Sherwood Festival is one of the longest and most famous events in Italy: for 30 days every summer a car park is transformed in a living and free space, like a city in a city. During the last edition more than 150.000 people came to the festival. Its peculiarity and its strong point is the great variety of music and cultural events. It is a space where music, culture, sport, sociality and debates mix up and link together for the creation of something really special: Sherwood Festival.
This event is a living and free space where music, culture, sport, information and debates are a tool for closing the gap between different points of views and for showing, despite the many contradictions of our present, a new way of life, of being together, of looking at the world.
Since the first edition in 1990, a lot of artists known at national and international level played during the festival: Manu Chao, The Prodigy, Alice in Chains, NO FX, Die Antwoord, Public Enemy, Sepultura, Fatboy Slim, The Flaming Lips, Pat Metheny, Mogwai, Cypress Hill, Ska-P. Gogol Bordello, Dope DOD, The International Noise Conspiracy, Sinéad O’Connor, Blonde Redhead, Chumbawamba, Calexico, Nouvelle Vague, Dresden Dolls, Arab Strap, Jeff Mills, Paul Kalkbrenner, Ellen Allien, Apparat, Roni Size, The Bloody Beetroots, Maffia Sound System, Dub FX, Gramatik, Dropkick Murphys, Suicidal Tendencies, Agnostic Front, Anthrax, Zebrahead, Lacuna Coil, Goran Bregovic, Emir Kusturica, Shantel, Dubioza Kolektiv, Ana Tijoux, Keny Arkana, Hechos Contra El Decoro, The Skatalites, The Wailers, Alpha Blondy, Inner Circle, Alborosie, Zion Train, Koffee, New York Ska Jazz Ensemble, Bad Brains, CSI – Consorzio Suonatori Indipendenti, Verdena, Afterhours, Marlene Kuntz, Negrita, Mau, 99 Posse, Skiantos, Subsonica, Caparezza, Vinicio Capossela, Carmen Consoli, Prozac+, Africa Unite, Baustelle, Daniele Silvestri, Nicolò Fabi, Tiromancino, Almamegretta, Üstmamò, Stefano Bollani and many others.
In 2019 was launched the campaign “Sherwood Changes For Climate Justice”. It represented the beginning of a new pathway for a continuous reduction of the environmental impact of the Festival itself. Thanks to this campaign the 50% of the environmental impact has been reduced, compared to the previous editions. The winning of such a challenge has been possible also thanks to the help of the many people who came to the Festival (click here for more info).
