THEMosposible, this time, simply call it “concert”. Why The night of certain nights Of Ligabue at the RCF Arena (for everyone: Campovolo) – celebration of 30 years Of Some nights and the album Happy birthday Elvis (1995) – It was not a simple show, but two days of celebration for beyond 100,000 people.
And it was worth with a sultry and hot day – the 43 degrees were touched on the highway – because The music, here, today was only the fil rouge of a series of Events, emotions and surpriseswho also paid homage to i 35 years of career of the artist.
Fans crowded the Ligastreet – The pedestrian road that led to Campovolo from the gates – stands of stands, entertainment, games of all kinds with Las Vegas as a common thread – The Liga Games, with flipper, balilla football, mechanical bull, but also basketball and beach volleyball courts.
Fans on the Ligastreet. (Press Office)
And then, again, the most fans were able to visit too Insidethebox-Happy birthday Elvis 1995-2025a photographic and memorabilia exhibition, passing through catering points, cinema area, camping and an area for fitness. And from the evening of Friday 20 June, when the most important were performed tribute band of Ligabue, it slipped gently until the Saturday concert.
Campovolo, Ligabue 20 years later
Campovolo, for those who know the artist’s path, is not only a place, but it is an institution. The first concert of 2005 established in fact a European record for the number of paying spectators for a concert by a single artistthanks to the 165,264 tickets sold.
“That campovolo is something that has escaped us almost from the hands at the beginning“, Ligabue recalled that” first time “. «Nobody could have imagined that so many people would come. I remember what happened with Screaming against the sky At the end of that concert, I remember the frames of the people who screamed. As the other Campovolo were made, every time there was the feeling that The party did not end with the concert. From here the idea of these two days of celebration started. “
The artist arrives on the stage of Campovolo 2025. (Press Uff)
A special ladder
And here we are, with a 20 -year -old time jump, tonight: this time, over 100 thousand people sang, danced and excited about the notes of a special ladder of Almost thirty songs. In addition to the famous song that gave its name to the event and to great classics, such as Screaming against the sky, small star without heaven, between stage and realitythey also found space Doll and barracuda, the hard have two hearts and the moving Letter to G., Titles less performed in the concerts of the correggio singer -songwriter, but beloved by his audience.
And if Campovolo means a party between old and new friends, tonight it also means family: on stage, together with Luciano and his group – Poggipollini Faith And Max Cottafavi on guitar, Luciano Luisi to keyboards e Davide Pezzin on bass – his firstborn was also on drums, Lenny, For some time a fixed presence next to his dad.
Ligabue, between climatic crisis and war
Among the songs, even a few moments of intimacy Between Ligabue and his audience, in which the singer -songwriter has touched several themes that are close to him.
«They want to tell us that after all in the summer he has always done hot, that he has always rained in the autumn that dealing with the climatic crisis be a luxury (…) what do you want to be only in Italy and only last year 350 cases between flooding, flooding, storms, landslides, what do you want all that people who lost everything and have been left alone».
The stage of the RCF Arena. (press off)
Then there was also talk of war At a touching moment guided by the registration of the item of Roberto Benigni and animated by writings that hope for the end of the world conflicts – “Enough with the massacre in Gaza, in Ukraine, in Sudan and enough to the 56 massacres in progress in the world”. Liga, and also its “people”, repudiate the war.
Luciano Ligabue, the next concerts
He closed these two days of celebration, ideally this long night continues in the future. Ligabue, on September 6, 2025, will be in concert at the Reggia di Caserta. Then, in the exact year from today – Saturday 20 June 2026 – will perform with Some nights in Milanthird stage de The night of certain nightsthis time in San Siro, the first stage that hosted one of his concerts in 1997. Between the two events, from 1 May 2026, Ligabue will also take a tour with Certain nights in Europestarting from Barcelona and ending in Zurich.
The Some nights of Ligabue, those “that you don’t want to stop, never stop”, they don’t end tonight. And luckily.
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