Rugby Sound Festival
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| Rugby Sound Festival | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Rock, folk, pop, hip hop, indie, rap, electronic dance music |
| Dates | Consecutive 10 days between late June and early July (currently) |
| Location(s) | Visconti Castle (Legnano, Italy) |
| Coordinates | 45°35′05″N 8°55′35″E / 45.5848°N 8.9265°E |
| Years active | 2000-2019, 2022-present |
| Founders | Pietro Dallù |
| Capacity | 8,000 |
| Organised by | Parabiago Rugby 1948 and Shining Production |
| Website | https://www.rugbysound.it |
The Rugby Sound Festival is an annual music and cultural festival held in the city of Legnano, in the province of Milan, Italy. During the years, the festival has evolved into a celebration of diverse musical genres [1][2].
The essence of the Rugby Sound Festival lies in its commitment to inclusivity and artistic excellence. The festival's lineup spans a spectrum of genres, including rock, folk, pop, hip hop, indie, rap and electronic dance music[3]. This diversity mirrors the organizers' dedication to providing a platform for both local talents and internationally acclaimed artists. The festival is now managed by Shining Production, which combines musical excellences with street food offerings, creating a unique experience attendees[4].
History
The Rugby Sound Festival was founded in the early 1980s; It was created as the Parabiago Rugby team's end of year party. It start to be a real festival, accessible to everyone, in 2000; and now has become one of the most important festivals in northern Italy. From 2012 to 2013 the festival start to became famous, and gain attendance because of a collaboration between Parabiago Rugby and Shining Production. Subsequently from 2016, the festival started to look like as it is today: that is because the newly appointed organizers began collaborating with external professionals from diverse fields: communication, sponsor, advertise and other activities such as the street food. Initially, from 2000 to 2007 the festival was held at the Rugby Sounds Port "Libero Ferrario". Subsequently, from 2008 to 2016, the whole event was transferred to the sport court "Vengoni - Marazzini" (the sport center of the Parabiago Rugby team). In the end, since 2017 untill today, the festival has taken place in the island beyond the Visconti Castle (Legnano).[4] The Rugby Sound Festival held in 2023, has been the best performance in the festival's history, the so called "record" edition. The event garnered an attendance of 70,000 individuals and achieved 6 sold out within a span of 12 days; This substantiates the significance of the Festival, affirming its current standing as one of the most renowned festival in Italy.[5]
Chi non avanza, retrocede.
-Rugby Sound founder Pietro Dallù's quote when he started the Rugby Sound project
Parabiago Rugby
The Parabiago Rugby team was created in the 1948, and still exists today. The first president was Nino Cataldi, and in two years the team get promote to the first division (Serie A). Among the members of the Parabiago Rugby team, 200 of them, both men and women, decided to join a group named "Squadra dei 200"; this team upholds the genuine values of sport, emphasizes the importance of teamwork, and promotes solidarity, continues to actively contribute to the Festival, by participating in security .[4]
Location
In 2000, the 'Rugby Sound Festival' was first held at the Libero Ferrario Stadium: a football stadium located in the city of Parabiago, in the province of Milan, that was opened in 1933 in honor of cyclist Libero Ferrario. The stadium mainly hosts Parabiago's home games and has a capacity of 700 seats. The specific location of the event, which took place there between 2000 and 2007, is Viale Guglielmo Marconi, 39, 20015 Parabiago, MI.
From 2008 to 2016, the event was held in the Parabiago Rugby team's sports center, "Vengoni - Marazzini" sports court. [6] The stadium's exact address is Via Carso, 2,20015 Parabiago MI.
Since 2017, it has been held at the Visconti Castle in Legnano[7]. The castle is situated in the Lombardy region of northern Italy, southern Legnano is home to the medieval Visconti Castle, which is part of the Metropolitan City of Milan. It is situated on a little island that the Olona River created. It has also been referred to as the San Giorgio castle from the thirteenth century.[8] The exact address at which the 'Rugby Sound Festival' will be held in P.za della Concordia, 1, 20025 Legnano MI.
