Umbria Jazz is back for an edition of the restart

(ANSA) - PERUGIA, 28 JUN - Umbria Jazz is not yet always, that of gathering and concerts in the square, but for the festival scheduled in Perugia from 9 to 18 July there is the desire to leave again. The result is a billboard - presented at an outdoor press conference, with the ArenaSanta Giuliana in the background - of an absolute level, completely worthy of a "normal" edition of Umbria Jazz, despite having had to deal with the effects of what organizers and institutions hope it will be the "tail" of the pandemic. And to launch the sprint "to the edition that will be even more splendid than 2022" as underlined by the president of the Region Donatella Tesei. Umbria Jazz then rekindles lights and amplifiers with the desire to go back to being the "The soundtrack of normal life ". A" one-off "festival, however, has been defined by the artistic director Carlo Pagnotta, because there will be no free concerts in the square, concerts in the Gallery, and the Clinics del Berklee, for which reference is made to 2022. It was a hard year, 2020, "and for us it was also a year without a Festival, as it only happened in 1977 and in the years 1979-1981" recalled the president Gianluca Laurenzi. "After the winter of humanity - he added - let's go back to doing what we do best, that is excellent music with the same enthusiasm always. Indeed, Maggiore ". A festival which for Tesei" is a sign of rebirth and departure for the region, and which continues to make Umbria known to the world ".not the typical edition of Umbriajazz - he added - but with great possibilities more than in 2020 ". (ANSA).