Cremonini dreams: “Imola is my Everest” – Magazine

Imola (Bologna), 1 July 2022 – Cesare Cremonini takes a break. He swallows: “This will be the tip of Everest of my career.” In front of him, at the Enzo e Dino Ferrari racetrack in Imola, a red-hot concrete esplanade. Three hundred meters of sweat and glory, hydrocarbons and music: tomorrow evening the Bolognese singer-songwriter closes here a summer tour that has filled the stadiums, in an event for over 70 thousand people of which Qn – il Resto del Carlino is the media partner. Cremonini, what is the significance of his presence at the Imola racetrack? “Imola and the racetrack will gather thousands of people from all over Italy, but here I play at home: it is my region, there is my Bologna, an even more exciting context, a perfect setting”. Before her, Vasco Rossi and Pearl Jam played in Imola in a few weeks. And in the past Miles Davis, Metallica, Rem. And the list is long. “For me it is a great responsibility. It is the first big meeting that concerns me, at the end of a tour in the stadiums: I am aware of where I am, I have it totally. This is why it is very important to respect this place, both by mine and from the public. But here I feel at ease, I have a great dream, the one I have dreamed since the beginning of my career. It will be like climbing to the top of a mountain “. Lucio Dalla will be central here too: the fans at the Olimpico in Rome and at the San Siro in Milan have already been moved by the virtual duet you wanted. It is no coincidence that this year marks the ten years since his death and that Bologna is a stone’s throw away. “It is not a tribute. It is a live duet. It is a miracle that lights up for one night, takes place in the most exciting and rare way”. What does he do? “Bringing Lucio” with us “was …