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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Scolarships by SUDANZARE for traditional dance teachers
SUDANZARE Italy announces a series of three-months scolarships. The selection is based on the resume related to the studies on traditional dances, supllied by a video. The resumes must be sended via mail with the object: “BORSA DI STUDIO LUGLIO 2016” not later than the 17 April 2016 to: sudanzare.school@gmail.com I candidati/e possono essere convocati per un colloquio I candidati/e considerati/e idonei/e saranno poi contattati dalla segreteria I corsi previsti per la Borsa di Studio di Luglio 2016: Pedagogia base della danza; Pedagogia della danza…
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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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Calabria Sona: made in Calabria music pass through here
Calabria Sona, circuit born in 2012, continues it work of promotion of great “Made in Calabria” artists and events. Artists and music that leave from the territory but that have a national and international importance. Starting from the Calabrian Tarantella’s success, saw at the beginning as marginal music and that gradually become a real popular event, this ferment it’s acquiring credibility, prestige and even wider spaces, to being now perceived as a real multi generational cultural movement. Calabria Sona con…
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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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Lupi della Majella: the abruzzese tradition’s recovery
The Gran Sasso and the Maiella, natur’s oasis and magnificent myths, with their impressive and majestic beauties, have always been the symbol and the reference of the whole Abruzzo overlooked by their tops, the highest and the most picturesque of the Italy Apennines. This attractive mountain systems,in their sublime and ancestral silences, are covered by a myriad of myths, tales and mysteries, often tied to traditions, rites and pagan cults. From here it takes the name on of the most…
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La Notte della Taranta ha un nuovo direttore artistico: Daniele Durante
E’ Daniele Durante, musicista, docente di etnomusicologia del Conservatorio di Lecce e fondatore nel 1975 del Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, il nuovo direttore artistico de La Notte della Taranta. Il CdA della Fondazione ha affidato all’etnomusicologo salentino, tra i massimi esperti di musica popolare in Italia, il compito di elaborare il progetto artistico-culturale relativo alla scelta degli spettacoli che formeranno il Festival itinerante e il Concertone di Melpignano 2016. Nella stessa seduta il CdA ha confermato l’incarico anche a Luigi Chiriatti,…
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Talea, Giulio Cantore & Almadira’s first album
The 14 March it comes out the first album of the singer-songwriter and luthier Giulio Cantore, named “Talea”. “Talea” is a plant’s part that, buried, takes root and produces a new specimen. In the same way, the trio Giulio Cantore & Almadira renovates the song shape with a balanced dosage of Flamenco and eastern music, western african rythms and popular music elements, leaving wide space to the instruments’ dialogue. Giulio Cantore, classe 1984, è cantautore, chitarrista e liutaio. Dal 2006 al…
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