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 ...

Alla Boara wants to preserve Italy's traditional music. The Cleveland-based group is traveling around the country, offering a modern arrangement of some near-extinct folk songs. It recently added a ...

For the 21st year, thousands of visitors came to Little Italy to experience San Diego’s annual Italian festival, eating their way through authentic Italian classic dishes, moving to traditional ...

This article examines how Roberto Leydi and Giovanna Marini, two important figures of the Italian ‘folk revival’, negotiated diverse American cultural influences and adapted them to the political ...

BRATTLEBORO — Boston-based early music ensemble In Stile Moderno returns to Brattleboro at 8 p.m. Friday for the last concert of its 2018-2019 season, with "La Vesuviana: Tracing the Sources of ...

A new diverse mix of musical entertainment and food is slated for the third annual Latrobe Italian Festival, returning this weekend to the city’s First Ward neighborhood. Organized by Michael Ciotti, ...

Newpoli, a band Songlines says grabs “southern Italian traditional music by the neck and recasts it in a dramatic style,” will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12, in the Avalon Theatre’s Stoltz ...

Internationally honored, singer, percussionist, healer and director Alessandra Belloni, joined by her Italian folk music/theater/dance company I Giullari di Piazza, will present the special holiday ...

Remi Coonce, 2, and her cousin Cora Bahler, 6, dance to recorded Italian folk music Saturday in front of the main music stage at the festival as musicians prepare to perform. Musical guests are ...

The tarantella is a lively folk dance and musical style originating in southern Italy's Apulia region, the heel of the Italian geographic boot. Its name derives from the poisonous bite of a local ...