Tag Archives: Italian Folk

Aimed by accordion player Enzo Conti, Tre Martelli (translated: 3 Hammerings) continue steadily to explore the turn-of-the-century music and dance traditions of their homeland. A mixture of folk and traditional music, the band’s audio has been known as by FolkRoots “a classic joy to hear.” While their tunes tell of …

A fascinating case of success due primarily to person to person, Italian singer/songwriter Davide Vehicle De Sfroos sold a large number of records prior to the critics as well as the big systems started noticing him — and, actually most strikingly, he did therefore singing tracks in the dialect of …

Singing within their local Sardinian language, Cordas et Cannas provide musical expression towards the poetic lyrics of Sardinia’s great songwriters. Indigenous Sardinian musical instruments like the piccolo-like sulitto, the jaw harp trunfa, as well as the polyphonic reed-instrument laundeddas give a connect to the region’s musical previous while a number …

Blessed in Italy but raised in Quebec, vocalist and guitarist Marco Calliari have been an associate of Anonymus — a Montreal-based steel music group that formed in 1989 — for 15 years ahead of striking out being a single artist. Although band continues to be an electric outlet for his …

The ancient musical and dance traditions of southern Italy are resurrected by world-class tambourine player, percussionist, vocalist, dancer and actress Alessandra Belloni and her New York-based band, I Guillari Piazza (Players from the Square). Performers in residence on the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NEW YORK as well …

Italy’s folk music custom is merged with jazz, rock and roll, and world affects to make the lively dance music of Tuscany-born melodeon (diatonic accordion) participant Riccardo Tesi. Furthermore to performing being a soloist and with French mandolin participant Patrick Vaillant and jazz reeds participant Gian-luigi Travesi, Tesi provides lent …

Blessed into an artistic family members in Alghero, Sardinia, an isle from the Mediterranean coastline of Italy, Franca Masu understood from an early on age group that she was designed to sing. In the middle-’90s she fulfilled several fellow Sardi jazz music artists, with whom she performed, exercising her chops …

Though located in Germany, acoustic jazz quartet Quadro Nuevo dedicated its innovative energies to resurrecting the fading musical customs of Europe all together, specifically embracing the tango. Guitarist Robert Wolf, reedist Mulo Francel, accordionist Andreas Hinterseher, and bassist D.D. Lowka co-founded Quadro Nuevo in Salzburg in 1996. Originally commissioned to …

Sardinian-born, flamenco guitarist Marino de Rosas initial found the instrument at age 14. By the first ’60s, he became a member of his first music group, the Devils, motivated by such hitmakers as the Shadows, the Projects, and undoubtedly, the Beatles. The music group released many singles and made an …

La Musica Della Mafia may be the name directed at a collective of Calabrian Mafia music artists that wrote and recorded Il Canto Di Malavita. The group began as vigilantes that seen themselves protectors of their fellow Italian natives. Fighting with each other against the corrupt, monarchic guideline that overcame …