Alessandra Belloni
with I GIULLARI DI PIAZZA present TARANTELLE E CANTI D'AMORE Saturday, September 13 at 7:30 pm Garfield, New Jersey Live in Chicago! Alessandra Belloni live on ABC TV www.abclocal.com Alessandra Belloni featured on CNN Worldbeatwww.youtube.com Alessandra Belloni "Tarantata" on National Geographic documentary, Spider Sex www.youtube.com YouTube Playlist: Tarantelle Canti D'Amore 10/30/09 at Symphony Space in New York 2009 http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=79FD7875439A4D1C The concert features music from the CDs released by SoundsTrue & Naxos chosen as best Italian CD of the year by the New York Times and the Los Angeles and from the show TARANTELLE E CANTI D'AMORE presented to a sold out audience at Symphony Space in October 2009. The ensemble includes : Alessandra Belloni - lead vocals, percussion ritual dance, artistic director John La Barbera - chitarra battente, classical guitar, mandolin music director Wilson Montuori - acoustic guitar, Susan Eberenz - flute The program also includes tarantella professional dancers: Francesca Silvano, Peter De Geronimo, Jillian Guinta, Danielle Hartman, Mark Mindek- stilt dancer This concert is a fiery "journey" through the South of Italy featuring also magic rituals, sensual mystical trance dances performed as ritual by the women of Southern Italy, haunting love songs, lullabies, processional chants and ritual drumming in honor of the Black Madonna, known as :Tammorriata, and more dances as well as original songs by Alessandra Belloni inspired by the rituals and rhythms of Brazil. The music comes from different regions of Italy, mainly Naples, Calabria, Sicily, Puglia and Sardegna, and it has been arranged with a very unique World Music Sound. The performance ends with the authentic Pizzzica Tarantata, the healing trance dance from Puglia used as an exorcism to cure the mythical bite of the tarantula, a mental disorder that afflicted mainly women, and which goes back to the ancient Greek rites of Dyonisus. At the end of our concert we invite the audience to dance the tarantella or “pizzica” in a celebration of life and good energy unique of the Italians using red ribbons in a circle. Pizzicarella (Village Scene) from tarantella Spider Dance http://youtu.be/mWYG6r4ClVE