Anna Cinzia Villani, Giovannangelo De Gennaro and Claudio Cavallo at “The Zampogna”Festival
The XXIII edition of Maranola’s The Zampogna Festival will host several artists, with a focus on Salento that will have as protagonists some of the most important musicians of the new popular music from Salento. The trio composed of the percussionist Claudio Cavallo, the extraordinary voice of Anna Cinzia Villani and the all-round musician Giovannangelo De Gennaro, Calixtinus’ founder, medieval music ensamble. La XXIII edizione del Festival “La Zampogna” di Maranola ospiterà diversi artisti, con un focus dedicato al Salento che…
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Maranola’s Zampogna Festival, this year the XXIII edition
It arrives at the XXIII edition the Maranola’s ZAmpogna Festival, the initiative dedicated to a very particular traditional musical instrument and to all the stories, activities and professions that are around it. The project by Abbrogio Sparagna and Erasmo Treglia engages artists and tourists all over Italy for twon days of memories and knowledges’ partimony that has to be known and preserved. An inportant news for 2016’s edition is the Young Musicians Award, through which the Festival wants to promote…
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The Association “Notte Battente, ethnic-popular music” at Soveria Mannelli (CZ)
At Soveria Mannelli has been constituted the Association “Notte Battente, ethnic-popular music” with the seat in the cinema city street “Via col Vento“, to underline the artistic vocation of the Association. The founder members are Massimo Chiodo, Angela Bianco e Salvatore Velino, who assume the position of President, Vice President- Secretary and Vice President- Treasurer, supported by the councilors Antonio Abbruzzese e Franco Spezzano. Gianfranco Bianco, Vincenzo Perri e Danilo Perrone are the others partners of the Association and of…
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Southern Dance classes restart at Stable Laboratory
In January the Southern Dance Classes of the Stable Laboratory restart in the different branches of: Naples – Historic Centre every monday from 19.30 to 21 ( starting from 4 January) Led Spazio Danza Napoli via francesco del giudice n.9 TEL: 081 458532 – 366 3712991 E-MAIL:led.spazio@gmail.com Portici every tuesday from 19 to 20.30 (starting from 12 January) Accademia Iris Via diaz, n. 57 TEL: 3935860539 E-MAIL:accademiairis@gmail.com Pomigliano d’arco every wednesday from 19.30 to 21 (starting from 13 January) Centro…
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5 poems dedicated to Befana, the italian poets face the Epiphany
In addition to the famous nursery rhyme “Befana comes in the night”, even some popular italian poets dedicated poetical compositions to Befana, facing the tradition in different ways. Below we show Gianni Rodari, Giorgio Caproni, Guido Gozzano and Giovanni Pascoli’s poems. Oltre alla nota filastrocca “La Befana vien di notte”, anche alcuni noti poeti italiani hanno dedicato dei componimenti poetici alla Befana, affrontando la tradizione in maniera differente. Di seguito riportiamo le poesie di Gianni Rodari, Giorgio Caproni, Guido Gozzano…
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New album and new song for Nd’Arranciamu
The new album of Nd’Arranciamu band from Vibo Valentia comes out with the song “L’angeli cantanu”, taken from a popular-religoius song written at the beginning of 1800 by the abbot Giovanni Conia di Galatro. The popular team directed by Felice Napoleone, who left from Porto Salvo in 2009 with passion, is ready to promote the new album. Waiting to finish the album, in these weeks the song “L’angeli cantanu” comes out. The song is the result of a clear research,…
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The Corde Oblique band works on the new album after the China tour
The Chinese tour of the Progressive Ethereal Folk italian Band Corde Oblique is ended, after 9 live performances. The band is now in the studios to record the sixth album for which is active on Musicraiser.com the crwofunding campaign for the new album’s promotion, that will allow them to collect money for the sound recording’s expenses. The new songs are rich in collaborations, with italian and foreign artists, among them Denitza Seraphimova voice of the Bulgarian Irfan band and Walter…
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The Accordeon Classique ends the year with his first cd
The Accordeon Classique is a virtuoso accordion group, an instrument unfairly considered for a long time minor because it is aassociated with the popular music. The formation was born three years ago as a quintet, expression of Borgofranco”Accordeon” school operative for a period of twenty years and created by Cinzia Tarditi, a teacher graduated at the conservatory. At the beginning the group was composed by four traditional accordions and by a bass accordion. The musical ensamble gets rich with two…
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