Organization
Since 2016 the organization behind the Rugby Sound Festival is up to Shining Production, with the contribution of Comune di Legnano and Parabiago Rugby, whose athletes and parents are the first ones to volunteer for the festival. The preparation of the event is followed by a considerable amount of people, who in turn are divided into groups with different tasks. The work teams are followed by a coordinator who divides the amount of work, the work shifts and maintains order in the team.[9]
The festival offers a wide variety of music genres, suitable for different types of audience, and organizers need to contact the different artists for the performances. Interactions begin in October and continue through November, with a concentration on international artists and groups until December. Italian artists are called immediately after the Sanremo Music Festival, which puts a hold on activities until February. The final names of the various artists are agreed between February and April.[1] Due to high turnout of people of the last editions, the planners of the event devised the VIP experience and enhanced checkout procedures in order to shorten wait times.[10]
Being a public event, the planning of Rugby Sound Festival concerns security as well. The work of the Polizia di Stato, Municipal Police, Carabinieri, Guardia di Finanza, Protezione Civile, Italian Red Cross and Agenzia di Sicurezza, along with the aid of a surveillance system and emergency preparations, is what keeps everything in order and secure. Deputy Commissioner Ilenia Romano has been in charge of security management for the 2023 edition.[11]
The festival's rules, which are updated annually, focus on discouraging inappropriate behavior, including that which involves alcohol, pollution, and violence. It is forbidden for the nearby businesses to serve takeout beverages with an alcohol content higher than 21%, from 18 in the evening to 2 in the morning, for the duration of the festival. Beverages that are exempt from this requirment may only be sold in paper or plastic containers.[12]
Street food parade
The Street food parade is an occurrence organized by "Associazione Culturale Le Officine", a cultural organization that operates mainly in the provinces of Varese and Milan[13]. This event consists in numerous food trucks coming from all over Italy, that allow the visitors to try different street foods, with particular regard to the italian traditional street foods. This event was set up in Legnano for the first time during the October of 2016, and more then 30000 people visited the parade. Because of this unexpected number of people visited the event, many food trucks ran out of food[14].
After this success, Shining Production and the Associazione Culturale Le Officine, decided to co-operate and realize "an event inside the event"[15] for the 2019 edition of the festival: a portion of the island was assinged to the Street food parade for the whole duration of the festival. This allowed the visitors of the festival to try the different street foods while attending the events of the festival[16]. This initiative was appreciated, so in the following editions, after the two years pause because of Covid-19, Shining Production decided to organize this event again for the successive editions of the festival[17].
Editions
Below are some of the most recent and notable editions of the Rugby Sound Festival:
The 2016 edition
The 2017 edition
With the 2017 edition, the festival was moved for the first time to the island of Visconti Castle in Legnano where the ten evenings, started on June 30 and ended on July 9, were attended by more than 40,000 participants in total.[18] The spectators were also able to experience recreational and sport activities organized in the nearby Sport Village. Among the proposed sports there was rugby, yoga tai-chi, crossfit, football, wall climbing and basketball, but also the opportunity to visit the castle and walk in the park.[19]
The following was the schedule in details:[20]
- 30th of June: Elio e Le Storie tese; Price 15€
- 1st of July: Planet Funk; Price 5€
- 2nd of July: Paddy's la festa irlandese; Free entry
- 3rd of July: I Legnanesi - Viaggiando con noi; Free entry
- 4th of July: Boomdabash; Free entry
- 5th of July: Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti; Free entry
- 6th of July: The Darkness; Price 15€
- 7th of July: J-Ax & Fedez; Price 30€
- 8th of July: Litfiba; Price 20€
- 9th of July: Holi - The Festival of Colors; Free entry
The 2018 edition
The 2018 edition is the 19th edition of the festival, started on the 29th of June and has concluded on the 8th of July.
- 29th of June: Ziggy Marley; Special Price: 10€
- 30th of June: Fabri Fibra, Gemitaiz; Price: 23€
- 1st of July: Max Pezzali, Nek, Francesco Renga; Price: 34,50€
- 2nd of July: Saor Patrol; Free entry
- 3rd of July: Lacuna Coil, Rezophonic; Free entry
- 4th of July: Alborosie, Mellow Mood; Special Price: 11,65€
- 5th of July: Sfera Ebbasta; Price: 28,75€
- 6th of July: The Hives, I Ministri; Special Price 17,25€
- 7th of July: Deejay Time; Free entry
- 8th of July: Negrita; Special Price 23€
The 2019 edition
The 2022 edition
The 2022 edition started on the 30th of June and ended on the 10th of July. This was the first edition after the forced two-years stop because of the Covid-19 pandemic. For this reason, Shining Production, but solely for this edition, decided to exclusively invite Italian artists, whose presence is usually less recognized compared to their international counterparts[21]. Nevertheless, more than 55,000 people attended the castle island over the course of the 11 evenings.[22]
- The festival began with a metal night, opened by the concert of "Moonlight Haze," a symphonic metal group[23], followed by "Lacuna Coil," a heavy metal band specializing in gothic metal and alternative metal[24]. The price for the tickets was 1€
- During the second evening, four Ragge groups played on the stage, the "Sud Sound System," specializing in reggamuffin and in dancehall[25], were the first with "Bag A Riddim Band": these two groups made some songs together and they also collaborated for the realization of numerous concerts in the past[26]. The group "Train to Roots" and "Vito War" appeared later on stage, rispectively a raggae group and a raggae DJ[27]. The price for the tickets was 1€
- The third day featured an event called "Deejay Time". This evening is organized by the Italian radio station "Radio Deejay", aiming to replicate the namesake radio show by playing the most famous songs from the 90s and dance music[28]. The price for the tickets was 12€.
