The second edition of the festival, in 2023, had ended with a series of extraordinary jam sessions by Jack Johnson together with the other artists in the line-up, including Glen Hansard, Kurt Vile and the Violators e Wolfmother. Now the names of the third edition of Comfort Festival® which will be staged Sunday 7 July 2024 at the New Ferrara Dockyard. I tickets will be on sale on the official circuits Ticketone e Ticketmaster from 10am on Friday 9 February.

Comfort Festival focuses on the psychophysical wellbeing of the audience and not on the quest for mass numbers. Larassegna was born in 2021 from a very simple idea of the founder of Barley Arts Claudio Trottato use a beautiful and natural location to allow the audience to enjoy a relaxing day of good music.

"I am very grateful to the city of Ferrara, starting with the Mayor Alan Fabbri and the Councillor for Culture Marco Gulinelli, who strongly wanted our 'boutique' festival project to continue in their wonderful city. I am very happy with the artistic cast that we have chosen after months of work and selection that were not always easy. Finally, I believe that the new location will be very much appreciated by the public and the participating artists. We have kept ticket prices down thanks to the collaboration with the Ferrara School of Music and the Municipality of Ferrara, and we truly believe that what we will experience on Sunday 7 July will be special,' he says. Claudio Trotta.

La New Dockyard by Ferrara, a recently redeveloped area, is a particularly evocative place where land and water meet. It is a truly unique location in the heart of the city of Ferrara (UNESCO heritage site) to attend events, spend the evening in company and, especially at sunset, enjoy the sunset reflected in the water. Ferrara is indeed a city whose history is inextricably linked to water: it was born and shaped between the primary branch of the Po and the Po di Volano, a tributary that still reaches the sea and flows into the Sacca di Goro. The Darsena di San Paolo constitutes a cycle-pedestrian stretch along the Po di Volano and is part of the Quartiere Giardino.

Questa cornice straordinaria ospiterà

il grande ritorno sulle scene dopo 9 anni di stop dei The Gaslight Anthem nell’unica data italiana dell’estate 2024, durante la quale presenteranno il nuovo album History Books (2023). A precedere sul palco la band di Brian Fallon e soci sarà Gary Clark Jr., apprezzato cantante e chitarrista blues titolare di una lunga serie di riconoscimenti – inclusi diversi Grammy Awards – per i suoi lavori, tra i quali l’ultimo JPEG RAW uscito a marzo. Nel tardo pomeriggio saliranno sul palco i Rival Sons, a Californian blues rock band that released two albums within a few months of each other during 2023, Darkfighter e Lightbringer. Preceding them will be a line-up particularly beloved by lovers of the New Jersey sound: Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, legata a doppio filo con Bruce Springsteen e la E Street Band e citata da Jon Bon Jovi come sua grande fonte di ispirazione, nell’only Italian date nel nostro paese. A scaldare l’atmosfera ci penserà l’esplosivo trio Savana Funk, con il loro misto irresistibile di African music, funk, blues, psychedelic rock e jazz. Ad aprire la giornata saranno gli Hardwicke Circus, prodotti dal leggendario Dave Robinson fondatore della Stiff Records, e i Lovesick, con il loro nuovissimo album Remember My Name.

Listen to the playlist dedicated to Comfort Festival®: https://spoti.fi/3SOtwdQ

Comfort Festival® is part of Yourope - The European Festival Association.