MODENA, PIAZZA ROMA
Saturday, 24 July

“I don’t want to be on the sharp end,” Robert Plant told the musicians he had gathered around him. The man who fronted Led Zeppelin in the world’s stadiums wanted another voice beside his own. In Saving Grace he shares the microphone with singer Suzi Dian, and at times hands it over entirely. The band came together in 2019 close to Plant’s home in the Welsh borderlands: Matt Worley on banjo, cuatro and guitar, guitarist Tony Kelsey, drummer Oli Jefferson and cellist Barney Morse-Brown. For years they played small local venues, with no press releases and not even a website. Their album Saving Grace, released by Nonesuch in September 2025, gathers traditional ballads, blues and gospel alongside songs by Low, The Low Anthem and Moby Grape, produced by Plant and the band themselves. Plant has long been at home in this music. Raising Sand, his album with Alison Krauss, won five Grammys including Album of the Year, and in September 2026 the Americana Music Association honoured him with its Lifetime Achievement Award at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. At the Jazz Open Modena, Robert Plant performs at Piazza Roma with Saving Grace and Suzi Dian.