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Events, festivals, and venues: Italian popular music: canzone, Sanremo, cantautori, Italo disco

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Casinò di Sanremo

The Casinò di Sanremo, also known as the Sanremo Casino, is a historic casino and theater in Sanremo, Italy, inaugurated in 1905 as Italy's first licensed gaming house.

Concerto del Primo Maggio

The Concerto del Primo Maggio, also called Concertone, is a free annual May Day concert in Rome, held since 1990 and promoted by the trade unions CGIL, CISL, and UIL with RAI.

Festival di Napoli

The Festival di Napoli, formally the Festival della Canzone Napoletana, is a Neapolitan-dialect song competition founded in Naples in 1952, one year after Sanremo, and revived since 2015.

Heineken Jammin' Festival

The Heineken Jammin' Festival was a major Italian rock festival held from 1998 to 2012, opening at Imola with Vasco Rossi and drawing up to 175,000 spectators.

I-Days Milano

I-Days Milano, also known as I-Days, is a summer concert series of single-date headline shows in Milan, Italy, founded in 1999 as Independent Days Festival.

Magazzini Generali

Magazzini Generali is a Milan concert venue and nightclub opened in 1995 in a converted early-1900s railway warehouse on Via Pietrasanta, with a capacity of 1,000 people.

Notte della Taranta

La Notte della Taranta is a pizzica and taranta festival held each late August in the Salento peninsula of Apulia, Italy, first staged in 1998.

Piedigrotta

Piedigrotta is Naples' historic September festival, a fusion of devotion to the Madonna di Piedigrotta and a song festival that launched the classics of Neapolitan song.

Space Electronic (Florence)

Space Electronic, also known as Space Club, is a discotheque in Florence opened in 1969 by the radical-architecture group Gruppo 9999, hosting rock acts and experimental theater through the 1970s.