TARANTATA: Southern Italian Gypsy Music & Brazilian rhythms
Mehanata Bulgarian Bar, 113 Ludlow (btw Rivington & Delancey) , NY
ALESSANDRA BELLONI - vocals, southern Italian tambourines, ritual dance Wilson Montuori - electric and acoustic guitars, Giuseppe De Falco: vocals, guitar, Jessica Valiente: flutes, Rick Faulkner : bass guest drummer: Sergio Bellotti. This fiery "percussive journey" through the South of Italy and crossing to Brazil will explore through songs, dance and rhythm, magic rituals, tarantellas used as music therapy to cure the mythical bite of the tarantula , healing chants and ritual drumming in honor of the Black Madonna, lullabies, love ballads, work chants and protest song. Alessandra Belloni's original compositions honoring Yemanja and Oxun, Goddesses of Love and Waters, Xango, of the Afro- Brazilian Yoruba tradition