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Pizzica has transcended its Dionysian roots to find its place in the centre of the biggest festival in Italy, and is now performed worldwide – but as with all ancient arts, adapting to modernity ...

TRAVERSE CITY — When Alla Boara plays The Alluvion in Traverse City on Feb. 21, the Ohio ensemble will unfurl a unique melding of Italian folk songs that may be a century old with additional ...

This is why an Italian protest folk song is going viral as Iranian women lead protests An Italian protest folk song which gained prominence during World War II as an anthem of resistance against the ...

Night of the Taranta, an Italian folk music festival akin to Woodstock, celebrates a musical tradition that dates to antiquity. The Folk Music Festival That Started With A Spider Bite The tarantella ...

What is a Tarantella? How do you dance it? Where does it come from? Traditional Italian musician Francesco Bufarini presents four seminars on the culture of Italian folk music. 17 August, ...

"We will forever be grateful to Giovanna Marini, for her precious and also courageous research work. We lose an authentic storyteller," writes Angelo Branduardi among the many who bid farewell on ...

Stellar folk musician joins forces with Italian multi-instrumentalist to connect African and Arabic sounds with traditional forms – it’s stunning Folk music shouldn’t have stars, but Rhiannon Giddens’ ...

CALVINO, the consummate allegorical fantasist, set himself the task of collating and documenting what was hitherto an untapped source of oral folk tradition in his adopted homeland. What he discovered ...

Get ready for a day full of Italian cars and motorcycles, plus folk dance! Courtney is with the Bambini and Balliamo folk dancers.