Folk It!
thu 10 nov 2016 22:00 hrs
Folk magazine about past and present, from minstrels to freakfolk. Today: a special on the Italian Tarantella.
The name tarantella is derived from ‘Tarente’, a village in the south of Italy, or from ‘tarantula’, a kind of spider. The story goes that Italian women had an excuse to dance this dance, when they told their husbands they had been bitten by this spider.
Tarantellas are still a source of inspiration for various festivals and for a lot of bands, who work diligently at arranging and composing tarantellas, whether or not combined with other music styles and played on different musical instruments than the traditional ones tarantellas are usually played on.
In this broadcast you will hear tarantellas and the pizzicas related to them, as well as blues, balkan wind players, kora music from Mali and North African music.
