Here is the line-up for the 5th edition of Linecheck

7 years ago

Linecheck starts today, the showcase festival that through a dense program of meetings, workshops, live shows and concerts will address the theme of music today and how it will evolve in the future. The focus of this edition will be on the 20s, the years we are about to live because for every century the threshold of the first twenty years marks a turning point in which the previous century fades like a distant memory and those born in the ’00s peep out on the scene. In addition, the key theme will be diversity and inclusion, always dealt with within the musical context, which is also perfectly suited to the choice of Guest Country this year, or Canada, a country that with its 22% of foreign citizens becomes a symbol of multiculturalism par excellence.

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Inserted within the Milano Music Week – of which it is a content partner – Linecheck 2019 will animate the city of Milan for six days, dividing the events between the spaces of BASE Milano, where the musicROOMS has recently been opened with a small amphitheater inside the CAPSULA with sound immersed in 3D, the Magazzini Generali and six rooms in the Navigli area (Zanardi Cafe, Jacaranda Liuteria Artigiana, Ex Fornace, NonostanteMarras, Ostello Bello, Rocket).

Linecheck has in store a lineup of artists and national and international guests such as Seun Kuti, son of the musician and pioneer activist of the afrobeat Fela Kuti, who today has taken his place as a singer in Egypt 80; Giorgio Poi, Italian artist active internationally coming to be called by the Phoenix to open the dates of their world tour and the Canadian Pierre Kwenders who through the collective Moonshine aims to spread the cultural originality of Montreal.

The Linecheck line-up also includes the 80’s sound of Karpov Not Kasparov, the sensual voice of Emmanuelle, the fusion of soul, jazz, funk and rap by Blu Samu, the R’ n’ B by Arlo Parks, the indie-folk by Eugenia Post Meridiem and the prog-post-math rock by The Pier.

Canada will also play its part with Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Doomsquad, Plants and Animals, Ouri, Booty EP, Gan aka respectful child and Tanya Tagaq who will bring the sounds of their country, demonstrating once again that music is the perfect tool to break down barriers and borders.

But there will be not only live shows and concerts but also to entertain the public there are scheduled experiences created ad hoc as the one of WAAM Tours that tells the transformations of Tortona, from working-class neighborhood to creative hub and museum and that of ARTKADEMY focused on street art.