The Red Valley Festival, an electronic dance, pop, rap and urban music event that takes place annually on August in Sardinia over four days, hosts famous artists, among the most popular of the moment, on a huge technologically advanced stage, succeeding to make this event more and more central to the panorama of summer entertainment in Italy.
In the so-called post-Covid era it is held in Olbia, where it takes place again this year, from 12 to 15 August 2023. From 2015, the year of the first edition, to 2019 it was held in Arbatax, while in 2020 and in 2021 has been postponed. The best artists of the moment of the national and international music scene are proposed, who perform, on the Volcano Stage, within a large concert area.
You can buy a pass for a single evening of the RVF or get a Full Pass subscription for all four scheduled shows, which you can watch standing in the parterre. The line-up is made up of both first and second tier artists, who collectively perform for ten hours a day. The location is easily reachable on foot from the center and the port.
To get to the city on the north-eastern Sardinian coast, the Livorno – Olbia ferries can be very convenient for those coming from northern Italy, both with a vehicle or as a pedestrian, like the Civitavecchia – Olbia ferries for those coming from the south and center of the Italian peninsula.
Red Valley Festival: pop, rap and dance music at the Olbia Arena
The four-day electronic dance music (EDM), pop, rap and urban festival that characterizes August 15th in Italy hosts internationally renowned singers, bands and DJs every year. From 2022 the Red Valley takes place at the Olbia Arena, an area of 13,000 square meters in the port city of North-East Sardinia, located in via Libia street, not far from the center and the port, reachable by car in a few minutes or about half an now on foot; in the latter case you have to reach the Rotonda Ticino and from here the former Circus Area via a pedestrian passage under the State Road 125.
The name of the event derives from the original place where it took place, the Rocce Rosse square in Arbatax, characterized by red porphyry cliffs of volcanic origin, where in the last century there was an extraction quarry. The name Red Valley was kept even after the change of location.
Organized by Magma Events in collaboration with Vivo Concerti, the show offers important productions and respectable line-ups. The imposing stage is the Volcano Stage (on the cover; image by Laura.Sau.95, CC BY-SA 4.0), 48 meters wide, 18 meters high, with more than 300 square meters of ledwall (screen formed by a matrix of LED modules) and more than 250 lights and effects. There are also refreshment points in the arena.
Over the years artists such as Martin Garrix, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Blanco, Steve Aoki, Salmo, Sean Paul, Pinguini Tattici Nucleari, Irama, Marracash, Fabri Fibra, Max Pezzali, Sebastian Ingrosso, Will Sparks have performed on this stage and many others.
Program of the 2023 edition
Red Valley 2023 sees the participation of Lazza e Guè (rap music), Pinguini Tattici Nucleari (pop), Black Eyed Peas (urban), Sfera Ebbasta (rap), Paul Kalkbrenner (electronics) and others, who are currently to be announced (T.B.A.).
In each of the four evenings you will be able to enjoy 10 hours of live music between 19:00 and 5:00. The concerts of the headliners will have a longer duration than those of the support artists and always take place between 21:00 and 03:00. The official times with the precise order of performances are always communicated close to the festival (by 10 August). Let’s see below how the program was outlined:
August 12 (Day 1): Lazza; Guè, T.B.A.
August 13 (Day 2): Pinguini Tattici Nucleari; T.B.A.
August 14 (Day 3): Black Eyed Peas; Sfera Ebbasta, T.B.A.
August 15 (Day 4): Paul Kalkbrenner, T.B.A.
The institutional partners of the event are the municipality of Olbia, the Sardegna Turismo portal, the local Tourist Information Office, the Grimaldi Lines shipping company, Radio 105, the official RVF broadcaster and TicketSms.it, where it is possible to purchase tickets, obtainable also on redvalleyfestival.com, the official website.
The documentary film
In the docufilm “Red Valley: We are what we listen to“, directed by Olmo Parenti, the exciting moments experienced in the parterre of the 2022 edition of the Festival are retraced, when almost 40 artists took the stage with more than 70,000 spectators; in the documentary film the artists Blanco, Fabri Fibra, Il Tre, Irama, Marracash, Mr Rain, Pinguini Tattici Nucleari, Salmo are also interviewed.
