Are you waiting for Sanremo 2022? Sanremo 2022 is just around the corner: the 72nd edition of this amazing music festival is starting on the 1st February and taking place for 5 days, until the 5th February. Since it’s the most important music event in Italy, Italians are always excited about it! If you are […]
Did you enjoy Eurovision 2021? Eurovision 2021 took place in Rotterdam on 22nd May and was a terrific show as usual! The Eurovision Song Contest is an international music festival born in Lugano in 1956 to entertain and connect all the European countries. After last year cancellation due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this year it […]
Ready for Sanremo 2021? The Festival di Sanremo 2021 is starting on the 2nd March for five amazing evenings of entertainment. As you might know, it’s the most important Italian music festival since 1951. If you want to read more about it, follow this link. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this year the event will […]
Have you ever been to Verona Opera Festival? For all the opera lovers, Verona Opera Festival is a real landmark in Italy. It takes places in the most amazing location on Earth: the Arena in Verona. This beautiful Roman amphitheatre hosts this magic festival every year in summer. The first concert in the Arena took […]
The best pop music contest and awards in Italy is definitely the Festival di Sanremo. Do you know it at all? It has quite a long history: since 1951 every year the most famous Italian singers and songwriters compete in this festival which nowadays lasts 5 days and keeps millions people stuck in front of […]
If you play an instrument or are familiar with music, you are likely to have heard of terms like tempo, crescendo, adagio or sonata. One thing these words have in common, apart from the fact that they belong to the semantic field of music, is their Italian origin. Have you ever wondered why Italian had such a powerful influence on […]
If you are passionate about festivals, in Italy the choice is wide particularly in summer, and sometimes can be hard to decide where to go. So read through this post and pick one or, why not? Travel around and see them all! There are a lot of fabolous summer festivals dedicated to music, food or culture, […]
Learning italian with music is fun! And what about music written by ladies? How many Italian female singers do you know? You are surely thinking about Laura Pausini, Raffaella Carrà or Mina… These are the popular ones! There are a lot of Italian Indie Female Singers who maybe you don’t know but deserve to be listened to. […]
On April 6th, at the Aldgate Tower, in the City of London, Happy Languages hosted the concert of Peppe Voltarelli, a famous Italian songwriter from Calabria. It has been an exciting evening where music, interviews and stories found their right place and time. The lovely atmosphere of the Aldgate Tower where the language school Happy Languages has its […]
Peppe Voltarelli is an incredible Italian musician, a talented artist known for his music, his scenic capacities and his social engagement. Thanks to his music he is the symbol of the Italian immigration abroad: his style is folk-rock, and you can find a lot of references to the most famous Italian singer-songwriters in his music, […]
