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PRESS RELEASE (12/27/2013)
Saturday, December 28 and Sunday, December 29, Loano welcomes the second edition of “Tales of Winter - Dances and Music from Europe.”. The initiative, promoted by the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports and organized by the’Society of the Curious Association with the cooperation of the Attimo Civic School of Dance headed by Lorella Brondo and the’Bala Association on the shore of u ma, as part of the ninth City of Loano National Award for Italian Traditional Music, will weave internships and concerts in the square.
Kicking off the two-day event of folk music and dance will be, Saturday, December 28, from the 14.30 at 16.30, in the Kursaal Palace, the free workshop on approaching the “Pizzica Pizzica”, held by Apulian singer, tambourine player, dancer and researcher Anna Cinzia Villani. The pizzica-pizzica is certainly the best known aspect of the Salento tradition, and Anna Cinzia Villani will teach the basic steps of this dance during the internship.
At 17.30, in Italy Square, Piedmontese and French folk music will meet Apulian folk music. It will be the musical group Stygiens to revisit the Occitan-French-Breton bal-folk repertoire under the influence of contemporary styles and arrangements. The basis of the repertoire is a strong awareness of the themes and rhythms of Piedmontese and French polar music, internalized through very important musical collaborations with international folk revival protagonists such as Silvio Peron, Patrick Bouffard, the Boniface famigIy, and active participation in historical ensembles such as Tre Martelli and Grand Orchestre des Alpes.
The lineup includes the brothers from Cuneo Simone e Nicholas Bottasso, organ and violin respectively, Paolo Dall'Ara to bagpipes, flutes and woodwinds and finally Francis Motta on guitar.
At 18.30, the following will take the stage Anna Cinzia Villani, accompanied by Macuran Orchestra.
Considered one of Salento's most representative female voices, Anna Cinzia Villani is also an esteemed musician and researcher, with a long musical journey behind her. Villani will appear with an acoustic ensemble with which she will perform pizziche pizziche and songs from her second solo album “Fimmana, mare e focu!” On stage with her (voice and tambourine) will be. Annamaria Bagorda (diatonic accordion), Attilio Turrisi (classical and battente guitar), Roberto Chiga (drums and percussion).
Domenica Dec. 29, The protagonist of the approach workshop will be dance The Sevillanas. At 14.30, at Kursaal Palace, Scarlett Cicero will teach the basic steps of those which are probably the most popular Andalusian folkloric event. Couple dance (man-woman or woman-woman) is composed of four short dances each corresponding to a copla (sung poetic text) and a choreography.
At 17.30, in Italy Square, the dancer Scarlett Cicero accompanied by the training Encuentro Mediterraneo will present a selection of choreography inspired by to the wide variety of styles that reflect both the different themes of the cante and the Sevillanas' ways of playing. At 18.00, music and dances will lead the audience into the atmosphere of the very rich d'òc tradition with Great Occitan Orchestra headed by Sergio Berardo.
Students and teachers of Occitan music courses coordinated by the’Lou Dalfin Association will give life to a great concert based on a central body of accordions and hurdy-gurdies, joined by bass, drums, transverse flute, clarinets, chromatic accordions, and harp in a unique ensemble.
The music project brings together students from courses taught in the valleys of Cuneo and Liguria by Simonetta Baudino, Chiara Cesano, Manuel Ghibaudo e Sergio Berardo, who oversaw coordination and direction.
The concert will feature a repertoire of songs from the Occitan tradition of the valleys and transalpine Occitania, as well as new creations.{:}
