Rosa Tatuata continues on their 2018 Summer New England Concert Tour with a stop in New Bedford, MA at the Fishing Heritage Center on August 18th at 7pm. The band will be presenting an evening of the traditional maritime music of Sicily. Rosa Tatuata is musicians Michela Musolino, Phil Passantino, Charlie Rutan and Jeff Panettieri and they have as much fun making Sicilian music as their audiences do listening to them. Rosa Tatuata will have audiences singing along to the sea songs our ancestors sang in their day to day lives — as they worked and lived ever connected to the sea.

Said Michela Musolino about Sicilian folk music, “These songs were traditionally expressions of community and we hope to give our audiences that experience: of being a part of something - of a sense of celebrating as a community.”

August 18, 2018 7:00pm-8:30pm

New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center

38 Bethel St.

New Bedford, MA 02740

http://fishingheritagecenter.org/

Purchase tickets at the door or at this link: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3380727

Love of Sicilian and Southern Italian Roots Music is what drives ROSA TATUATA to passionately interpret the traditions and melodies of their ancestors. Just as their name comes from Tennessee Williams’ beloved play about the happy, raucous collision of immigrant and American cultures; likewise ROSA TATUATA’s performance relates that incredible commingling to their beloved audience through song!

Fueled by their research into traditional instruments like the tamburo ( Sicilian frame drum), organetto, marranzano ( jaw’s harp) and zampogna ( Southern -Italian bagpipes) and lira Calabrese, ROSA TATUATA introduces traditional songs into different musical contexts that rhythmically mirror the commingling of Old & New World. With an enchanting mix of ballads and dance tunes, ROSA TATUATA will take your imagination to sunbathed Southern Italy and the clear, crystal-blue waters surrounding Sicily. See Michela Musolino, Phil Passantino, Charlie Rutan and Jeffrey Panettieri as ROSA TATUATA.