SATURDAY JULY 23 – 9:00pmMEHANATA BULGARIAN BAR131 LUDLOW STREET - ADMISSION $ 10.00ALESSANDRA BELLONI - vocals, tambourines, frame drums,GIUSEPPE DE FALCO - vocals, guitarGYPSY JOE - accordion, vocals, tambourineVINNIE SCIALLA - percussion and drumsetMARA GERETY - violinAMARA - fire and belly danceCOME JOIN ALESSANDRA BELLONI TO CELEBRATE HER BIRTHDAY with our special concert at MEHANATA Bulgarian Bar!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, and the trance dance know as PIZZICA TARANTATA or the Spider Dance. Alessandra Belloni's original compositions honoring Yemanja and Oxun, Goddesses of Love and Waters, Xango, of the Afro- Brazilian Yoruba tradition.
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