After the sold out second New York edition, C2C Festival celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary with an edition that raises the bar even further. The appointment is in Turin from 29 October to 1 November, between OGR, Lingotto and, for the first time after eleven years, the Teatro Carignano, a baroque theater in the heart of the city where in 2010 the world premiere of Kode9 plays Burialone of the performances that made the history of contemporary electronic music. The Smerz will inaugurate the great return of the venue, with a special matinee on Saturday 31 October, dedicated to Big City Lifethe album that marked their definitive consecration.
Added to the names already announced are 19 new shows spanning pop, electronic, rap, jazz, folk and experimental R&B. The opening day at OGR brings The Avalanches, Australian pioneers of sound collage who are anticipating the details of LP4awaited return after six years, together with Shygirl, one of the boldest figures of British electronic pop, ML Buch, interesting voice of the new Nordic scene between dream pop, art rock and psychedelia, and Wendy Eisenberg, musician and composer whose self-titled album is establishing itself as one of the best of the year in the singer-songwriter field.
On Sunday, the festival closes again at OGR with Grouper, Liz Harris' cult project in experimental ambient folk, HEADACHE, a collaboration between Vegyn and the poet Francis Hornsby Clarke suspended between spoken word and atmospheric electronics, Marina Herlop, a Catalan singer and producer who fuses lyrical vocalism and avant-garde electronics, and Carl Stone, a pioneer of live electronic music, present in collaboration with To Listen To, an experimental listening festival of the Turin Conservatory.
At Lingotto, Saturday is the busiest day. Kode9, historic guest of the festival and founder of Hyperdub, returns in an unprecedented back-to-back with RP Boo, founding father of footwork. With them Elias Rønnenfelt, Iceage frontman fresh from a hyper-prolific 2025 between the second soloist Speak Daggers and the album with Vegyn and Dean Blunt, Visible Cloaks, freshly released with Paradessence for RVNG Intl. and their research between Japanese new age and minimalism, and LIIM, an emerging voice from the New York scene between hip-hop, soul and alternative sounds. The Saturday evening is completed by the Hundebiss showcase with Bladeblanc & Giesse, respectively Tamara Stasiuk and Stefano Galli, NEXUS of the pan-African collective Jokkoo and Talpah, a producer from Caserta straddling post-club and trap. Friday is the turn of the Other People showcase, Nicolas Jaar's label, with Fronte Violeta, a collaborative project by Anelena Toku and the sound artist Carla Boregas, Eli Wewentxu, a Mapuche artist whose work intertwines ancestral memory and political tension starting from the violin, and Fake Samo, a Chilean project between experimental electronics, research jazz and live composition.
Still within the main program at Lingotto, confirmed among others are Arca, which returns to C2C after over a decade, Robyn, coming out with Sexistential seven years after the last solo album, Kelela, Yung Lean & Bladee for the first time together in Italy, Oklou, underscores, Chanel Beads, Theo Parrish in extended set, Chuquimamani-Condori with his project DJ E, Crystallmess, Joanne Robertson and KMRU.
Additionally, as part of the twenty-fifth, C2C will land at London's Barbican Center for the first time with an event on 15 October, during Frieze London Week, marking a further expansion of the festival's geography. Further initiatives related to the anniversary will be announced in the coming weeks.
Super Early Bird tickets for OGR evenings are available starting from 15 euros on Dice.fm. Those for the Carignano Theater will be on presale from 6 June, with pre-emption for Passport and Golden Pass holders. Sales for the Barbican open from Friday 29 May at barbican.org.uk. The call for C2C Curators, a free training program for new music curators dedicated to the memory of the founder Sergio Ricciardone, remains open until June 13th.
Info and tickets on clubtoclub.it.
