Sep17

Italian Heritage Month

Hofstra University, Hempstead Turnpike, Hempstead, NY

This concert is a fiery journey through the South of Italy featuring also magic rituals,  healing trancedances performed as ritual by the women of Southern Italy, haunting love songs,  lullabies, processionalchants and ritual drumming in honor of the Black Madonna, known as :Tammorriata, and the authentictarantella, Pizzica Tarantata used to cure the mythical bite of the tarantula. The music comes from differentregions of Italy, mainly Naples, Calabria, Sicily, Puglia . featuring Alessandra Belloni vocals, percussion, WilsonMontuori guitar, Mara Gerety, Violin, dancers Francesca Silvano and Peter de Geronimo.

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