Dario Ei Meridionali wins “Mimmo Bucci” award
Dario Ei Meridionali wins “Mimmo Bucci” award Dario Losito, group’s frontman, as well as violinist, Gianluca Paradiso (bass) and Mirko Inchingolo (guitar and voice) are the members of Dario Ei Meridionali group from Andria. With their folk and popular music win the eight edition “Mimmo Bucci” Award’s prize, with their unpublished work “Polvere da sparo”. On Saturday 30 January the Petruzzelli Theatre of Bari saw eight artists performances, from different music categories: the jury and the public decided the success of the…
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New album for FemmeFolk
NEW ALBUM FOR FEMMEFOLK The new FemmeFolk album comes out on Friday 5 February for Bajun Records, available on iTunes and in all the digital stores. An album with rich textures, elegant and simple and direct. FemmeFolk doesn’t fear to propose again or compose ancient taste’s harmonies, but reexamine them with contagious lightness and love of life. Il progetto FemmeFolk nasce nel 2012, dall’incontro di quattro donne con storie, gusti, formazioni musicali e personali diverse che hanno scelto di coltivare…
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Veeblefetzer, roman band among blues, balkan texture and circus music
Guitars on the brink between reggae and manouche that mingle to the woodwinds’ warmth on a rythmic contraption made by drums; low frequencies entrusted to the sousaphone’s bragger and ruddy style, a procession tuba bass. This is the Veeblefetzer’s instrumentation, a roman quartet with a decisively recognizable and original sound. The band, to be listened and relistened, melds the blues’ atmospheres with the balkan and south american textures and a circus and pirate music. The team is composed by voice,…
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The Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino with Ludovico Einaudi in the new video “Taranta”
New video for the Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, with the eminent collaboration of Ludovico Einaudi. The video realized by Gabriele Surdo, is in black and white and is extracted by the last group’s album “Quaratnta (Ponderosa)”, that celebrates the band’s 40 years. The faces in the foreground, the instruments protagonists, a rythm that starts, and a swirling dance, from the beginning to the end. “Taranta” (the song’s title) eroded to the essential, squeezed, and for this reason more powerful. Il maestro torinese…
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Companatica comes back, the Tuscany Arci festival with 5 dates
The people’s houses are rediscovered thanks to Companatica, the traditional festival oragnized by Tuscany Arci that commits to the culinary experience the music, both cultured and popular. Five are the live dates (four lunches and a dinner), from January to May, that will take place in the Arci clubs: the musical guests will be selected by La Scena Musica collective, a florentine music association that will make available its best artists. An event for month, from january to may, each…
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CoroMoro, the integration example that gives hope
“ CoroMoro ” is a music band composed by 10 enthusiastic “non professionals”: two are italians, the other 8 come from Africa (from Senagal, Gambia, Costa d’Avorio and from Ghana). One of them is a political refugee, the other 7 are asylum seekers. They are arrived to Italy, in the Lanzo valleys, in 2014. They restarted and, to send a strong sharing, integration and anti-racism message, they put themselves out there. They go around the cities and propose, with vitality, irony and…
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Brigada Pirata, the italian pirate folk band
They disguise themselves as pirates, sing and play instruments as the bodhran (irish drum), the guitart, the violin, and the tin whistle (celtic countries’ piffero) and can be hired for vintage boats meetings, events and displays dedicated to the ancient shipping. Born in 2010 the Brigada Pirata last year was known during te Recco and Camogli Shipping Festival and today it continues to perform in pubs and taverns. Grazie all’esperienza e alla bravura dei musicisti, alcuni dei quali hanno suonato…
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The “City of Ostuni” Folk Group and its president get all the prizes
To the president of the “City of Ostuni” Folk Group the prize Folklore’s Fathers- Meritorious people of the Popular Traditions Italian Federation. It has been delivered to Antonio Greco, the President of “City of Ostuni” Folk Group, the prestigious prize “Folklore’s Fathers- Meritorious people of the Popular Traditions Italian Federation”. The prize is assigned every year by the Popular Traditions Italian Federation to those who had distinguish themselves into folklore’s world and who for years were cultural professionals in organizing folkloristic groups,…
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