Spend enough time in local music and the six degrees of separation that applies to most people on the planet seems to dissolve completely. Take the eclectic Denver underground band Tarantella, named ...

Night of the Taranta, an Italian folk music festival akin to Woodstock, celebrates a musical tradition that dates to antiquity. The Folk Music Festival That Started With A Spider Bite The tarantella ...

Szymanowski composed his Nocturne and Tarantella Op. 28 in Józef Jaroszyński's manor in Zarudzie and in Ryżawka, the estate of August Iwański, his friend to whom he dedicated the work. Written in ...

Today's Beautiful Music is a tantalizing tarantella performed by L'Arpeggiata. The early music group is led by Austrian harpist and orchestra conductor Christina Pluhar. They give this Neapolitan ...

Festa Popolare is a group of Italian-Canadian musicians bringing the traditional music of southern Italy to Toronto. Led by multi-instrumentalist Roberto DiPlacido, the project is the culmination of ...

The tarantella is a lively folk dance and musical style originating in southern Italy's Apulia region, the heel of the Italian geographic boot. Its name derives from the poisonous bite of a local ...