The 2023 edition
The edition of 2023, started on the 29th of June and has concluded on the 10th of July. Not only were there concerts, also performances, and DJ sets at the end of the night with free entry, all of these held in the setting of the Legnano Castle island. It holds the attendance record with 70,000 individuals.[5] The event achieved a total of 6 sold out shows, underscoring the current fame of the Festival; Notably 2 of them reached full capacity three weeks before the start. How was the festival structured:
- The first day (29th of June) began with the performance of the Planet Funk, an Italian electronic band; the night continued with a second exhibition made by an another band, that perform the same type of music genre: the Motel Connection. The price of the ticket was 1€.
- The second evening (30th of June) the Festival hosted the show of a pop and punk band: Finley; followed by a music party called Teenage Dream. This date, is one of the two, that reached the sold out three weeks before the start of the Festival.
- On the third day (1st of July), the lineup featured the dance pop band Eiffel 65, followed by a dance themed music party named Zarro Night. The price for this date was 17€.
- On the fourth day (2nd of July) performed the singer Cristina D'Avena along with the band Gem boy, for a cost of 15€.
- The night after (3rd of July) start with the performance of a young trapper known as Rondodasosa, and then followed by other 4 trappers:Neima Ezza, Medy, Neza, and Artie5five; for a total of 25€ for all the five performances.
- The sixth evening (4th of July) begans with the Articolo 31, which is an hiphop band composed by J-Ax, who is the singer, and DJ Jad, who takes care of the production; The second guest is Wlady, a DJ, who plays dance, pop, and hiphop music; The price for this two performances was 46€.
- On the seventh (6th of July) date there was only one guest, Sfera Ebbasta: the trapper with the highest number of streams (on Spotify) in Italy for a price of 46€.
- The eighth evening (7th of July) there were two rappers performing on stage, the initial performer was Salmo, and the second one was Nitro. The combined cost for the two singers amounted to 40€.
- On the ninth day (8th of July), the only show was made by the pop band Boomdabash, the ticket price was 17,25€
- The penultimate day (9th of July), the Festival hosted the performances of two rappers from Naples. Luchè took the stage first, followed by Geolier, for a total price of 46€.
- On the final night (10th of July), the comedian Andrea Pucci took the stage, this date is the second of the two, that reached full capacity three weeks before the start of the festival.
Tickets prices apply to individuals aged 10 and above, while entry is free for children under 10 years of age, the only exception is for the show of Andrea Pucci, that is free for kids under the age of 6. [29]
Festival summary by year
| Edition | Year | Dates | Location[30] | Headliners and prices | Street Food | Annual attendance |
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| 1st | 2000 | Rugby soundsport “Libero Ferrario” | ||||
| 2nd | 2001 | |||||
| 3rd | 2002 | |||||
| 4th | 2003 | |||||
| 5th | 2004 | |||||
| 6th | 2005 | |||||
| 7th | 2006 | |||||
| 8th | 2007 | |||||
| 9th | 2008 | sport court “Venegoni – Marazzini “ - Rugby Parabiago | ||||
| 10th | 2009 | |||||
| 11th | 2010 | |||||
| 12th | 2011 | |||||
| 13th | 2012 | June 26th - July 1st |
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| 14th[31] | 2013 | June 23rd -June 30th |
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| 15th[32] | 2014 | July 11th - July 20th |
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| 16th[33] | 2015 | June 26th - July 5th |
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| 17th[34] | 2016 | June 24th - July 3rd |
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| 18th[35] | 2017 | June 30th - July 9th | Island of Visconti Castle (Legnano) |
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40.000 | |
| 19th[36] | 2018 | June 29th - July 8th |
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45.000 | ||
| 20th[37] | 2019 | June 28th - July 7th |
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50.000 | |
| - | 2020 | cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic | ||||
| - | 2021 | |||||
| 21st[39] | 2022 | June 30th - July 10th | Island of Visconti Castle (Legnano) |
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55.000 |
| 22nd[40] | 2023 | June 29th - July 10th |
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70.000 | ||
See also
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