Fête de la Musique (Music Festival)

The Alliance Française of Bologna celebrates the arrival of summer with the traditional Fête de la Musique (Music Festival). Created in France in the 1980s, the Fête de la Musique is a day dedicated to music in all its forms and expressions.

For this year's edition, on Friday, June 19, 2026, from 6:30 pm to 11:00 pm, the Alliance will host several groups and ensembles performing different musical styles at its headquarters.

• 6:30 pm – DUO BETTERA – Classical Music
  Francesca Neri – Cello
  Gabriele Vincenzi – Violin
  Duo Bettera was formed in 2012. After studying at the “E.F. Dall’Abaco” Conservatory in Verona and the “O. Vecchi–A. Tonelli” Conservatory in Modena, the two musicians performed with several orchestras, including the Orchestra dell’Accademia Mozart, Orchestra Senzaspine and the Orchestra of the Collegium Musicum University of Bologna. They perform in chamber ensembles ranging from duo to sextet formations, as well as with the string ensemble “I Solisti di San Valentino”. They currently teach Violin at the IC of Malalbergo and Cello at the Insuono and Chiavi d’Ascolto music schools. Their repertoire ranges from Baroque to Classical and Romantic music, with occasional film scores and more contemporary twentieth-century transcriptions.
• 7:30 pm – Apéro en Musique
• 8:00 pm – ANSATZ – Spoken Word Live Looping
  Brighi – Live Looping
  Diego Paccione – Voice
• 9:00 pm – DAGDAD – Singer-Songwriter Music (Made for Dancing)
  Valeria Abbondanti – Irish flutes, transverse flute
  Dario Lazzari – Irish bodhrán
  Lippo Mariolini – Acoustic guitars
  Francesco “Otta” Ottaviano – Double bass
  DaDgad is a musical group named after a guitar tuning commonly used in Irish music. It was in this musical world that the members first met and began playing together, blending classical training with frequent excursions into jazz, blues, soul and R&B in a new and highly personal project. Their music is equally suited to dancing and listening, telling stories and transporting audiences to real or imagined distant places. All compositions are conceived, written and arranged by Lippo, who grew up listening to the jazz of Cole Porter, Nina Simone and Glenn Miller, as well as the music of Ravel, Gershwin and Claude Bolling. He spends much of his time in the woods, returning with baskets full of new musical ideas. Their music effortlessly accompanies dance evenings, town festivals, Irish sessions, civil and pagan weddings, funerals, celebrations, football World Cups, eclipses, rare dates in the calendars of lost civilizations, solstices, equinoxes and seasonal herb-gathering excursions.