“The connections between the popular music and the singer-songwriters’ songs” by Elvio Rocchi
We are going to propose an interesting article by Elvio Rocchi, our musician active in Colombia, dedicated to our music, that explains some basic concepts, as the relation among pizzica and tarantella and the tarantula’s bite and that tells the Jewish origin of “Alla fiera dell’est”. Elvio made a concert last week in Bogotà named “Musica Popolare Italiana” dedicated to our tradition’s music, a kind of trip beginning from the traditional songs and ending to the author music, with Fabrizio De…
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It comes out Micamicapisci, the video that names Misga’s tour
MISGA, the band from Andria, are just come back from the european tour, realized by Freecom with Puglia Sound’s support: after playing in France, Belgium and Germany, they come out with MICAMICAPISCI, the video of the song that named the tour. The video idea was born by the necessity to place side by side an apparentely nonsense text to a story thatm in a sharp and ironic way, relates the inconveniences of an emerging band forced into a system that, only…
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Tour in France for Tarantula Garganica
They will be “Tarantelle del Gargano’s ambassadors” in France: from 13 to 17 april 2016 Tarantula Garganica – the folk group from gargano – will perform in Parigi and in Angers. Born in 2002 Tarantula Garganica already commend several shows outside the national borders: from England to Spain, from Portugal to Belgium, from Germany to Canada. On April 2016 the comeback to France. And it is actually here that the rythm and the sounds of Tarantelle del Gargano will resound from…
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Great success in France for DeCalamus
Great success in France for DeCalamus The ensemble from Lazio presented in preview the new album at Printemps des bretelles Festival and in Paris at Louis Carlesimo’s Foundation. A great audience success accompanied DeCalamus’ french mini tour, who presented in preview the new album’s songs coming out in the following months. The first stop-over was at D’Illkirch-Graffenstaden for the Festival “Le Printemps Des Bretelles”, an internazional event dedicated to the bellows’ instruments, where on 18 March among the Magic Mirrors Room the…
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The sicilian Fasola, the carnival and harvest’s dance
The sicilian Fasola, the carnival and harvest’s dance The Fasola is a sicilian tradizional dance. The Tubbiana’s Fasola during the carnival period is the most common dance and at the same time the most cheerful and charming in Sicily, as to say a tarantella accompanied with the song “Carnascialata dei Pulcinelli”. While women used to dance the fasola, men accompany them with the singing. It’s a very old dance, danced in the courtyards and used during carnival. A variation was the Fasola, danced in…
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Os Argonautas the band from Bari to Lisbona for the next album
The crew of the band from Bari OS ARGONAUTAS unloads to Lisbon to a concert in the event TrotaMundos dedicated to the diffusion of the musical culture from different sources. Guests of the italian Forrò Miòr (band of brazilian music now living at Lisbona) the Os Argonautas will retrace an author repertoire of italian, portuguese and brazilian music. The band is now engaged to bring its music “patchwork” in the land that has mainly inspired them contributing, this time, to the italian…
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Giulio Cantore, liuthier and member of Almadira, introduces us to his art
The 14 March cames out the first Giulio Cantore and Almadira’s album “Talea”. Giulio Cantore is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and liuthier. From 2006 to 2008 he attends the Centopievese Strings Instruments School and learns to shape the wood, to build strings instruments. In the interview realized for Italian Popular Music by Agnese Ermacora (trio’s press office), Giulio describes us his builder’s work. –Come nasce una chitarra? “Quando decidi di fare uno strumento, devi sapere precisamente cosa vuoi ottenere. Devi immaginare il suono,…
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The Corajìsima, an event to relive the tradition
Thanks to Andrea Bressi the ancient Corajìsima tradition, still so common in many Abruzzo countries, was presented during an importan event that took place at Torrevecchia Teatina, Chieti’s province. The initiative, from 11 to 13 March, was promoted by the Teatine Traditions Company with the direction of the professor Francesco Giovanni Maria Stoppa, Director of the Territorial Anthropology for Turism of Chieti’s D’Anunzio University. Only Calabrian member Andrea Bessi, known for his popular music shows and for the accurate researches in…
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