Giuseppe Di Bella (Sicily)

Giuseppe Di Bella was born in Enna, in the center of Sicily. Singer-songwriter, performer, poet, guitarist, he has his roots in a Mediterranean style that from Portuguese meets Portuguese fado, the songwriting and popular song of South America. From the influence of Dulce Pontes and Pedro Aznar, the composition of Victor Jara, Amalia Rodrigues, Cuchi […]

Sicily Folk Orchestra (Sicily)

Sicily Folk Orchestra (SFO) comprises of ten permanent musicians plus guest vocalists. The focus is on Sicily, its rhythms and its songs. Fresh musical arrangements seek to include the sounds of traditional instruments such as the bagpipes, Jew’s harp, tambourine, mandolin, accordion, and the Sicilian friscalettu; combined with and enhanced by more modern sounds like […]

Miramundo (Brazil/Spain/Italy)

The Carioca-Japanese-Portuguese-Italian songwriter, Luiz Murá, left Brazil seeking for the roots and connections of Brazilian music around the world. It was in Barcelona, a Mediterranean city in the middle of the planet, that he found the perfect environment to put at test all his heritage: Moroccan gimbris, Italian singers, Flamenco dancers, Brazilian sambistas, Senegalese djembes, […]

Lóca (Hungary)

The folk band “Lóca” was founded in 2010 in Kecskemét, Hungary. The group plays Hungarian folk songs and offers concerts mainly for children and for families. They released their debut album this year which contains their own versions of popular Hungarian children songs and folk songs. The members of the Catania based folk group Oi […]

Saray Illuminado (Australia/Bosnia/Greece)

Saray Iluminado is performing as a trio, deriving from Melbourne-based band SARAY Iluminado that specialises in Sevdah from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Sephardic Jewish Music from the Balkans. Among Australian audiences, this ensemble is becoming known for its unique performances that straddle borders of music and story-telling. The European instalment is an all-female trio with each […]

Himmerland (Denmark/Ghana/Sweden)

This is a band of very experienced musicians composing and performing original music from Denmark and beyond. They met while recording the album, “Himmerlandsmelodier”, a project created by the founder of this band, composer and saxophone player Eskil Romme.After a tour to the Faroe Island in 2010, they decided to expand the concept, and they […]

Harundo (Sicily/Bulgaria)

Sicilian Progressive Folk The musical project of the Catania band Harundo was born from an idea by bassist Giampiero Cannata, with the aim of revisiting the different traditional music of the Mediterranean and North-Eastern Europe, including them in a wider interaction project with the most varied musical genres , thus giving life to a vast […]

Ermanno Panta & Banda Zeitun (Spain/Italy)

Zeitun, transforms Mediterranean soundscapes into jazz.The meeting of Ermanno Panta (vocals, flute, tenor sax), Sergi Gómez (flamenco guitar), Daniel Abad (double bass) and Luati González (drums), all four of them jazz musicians coming from Sicily, Catalonia and Andalusia, has spontaneously generated a unique sound: inspiring, warm and deeply original. Banda Zeitun’s wide range of influences […]

Zomo Tanit (Chile/Italy)

From Italy to Chile … Zomo Tanit “Roots in the sea”The sea has no borders, it is a bridge between worlds.In this sea, three women of different origins met and with their feminine strength they stop a mestizo and migrant music, that unites the south of Italy with South America video THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 h […]

I Beddi (Sicily)

In 2010 i Beddi, musicians of Sicily, win the 11th edition of the Festival of the New Sicilian Song – Trinacria Award – organized by the staff of Antenna Sicilia with the Tarantella blues track. Tarantella Blues is the central piece of the second CD: Siciliazero, which the band premiered on July 9th 2010 in […]