31 July 2015
Rita Vicinanza
Last Sunday a thousand between singers and musicians gathered in Cesena, northern Italy, to perform ‘Learn to Fly’ by Foo Fighters.
After conceiving the idea in May 2014, Fabio Zaffagnini and the team behind Rockin’1000 worked hard to bring their project to life, finally hosting a few days ago an unprecedented event which they hope will convince Grohl and co. to schedule a gig in the Romagna region.
A year-long of efforts paid off in the satisfaction of planners and participators. Following months of promoting, auditioning, and crowdfunding, the Rockin’1000 team only selected the best singers, guitarists, bassists and drummers, chose arranger and composer Marco Sabiu to direct the musicians in the Parco Ippodromo and eventually collected the 40,000 Euros they needed to subsidise the event.
Even before the official video was released, enthusiastic fans had been bombarding social media with their joy for achieving a similar triumph. Understandably so, for this event not only qualifies as the biggest Foo Fighters tribute to date, there’s a good chance it will be able to persuade the band to grant the fans’ wish they played in Romagna again.
The band is in fact known for being particularly generous with their supporters, as it happened after the 2006 Beaconsfield Mine collapse incident when Grohl promised tickets to any Foo Fighters concert upon hearing that the two trapped miners had asked to have their music put on the MP3 players they were sent down while waiting to be rescued or, more recently, when they invited an 8-year-old fan onstage to sing Times Like These with them.
While these were spontaneous acts, one wonders if Grohl and co. could remain unmoved by what Rockin’1000 did in their honour. We can only wait to see what the Foos will do once they find out about it!
