La Musica Folk, Goffredo Plastino’s anthology
La Musica Folk, Goffredo Plastino’s anthology La musica folk by Goffredo Plastino Milano, il Saggiatore 2016, 1282 pages, € 49. With La musica folk Goffredo Plastino maybe published the book of the life, the most impressive container, the most useful, opened toward every other study. The ’60s and ’70s folk music revival was one of the most intense and prolific cultural process of italian history. Promoted and represented by Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano, dall’Almanacco Popolare, by Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare, by Canzoniere…
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The female folk group debuts at Galtellì
It starts from the heart of one of the most authentic and untouched historic centres as that of Galtellì (NU) is, the adventure of the new stars among the folk groups of Bassa Baronia. It’s called Galtellì Istellas de Janas, is a female group and appeared the first time in public on April 28, the day of the Sardinia’s celebrations. A day rich in story and meanings, that the new folk group from Galtellì now will carry to the events they…
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Reggio Calabria’s Lanternari at Trento’s Magna Grecia Festival
«Simu belli, simu rari, simu u gruppu di Lanternari»: the present themselves in this way, secure and fun, the Lanternari, the young folk group from Reggio Calabria that closed the fifth edition of Magna Grecia Festival on sunday evening, in which Calabria meets Trentino. Organizes by the association Magna Grecia from Trento, the festival proposed as usual, an intense three days event in Fiera Square, with positive values among which the voluntary work, the social commitment, the typical cooking, the traditional music…
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12° National Convention of Australian people from Trentino
12° National Convention of Australian people from Trentino The people from Trentino who live in Australia are about 5000. Between Friday April 22 and Sunday April 24 at Myrteford there was the 12° National Convention of Australian People from Trentino. The 2016 meeting was the occasion to celebrate also the 50° anniversary of Father Ferruccio Bertagnolli’s clerical job and the 50° anniversary of the Myrtleford Trentino Club foundation. In the delegation from Trento, the provincial council members Lucia Maestri e Claudio Civettini….
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Nuoro Ciusa Institute at its first Folk festival
A coloured party that of Saturday 13 February at Nuoro Ciusa Institute, where dozens of students wore traditional costumes giving life to the firs Folk Festival of the school. The Festival “A borghe ‘e ballu” was commissioned by the new Ciusa Folk Group, coordinated by the professor Rita Porcu and strongly supported by the School Leader, professor Francesco Cucca, who has been particularly favorable to let relive in the school moments of intense past revival, strongly connotative of the social…
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New location for the sardinian folk group Thiu Juanne Piu
It was born in 1982 the folk group Thiu Juanne Piu, gathering the inheritance handed down by the first siniscolese group that born in the baroniese center in the far 1954. The brotherhood, that today has a 34 years of activity experience, knew the first performance at Barletta, taking part at a school laboratory called “boys and folklore”, winning the first prize. Da lì, in maniera quasi spontanea, il gruppo rappresentato da Marcello Mele, che oggi conta 40 iscritti, ha iniziato…
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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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