Riccione (Rimini), September 10, 2026 – The concert of Gianni Morandi, scheduled for Thursday, September 10 in Piazzale Roma as the grand finale of the Riccione Music City festival, has been canceled due to bad weather.
Arpae and Civil Protection have indeed issued an orange weather alert for severe thunderstorms valid until midnight tomorrow, along with a yellow alert for possible river level rises.
Tickets will be refunded by September 30. The decision is due to the bad weather forecast for these hours and the still uncertain weather for the evening.
The Campobasso concert had already been canceled
Tuesday, September 8 weather conditions had already forced the organizers to cancel the Gianni Morandi concert in Campobasso: “What a pity – the artist said on social videos – I hope to come back here soon. I really cared a lot.”
The first time on stage was in Riccione
In a recent interview with Carlino, Gianni Morandi recounted his singing debut, which took place in Riccione in 1958: “It happened with the orchestra of my teacher Alda Scaglioni, I was just thirteen and a half years old – he recalls -. Back then there was the Turismo café concert. That summer when they asked my father to let me go, because we had to do four months from June to September in that venue, Scaglioni said: ‘Unfortunately, I can’t pay, but I offer a place to sleep and food, you have to manage a bit.’ So my father gave me 500 lire, with that money you could eat once at a restaurant. And he told me: ‘You have to send me the list of how you spend this money.’ When I sang there was always some foreign tourist who gave me 10 lire as a tip. In front of the venue there was a watermelon seller, so I always went to get a slice.”
“C’era un ragazzo Estate”, Morandi’s tour
Gianni Morandi’s new tour is the occasion to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the song “C’era un ragazzo che come me amava i Beatles e i Rolling Stones” written in 1966 by Franco Migliacci and Mauro Lusini, and certainly one of the most important songs of Morandi’s career. The setlist will include both the new single Monghidoro – a song written for him by Lorenzo Jovanotti and released last April 3 – and the great classics of his repertoire, which continue to be passed down from generation to generation. The artist will be accompanied on stage by a superband that will enrich the atmosphere of each song with talent and energy.
The upcoming dates of Gianni Morandi’s tour
Here are the upcoming dates of Gianni Morandi’s tour: September 12, 2026 in Ostuni, Arena Bianca (Foro Boario), at 9:30 pm, then in Barletta, Fossato del Castello, on September 14 at 9:30 pm. Morandi will then go to Sicily. First to Palermo (September 17, Teatro di Verdura) and then to Catania (September 19, Villa Bellini). There are also Macerata (September 22) and Massa (September 24). Finally, the tour closes with concerts in Torbole sul Garda, Spiaggia alle Foci del Sarca (September 26), Bergamo (September 28), Naples (October 1) and Locarno (October 4).
The forecasts on the coast for Thursday, September 10
From midnight on September 10 there is an orange alert in Parma, Reggio, Modena, Bologna, Ferrara, Ravenna, Forlì-Cesena, Rimini. Yellow throughout the territory for rivers, floods and landslides.
Severe thunderstorms are also expected, more likely in the western Apennine areas and the central-eastern sector, with possible associated effects and damage.
In the areas affected by precipitation, particularly in the central-eastern hilly and mountainous sectors, localized runoff and erosion phenomena, rapid rises in levels in the minor hydrographic network and landslides will be possible. In the main hydrographic network of regional watercourses, exceedances of threshold 1 are expected, especially in the mountainous and hilly stretches.
