Porretta Soul Festival 35th edition

20 July 2023 - 23 July 2023

Music and dance

ApenninesPromenade raccomended< 70 Km from Bologna

Since 1988 the Porretta Soul Festival, Tribute To Otis Redding has become the most prestigious European event entirely dedicated to soul and rhythm & blues music, with a particular reference to the music of Memphis, the Memphis Sound, the musical school of the great Otis Redding, to which the festival is dedicated.

Bobby Rush (2 Grammy winning legend, Blues Hall of Famer, six-time Grammy nominee), The Bo-Keys, John Németh (multiple Blues Music Award winner), The Blues Paddlers (Samuel & Davis), Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra feat. Terrie Odabi, Lehmanns Brothers, Charlie Wood, Katrina Anderson, The Norman Sisters, Curtis Salgado, Robin McKelle, Mighty Mo Rodgers with Sax Gordon, a Commitments tribute with Eamonn Flynn & Conor Brady from the original soundtrack of the film The Commitments, and many more, will take the stage in Porretta.

The evocative atmosphere of Porretta Terme will be the setting for the event together with the Street Food Village, street food with an inevitable focus on the most typical products of the Bolognese Apennines in the city centre. All in the context of free concerts by rhythm & blues bands starting at 11 am on the Rufus Thomas Cafe Stage in the central Piazza della Libertà.

Map

Porretta Soul Festival 35th edition

Parco Rufus Thomas 42
40046 Alto Reno Terme

Distance from Bologna < 70 km

How to get there

Telephone: +39 3356364192
Email: info@porrettasoulfestival.it
Site/minisite/other: https://www.porrettasoulfestival.it/music-festival/

Entrance

Day Pass	€35
4 Days Pass	€90

Buy tickets online or at BW Ticket in Piazza Maggiore, 1/e Bologna

Insights

Free admission concerts

July 20 Thursday

h 5pm RBF Band (Renazzo)

h 6pm No Name Band (Modena)

July 21 Friday

h 11am Members of The Commitments (Ireland)

h 12pm Jam Folk-Soul (Vergato-Riola)

h 5pm Blaus (Bologna)

h 6pm Jimmy Henry Browning Band (Modena)

22 July Saturday

h 11am Steely Fusion (Parma)

h 12pm Over Soul (Perugia) MARCHING BAND

h 4,30pm Blues Track Band (Forte dei Marmi)

h 5,30pm The Pushovers (Forlì)

h 6,30pm Good Ole Boys (Versilia)

July 23 Sunday

h 11am Soul Shot (France)

h 12pm Over Soul (Perugia) MARCHING BAND

h 4,30pm Golden Soul Band (Mestrino, Padova)

h 5,30pm Urban Soul Band (Perugia)

h 6,30pm THE SOUL and the Ultimate Funkadelic Orchestra

Timetables

Shows at 8pm. Check the programme online

Contacts

Porretta Soul Festival 35th edition
Parco Rufus Thomas 42
40046 Alto Reno Terme
Distance from Bologna < 70 km
+39 3356364192
info@porrettasoulfestival.it
https://www.porrettasoulfestival.it/music-festival/