After the news of Darkness. expected at the 2026 Festival on 8 July, Pistoia Blues announces another great international group: Ian Anderson's Jethro Tull will perform in Piazza Duomo for the 45th edition of the festival on 10 July 2026. This is the fourth participation in the festival for Jethro Tull: the band that made the history of British progressive rock has already performed on the Piazza Duomo stage in 1999, 2003 and 2008.
The legendary prog band of “Aqualung” and “Locomotive Breath” has announced that it will continue the “Curiosity Tour” also in 2026 to present its latest album “Curious Ruminant”.
Tickets on sale from 2pm on Wednesday 10 December on the Ticketone, Ticketmaster, Vivaticket circuits and usual presales in the area.
Consisting of nine tracks, with durations ranging from 2 and a half minutes to almost 17 minutes, Jethro Tull's latest album, “Curious Ruminant”, confirms the singer-songwriter identity of the latest works of Anderson's project, author of all the tracks, with his legendary transverse flute raging and decidedly more at ease in the studio than he now appears live, even if he always clings to simple vocal lines, all in the medium-low register.
In addition to current members David Goodier, John O'Hara and Scott Hammond, the album features former keyboardist Andrew Giddings and drummer James Duncan. It also marks the recording debut of guitarist Jack Clark.
The sonic magniloquence of the rock band of “Aqualung” and “Thick As A Brick” resurfaces only at times, but in its artisanal simplicity, “Curious Ruminant” reminds us that Jethro Tull were (also) a great folk band, taking refuge in the acoustic atmospheres of those precious beginnings of the late 60s and early 70s, at the dawn of that prog era that Anderson and Soci would later embrace with enthusiasm, becoming its protagonists undisputed.
The name Jethro Tull officially debuted in 1968 at the Marquee Club in London, where the band quickly gained a substantial following. The first great exploit came that same year at the Sunbury Jazz And Blues Festival. “This Was”, the debut album with the Anderson, Cornick, Bunker and Abrahams lineup, inaugurates a history marked by numerous personnel changes: after the entry of Martin Barre, around thirty musicians will take turns in the project.
The Jethro Tull brand remains active today, with Ian Anderson touring the band around the world for around a hundred concerts a year.
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