After the successes reported at the Sanremo Festival, Eurovision and Spotify charts, the Roman rock band went up to the Capitol this morning to receive from the hands of the mayor Virginia Raggi the most important homage of the city, the Capitoline wolf, an award which before them went, among others, to the great Gigi Proietti and the musician Ezio Bosso. The award was the occasion for an announcement: “On 9 July next year we will be in concert at the Circus Maximus”.
The four artists, Damiano, Victoria, Ethan and Thomas, accompanied by their family and friends, arrived at Palazzo Senatorio from via San Pietro in Carcere. They met the mayor of Rome with whom they entertained for about an hour. At the end, the members of the band looked out from the balcony of the mayor’s studio overlooking the Imperial Forums. Then destination Julius Caesar hall where the ceremony for the delivery of the Capitoline Wolf took place. Sitting among the benches, the young musicians listened to the greeting of the president of the Capitoline assembly, Marcello De Vito, “with their music they left Rome – he said – to bring their extraordinary creativity to the world and were appreciated by a huge audience of all ages “. They have become a symbol of an artistic revolution, they threw a stone into the pond of music, courageously proposing music different from that of their peers “. Virginia Raggi welcomed the four boys” with enthusiasm “and gave them” with pride and with honor the Capitoline wolf “.” You started from the ranks and climbed the world rankings – he said – you are setting a great example. Your grit brought a disruptive eruption of novelty that came at a time when we needed it most. Rock triumphed with you in Sanremo. “The mayor praised Maneskin’s” powerful music and surprising style “and stressed that our country had not won the Eurovision Song Festival for 31 years.” Thanks to Maneskin Italy will be able to host this important international event again. Let me tell you – he concluded – from football to music Europe speaks Italian, and perhaps a little Roman “.
The international tour
The triumph of these months of the Maneskin will turn into an exceptional tour that will see them on the stages of the most important European festivals during the summer of 2021 and that of 2022, alongside the great names of world music. The first dates (the calendar is being updated) will be held at the Lokerse Festival in Lokeren (Belgium, Thursday 5 August 2021), at Rock For People in Prague (Czech Republic, Friday 13 August 2021), at the Ronquie’res Festival in Braine- Le-Comte (Belgium, Saturday 14 August 2021), at the Open’er Park in Gdynia (Poland, Thursday 19 August 2021), at the Paaspop Festival in Schijndel (Netherlands, Saturday 4 September 2021) and at the Novarock Pilot Festival in Vienna (Austria, Saturday 11 September 2021). Some European stages of 2022 have already been announced, with the Rock Am Ring in Nurburgring and the Rock Im Park in Zeppelinfeld (in Germany, respectively Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 June 2022) and the Tons of Rock in Haiden (in Norway, Friday 24 June 2022)