FRIDAY MAY 20 at 8:00pm CORAZON ART CENTER TOPANGA CA Alessandra Belloni presents:   HONORING THE SEA GODDESS, Presented to sold out audiences  at the New York Open Center, Cathedral of St . John the Divine, Venice , Lerici, Perc Fest and Salsomaggiore Italy. Featuring:    ALESSANDRA BELLONI: voice, tambourines, frame drums, ocean drum, ritual dance ANDREA NEHESI - ritual dance, percussion  GREG DORMANI  guitar, mandolin   The concert is inspired by two geographically distant but thematically parallel traditions. Southern Italian and Brazilian purification rites and procession performed in the summer to honor the archetypical sea goddess. In Brazil she comes from the West African Yoruba culture and is called Yemanja , in Italy she is called the Black Madonna of the Sea (once called Aphrodite) . Internationally renowned singer, percussionist, dancer and REMO Artist Alessandra Belloni will be playing the ocean drum, recreating the sound of the waves of the ocean , her Yemanja drum made by Remo that combines the sound of the water with the drum, her line of Southern Italian tambourines and frame drums accompanied by a small ensemble of women percussionists, dressed in white and blue to honor the sea. They recreate rituals with songs, chanting and dancing, drumming and offerings of flowers to the images of Yemanja and the Black Madonna. The music played will include fisherman;'s songs, and love laments, from Southern Italy and Brazil, as  original songs written by Alessandra Belloni inspired by her trips to Hawaii and Brazil written in honor of Yemanja. This is unique passionate show  with great music and joyous ritual that invokes the healing power of primordial waters, was presented in Italy (Venice, Salsomaggiore Thermal resort, PERC FEST,  New York OPEN CENTER, Los Angeles Italian Culural Institute)  Trum   Alessandra Belloni’s links to TV appearances:Alessandra Belloni Live Appearance on ABC-TV7 Chicago http://youtu.be/3J9ZlzKLzPw Alessandra Belloni featured on CNN Worldbeat http://youtu.be/IkOqBrpcB9Q Alessandra Belloni "Spider Sex documentary " on National Geographichttp://youtu.be/vp8dE3jJnq0 Alessandra Belloni on Brazilian Globo TV July, 2012 http://youtu.be/jwX0PNwZjKM Don Hackman, writing in the Los Angeles Times, found that "Alessandra Belloni and "Tarantata: Dance of the Ancient Spider" is a revelation, utterly fascinating." Drum Magazine noted that "Italian-born virtuoso Alessandra Belloni is established as a unique phenomenon, not just a percussionist, but also an actress, lecturer, entertainer, and healer." Jon Pareles of The New York Times, reviewing an I Giullari di Piazza show, remarked that "Ms. Belloni sang in an exultant voice. The songs blazed with an age-old momentum."   SOLO CONCERT AT MOUNT SHASTA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKbmO2c20fo

FROM WOMAJAZZ FESTIVAL IN ITALY DUGHTERS OF CYBELE Tambourine Solo http://youtu.be/-h2pyzZBUBM Cuncti Simus' Requiem http://youtu.be/pdoMPzTVEKQ

A Sereja  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ze4XlKh7J8&feature=share&list=PL7DBD7B6782604E59