Festival announces Foo Fighters as the first headliner

The Town, the new festival of music, culture and art in São Paulo, by the same creators of Rock in Rio, announced Thursday night, 12, its first international attraction, the Foo Fighters, who will perform on the Skyline Stage on September 9.

The band, who played epic shows in 2001 and 2019 at Rock in Rio Brasil, will return to the country after four years to play in the first edition of the festival. The event also confirmed singer Ludmila as an attraction on the same stage, on September 7. The singer has also been confirmed from Rio de Janeiro to attend the 2024 Rock in Rio World Stage.

The Foo Fighters, whose blockbuster hits All My Life, Times Like This and Best Of You became the most triumphant in Grammy Awards history by winning all three award categories for which they were nominated, in April 2022 in total, the group led by Dave Grohl, drummer Formerly at Nirvana, they have amassed 15 Gramophone Golds since their formation in 1994, and their latest studio album Midnight Medicine, released in 2021, is already considered one of the 150 best albums of all time. the time.

Fans will be able to check out how the group will perform on their next and much anticipated tour. This will undoubtedly be a soulful historical show, with songs from their latest album Medicine at Midnight, reminiscent of the main hits of the band, which span their discography.

The album is the tenth studio album by Foo Fighters, which was released in February 2021 and which sold over a million copies in the US within just three days of release, and is considered one of the best albums of all time.

Ludmila, at just 27 years old, is one of the major names in Brazilian music today. The singer played a historic show at Rock in Rio in 2022 headlining the Palco Sunset show, becoming the highest rated presentation of Multishow among the citizens of the edition, in addition to taking control of the festival’s social networks, achieving the greatest repercussions at all points, and increasing the audience. , references, citations and even occupied the first place in the trending topics in Brazil and the world.

The singer promises to rock the crowd on the stages of Skyline (The Town 2023) and Mundo (Rock in Rio 2024) with the hits Rainha da Favela, A Danada sou eu, Caminha de Onda, Invocada, Verdinha and Hoje, among other tracks. Ludmilla has been nominated twice for a Latin Grammy Award – winning once, with her fourth studio album Numanice 2 (2022) – six times for the MTV Europe Music Awards for Best Brazilian Artist and several times for the Multishow Brazil Music Award, winning twice in 2019.