Colligo Festival

Colligo Festival in Gravina in Puglia

The Colligo Festival is a boutique event dedicated to contemporary music and culture, held in Gravina in Puglia, in the heart of the Alta Murgia, in the province of Bari. The festival has made the Cinema Sidion on Via Bari its home, a historic space that the event reawakens, transforming it into a stage for concerts, DJ sets, talks, and screenings.

The festival's name pays homage to the Madonna della Stella aqueduct bridge, an iconic landmark of the Murgia landscape, and is rooted in the Latin verb colligere, meaning to unite, bind together, gather, and recall to memory. It is precisely this vocation for connecting people, languages, and generations that drives every edition.

A festival of music, encounters, and visions

The Colligo Festival program weaves live music with words and images: alongside concerts and DJ sets, there are talks with key figures from the Italian cultural scene and screenings of documentaries related to the Apulian territory. Over time, the festival has hosted prominent names from the national independent and electronic scene, offering the public in the Bari hinterland a high-caliber artistic experience.

Organized by the Associazione Culturale Un Ponte together with the Associazione Culturale Mondo Beat, the Colligo Festival is part of the Puglia Sounds circuit, the Apulia Region's program dedicated to music, and is supported by the Municipality of Gravina in Puglia. One of its stated goals is to de-seasonalize cultural offerings, bringing major events to the area in autumn, far from the usual summer concentration.

Gravina in Puglia and the Alta Murgia

Gravina in Puglia, a city of art overlooking the stream of the same name and surrounded by the Alta Murgia National Park, provides the festival with a striking backdrop of history, nature, and tradition. The Colligo Festival helps to enhance this heritage, blending the vitality of the contemporary music scene with the charm of a unique territory in inland Puglia.