World Music Festival Bratislava has announced the lineup for its 11th edition, set for Sept. 17-20, 2026. The four-day program will feature artists from Armenia,…
World Music Festival Bratislava Announces 2026 Lineup
Tag: Italy
Italian Accordionist Alessandro D’Alessandro
Alessandro D’Alessandro was born in Coreno Ausonio, a small town in southern Lazio. He grew up playing the organetto, a traditional Italian diatonic button accordion.…
Multifaceted Sicilian Songwriter Luisa Briguglio
Sicilian singer, songwriter, and guitarist, Luisa Briguglio, was born in Messina. She has led the southern Italian roots music ensemble PopulAlma since 2017. The ensemble…
Blues on a Saint’s Wavelength: Fabrizio Piepoli Channels St. Nicholas in a Mediterranean Hymn
Italian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Fabrizio Piepoli has released a new single, “Sanda Necole Blues”, produced by Zero Nove Nove with digital distribution via Believe. The…
Roberta Gulisano’s A Ccu Apparteni Reclaims the Music of the Uprooted
Roberta Gulisano – A ccu apparteni (Mhodí Music Company, 2024) At first listen, A Ccu Apparteni by Roberta Gulisano feels like a dispatch from a…
Spinning Voices: Ra di Spina Weaves Polyphony into Southern Italian Tradition
(headline image: Ra di Spina, Alexsandra Ida Mauro and Laura Cuomo) Ra di Spina is a musical project founded by the talented singer and ethnomusicologist…
Accordionist and Italian Folk Innovator Giuliano Gabriele
Giuliano Gabriele is an Italian-French songwriter, singer, and accordionist, born on February 18, 1985, in Sora, Italy. His musical journey began at the age of…
Italian Multi-Instrumentalist Luca Bassanese
Ecologist and independent musician Luca Bassanese regularly fills public spaces and concert halls around Europe with his cocktail of poetry, love stories infused with Italian…
Artist Profiles: Suonno d’Ajere
Three passionate Italian musicians, born and raised in the city of Naples, came together to prove that the tradition of Neapolitan songwriting (Canzone Classica Napoletana)…
Artist Profiles: Kalàscima
Italian band Kalàscima includes six friends from the deep Salento in southern Italy. They are one of the most innovative bands in the Italian world…