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 ...

A nationally celebrated ensemble is bringing new life to traditional Italian folk music — and they’re performing right here in Rochester later this month. Alla Boara, known for blending centuries-old ...

“Alla Boara” is the name of an Italian folk song sung by field workers. Translated into English, the name means “to the work,” and Alla Boara, the Italian-inspired Cleveland jazz band, has been doing ...

Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera served as musical director for this year’s La Notte della Taranta folk festival in Salento, Italy. Manzanera also performed at the event as part of an international ...

Cellist Denise Djokic has recorded a warm and wonderful CD called Folk Lore. Djokic's music is inspired by folk songs such as Tarantella, an Italian folk dance that inspired Stravinsky. Tom Manoff has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...