominates a mountain of sand.

 As part of the Nazionale Cantanti it was inaugurated on Monday 20 June, thanks to the initiative of the Pontificia Gravissimum Edticationis Foundation, established by Pope Francis in 2015 - which operates in the educational field to support the integral formation of the person and fraternal coexistence on earth - in the presence of Monsignor Angelo Vincenzo Zani, the President of ATAC Giovanni Mottura, by Gian Luca Pecchini Director of the Nazionale Cantanti and by Enrico Garnero President of Play2Give, the special train “Maison de Paix”, specially set up to support the fundraising campaign for the purchase of one school bus for the children of the village of Kikwit, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. “I would just like to go to school” is a project shared and supported by Nazionale Cantanti and Play2Give, created by ATAC in collaboration with the Ponticia Gravissimum Educationis Foundation and the non-profit organization SFERA