John Nemeth will perform w/Bo-Keys @PSF 2023
John Németh & The Bo-Keys. Tickets on sale from January 2023 at www.vivaticket.it John Németh is an American electric blues and soul harmonicist, singer, and songwriter. He has received two Blues Music Awards for Soul Blues Male Artist in 2014 and Soul Blues Album in 2015. He has recorded ten albums since 2002, having also […]
The Bo-Keys will be Porretta Soul Festival 2023 house band
During their two decade history, Memphis Soul group, The Bo-Keys, have featured some of Memphis’ best musicians – both legendary studio vets and younger, in-demand sidemen. The Bo-Keys have kept the spirit of classic Memphis music alive while writing a vital new chapter for the sound and style. “Where many revivalists pale compared to the […]
Black Organ Music
Saturday 24 September 2022, at 9.00 pm, in Porretta Terme, in the Church of the Immaculate Conception (former Capuchin Friars), the last appointment of the two reviews “Porretta Soul Festival”, directed by Graziano Uliani, and “Voices and Organi dell’Appennino “directed by Wladimir Matsic and Francesco Zagnoni. Black Organ Music is the result of the collaboration […]
Porretta Soul Festival 33th Edition
Otis Redding has become the most prestigious European event dedicated entirely to soul and rhythm & blues music, with a particular reference to the music of Memphis, the Memphis Sound, the musical school of the great Otis Redding, to whom the festival is dedicated. It will be a special edition, in winter style, and will […]
PSF 2021: special edition
The programming will take place in four phases: 1. From 21 to 27 June Street Art Week.A new series of 9 murals will tell the story of soul music and the Porretta Soul Festival. The public will have the opportunity to attend the works. Musical moments on June 26th and 27th with rhythm & blues […]
A summer in Porretta by Andrea Piazza
The first time you go to Porretta Terme, you choose. Then, after a while, it is this town with its charm, its mountain sobriety, its music … that attracts you like the siren song.
Wee Willy Walker’s latest single
We are really excited to see everyone in the new video by Wee Willie Walker & The Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra for the single “Over and Over” !!
We are working on Sweet ART Graffiti
From 21 to 27 June 2021 a new series of murals will tell the story of soul music and the Porretta Soul Festival. The public will have the opportunity to follow the proceedings.
Going home: Joe Arnold tells Porretta
On Monday 20 July 2015, the morning sun began its ascent over the lush green hills surrounding the small Italian village of Porretta Terme.
Stax Records biographer Rob Bowman about the festival
I remember my first visit to the Porretta Soul Festival as if it were yesterday. It was 1998 and that particular festival headlined Solomon Burke, the Bar-Kays and the incomparable Swamp Dogg. Porretta seemed like a magical place.
