{:en}PRESS RELEASE (08/30/2017)
Thursday, August 31, a Loano, the calendar of summer events promoted by the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano, proposes a new evening of Occitan Folk Dance.
At 9 p.m., in Fortress Square, l’Balà Association on the shore of u mà will give rise to a evening of folk dances with Rinaldo Doro.
Musician and scholar of folk music, Rinaldo Doro, has a long musical career and a rigorous research path in Canavese traditions undertaken in 1978 alongside Amerigo Vigliermo and the Coro Bajolese.
His instruments of choice are the diatonic accordion and the hurdy-gurdy, although he also does not disdain “getting his hands on” the ’Epinette des Vosges,“ the bagpipe and anything that produces sound.
Rinaldo Doro after meeting with the “Coro Bajolese” and Amerigo Vigliermo joined several groups both as a founder (Ombra Gaja, Ariondassa, Esprit Follet) and as a collaborator (Refole’, Tre Martelli, Grande Orchestre des Alpes, Tsarrye, Teatro Regio di Torino).
He has given concerts, lectures and internships in Italy, Switzerland, France, Spain, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Britain, Finland, Ukraine and the U.S.A.
He has participated in numerous recordings, radio and TV programs.
He is currently a member-researcher of the C.E.C. (Canavese Ethnological Center) in Bajo Dora (TO) and contributes to the Center's ’sound archive with a collection of about a hundred musical instruments and more than thirty thousand scores, both printed and manuscript, concerning traditional Canavese music.
April 2014 saw the release of his first book ’Sonador da Coscrit e da Quintèt - “ (Ed. Atene del Canavese) concerning Popular Music and its protagonists between Canavese and Valle d'Aosta.{:}
