Alla Boara wants to preserve Italy's traditional music. The Cleveland-based group is traveling around the country, offering a modern arrangement of some near-extinct folk songs. It recently added a ...

Newpoli, a band Songlines says grabs “southern Italian traditional music by the neck and recasts it in a dramatic style,” will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12, in the Avalon Theatre’s Stoltz ...

When Italian emigres Francesco and Giuseppina DeSalvo Sciortino and Luigi and Mariacivita Scarpalino Minerella made their way to the New World in the early 1900s, they could not have envisioned that ...

As co-music director for the Boston-based folk group Newpoli, Carmen Marsico is often confronted with misconceptions about traditional Italian music. "People think folk music from Italy is made up of ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- "La Befana," aka the gift-bearing Italian witch, sweeps up on Staten Island, Jan. 10 at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden. Children ages 3 and up can make crafts, ...

For the 21st year, thousands of visitors came to Little Italy to experience San Diego’s annual Italian festival, eating their way through authentic Italian classic dishes, moving to traditional ...

When Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi began considering what songs to perform at the many home livestreams they played during the early days of 2020 lockdown, they started coming up with songs ...