ITTIRI Folk Festival – Italy
The ITTIRI Folk Festival can invite: 7 National groups 3 International groups 3 Intercontinental groups Folk Dance, folk-Music, and Folk Singing Exhibitions with folk art and crafts. Traditional cooking. Dates next years: 2024: 18 July until 24 July 2025: 17 July until 23 July
NORBENSIS festival “il folklore per la pace dei popoli”, Italy
National groups: 4International groups:: 6Minimum ages participants: 14No recorded music!Maximum participants in a group: 30Traditional Folk ArtTraditional Folk MusicTraditional Folk SingingTraditional food preparing
Folk Group A’ Spiga Rossa
Folk Group A BRIEF HISTORY: The Folkloric association was born in Petina (SA) back in the 1970 with the name “Innesto”, then called “’A Spiga Rossa”, because of the traditional use of cornhusking. Our dances reprise everyday life scenes, they talk about unrequited love and describe convivial moments. Other dances reprise ancient uses, like the […]
65th International Folklore Festival (CARNIVAL OF CASTROVILLARI) – Italy
Brief description: Festival CARNIVAL OF CASTROVILLARI The origins of the Carnival of Castrovillari date back to 1635 when the theatrical farce of the Organtino was staged in front of the city’s university on the occasion of the Carnassial rites. The first event designed by Pro Loco is dated 1959, when, thanks to the intuition of […]
Festival International de Folklore de MARINARO – Termoli Italy
A Shcaffètte was born in Termoli in 1977 to collect, pass on and not forget the history of the city of Termoli and its people, discover on our website who we are and what we have done in recent years. The International Folklore Festival is now in its 37th edition, interrupted only by force majeure […]
18° Raduno Folkloristico Internazionale o International Folk di Galliate (NO)
Short Description: Saturday, July 1, 2023 will be celebrated the 52nd anniversary of the group and the 35th of the Gatherings. The Festival will take place from Wednesday, July 05 to Sunday, July 9 with the participation of groups from 3 Continents: New Zealand (Maori Group), Argentina (South American Dance Ballet), Scotland (Scottish Bagpipes), Greece […]
IOV Italy partner of the “Scasada del Zenerù” in Ardesio (Italy)
Every year, on January 31, in Ardesio, in the upper Seriana Valley, in Northern Italy, winter is “chased away” with the “Scasada del Zenerù”, an important and well-established tradition of the town, a much-attended and awaited ritual. A symbolic date on January 31, an appointment considered in antiquity to be the hinge between winter and […]
IOV Italia: history of a National General Assembly
The National General Assembly of the Italian Section of IOV WORLD (International Organization of Folk Art) was held on the 19th of November 2021 in Villa d’Almè, near Bergamo. The associates were welcomed in the extraordinary council chamber of the municipality, kindly granted by the Municipal Administration, always close to the promotion of traditional local, […]
Luigi Sara – hairstyles and hairpins
Since when I was I child I’ve been intrigued by the Sperada/Raggiera history, a very elaborated ornament, worn by women in Brianza and considered also as “Head Silver”, its uses and multiple stories. My research began in the early 90, when I retired, and when I try to seek the origins from storiers told from […]
Gruppo Folkloristico Miromagnum
Il “Gruppo Folkloristico Miromagnum” nasce e si costituisce in un paesino di montagna, alle porte della regione Calabria, nel sud Italia, negli anni 1980/1981, precisamente a Mormanno (CS),nel cuore del Parco Nazionale del Pollino, animato da forti intenzioni di preservare l’immenso bagaglio di tradizioni, che caratterizzano l’amato luogo d’origine. Viene portato a battesimo con il […]
