SOUTH ITALIAN GYPSY MUSIC, TRANCE DANCE & BRAZILIAN RHYTHMS & CHANTS
SATURDAY APRIL14 – 9:00pm MEHANATA BULGARIAN BAR 131 LUDLOW STREET - ADMISSION $ 10.00 ALESSANDRA BELLONI –vocals, tambourines, frame drums, JOE DENINZON Electric violin, WILSON MONTUORI – Electric guitar GIUSEPPE DE FALCO - vocals VINNIE SCIALLA : drumset, percussion DANCERS: PETER DE GERONIMO & FRANCESCA SILVANO 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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