Allen & Heath at the Heart of Primo Maggio 2021
Italy – As the largest free music event in Europe, Primo Maggio – Italy’s annual Labour Day celebration – usually attracts over 500,000 music lovers to the streets of Rome for a day and night of live music.
With Covid restrictions still in place, the 2021 event was moved to the Cavea, an open-air amphitheatre in the Auditorium Parco della Musica, to accommodate live broadcast on Italian national TV and radio, plus a small and socially distanced audience of 500 people.
Rome based rental company ABC oversaw the event’s production, and as with previous years they enrolled the assistance of Italian A&H distributor Exhibo, plus dLive rental partners Mod/Rooster, Arcadia Digital and Suono e Luci, to support the event’s demanding audio requirements.
Primo Maggio: Italy celebrates Labour Day with 1 May holiday
28 Apr, 2021
Italy marks International Workers Day with national holiday.
Italy celebrates Labour Day - known as the Festa dei Lavoratori or Festa del Lavoro - with a nationwide public holiday on 1 May.
The event, marked in more than 80 countries, is held in commemoration of the labour movement and the social and economic achievements of trade unions on behalf of workers.
The holiday on Saturday 1 May - Primo Maggio - is normally marked in Rome with a large, free May Day concert however this year - due to covid-19 - the annual
I come from a working class family who votes Labour. Going to Church schools in the 1990s wasn’t easy at all, class war was rife and most of my schoolmates hailed from more affluent families from less southern areas. New ‘friends’, new settings, a new educational establishment: I was lost and there was definitely no space to be in a class of my own – unless that meant being one of the very few Labour.
So, May 2 – in those years – meant you shouldn’t really tell the others you’ve been to the May Day parade. I did that only once, in my first year, and was pinned down for going to the ‘carnival’, as a banker’s son put it to me with a disdain that still rings in my ear to this day.
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