Suzanne Vega: three live dates in Italy next summer

Just a few months after her spring dates, Suzanne Vega returns to Italy with a new run of summer shows as part of the "Flying with Angels Tour 2026". A central figure in the reshaping of urban folk from the Eighties onward, the American singer-songwriter has built a body of work grounded in precise, spare storytelling, often set against everyday backdrops yet shot through with a gaze that is both analytical and lyrical.

The tour takes its name from the album “Flying With Angels”, released in May 2025, a recent work that now sits alongside an already well-established catalogue. The setlist planned for the Italian dates blends the best-known songs with new material, keeping things essential on the sonic front as well. On stage alongside Vega will be guitarist Gerry Leonard, a longtime collaborator also known for his work with David Bowie, and cellist Stephanie Winters, for a lineup that favors intimate dynamics and direct interaction with the audience.

Here are the announced Italian dates for July:

• 20 July 2026 – Rome, Casa del Jazz – Park
• 23 July 2026 – Carpi, Piazzale Re Astolfo
• 24 July 2026 – Monforte d'Alba (CN), Auditorium Horszowski

Suzanne Vega is one of the pioneers of the revival of female singer-songwriters at the turn of the 80s and 90s. With her intimate ballads she paved the way for a new generation of women songwriters, working within an acoustic folk sound of great elegance and sensitivity, yet capable of evolving over time and opening up to other styles (pop, electronica, jazz, bossa nova). With at least a couple of absolute masterpieces to her name: the self-titled “Suzanne Vega” from 1985 and “Solitude Standing”, released two years later.

"She is the most personal, strongest and most complete singer-songwriter of recent years", the New York Times proclaimed at the time of her debut. And no prophecy ever proved more accurate, because it was Suzanne Nadine Vega who anticipated the rebirth of female singer-songwriting across the Atlantic, paving the way for the generation of Tori Amos, Sheryl Crow, Lisa Germano, Fiona Apple, Ani DiFranco, Alanis Morissette. Even though the Californian artist has always had to fight against the resistance and prejudice of a music business already reluctant to give women their due, let alone a singer-songwriter who has made sobriety and discretion her trademark. An anti-diva by choice, in short. "If you keep a low profile you can last longer, even if you maybe don't end up in the papers", she told us with a hint of satisfaction during a phone conversation.

Her style will remain a classic of intimate female singing. Her introverted strength and her atmospheric magic stem from a shrewd fusion of its component parts: a dreamlike voice, lyrics as dark as they are delivered like a fairy tale, sounds that are at once technological and chamber-like, and moments of real emotional impact. A rarefied synthesis of two clashing anxieties, the emancipatory yearning of the 70s and the urban unease of the 90s.

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