Since early February, festival organizers have been attempted to overcome prohibitive public health precarity through developing new event models. Ticketed live streams, drive-in concerts, and even full-fledged productions in games like Minecraft or IMVU emulate a festival-like experience. When the first lockdown stifled Italian agency focusing on cultural sustainability Threes’ summer plans for Nextones, their yearly collaboration with Tones on The Stones, lead Nicola Giuliani saw an opportunity to undertake a different approach: a small festival with 30 attendees in the country’s Northern rural valleys.