by Teresa Alessandro

La musica italiana is a powerful art that brings people together. It will never cost you a dime in overweight luggage fees to take home. It will transport you back to a memory, a place, or a time. No matter where Italians have emigrated, music has always invoked feelings: of home, of summer, of love for their country, even of love for or one another. To this day, many Italian Americans maintain ties to their roots through traditional folk music that brings them back to the small towns and villages they left behind.

For musician, performing artist, and teacher Alessandra Belloni, preserving the tribal and ethnic rhythms of southern Italy is a passion. Alessandra is a master of time travel. Using traditional instruments like the Remo tambourine, her performances of Italian folk music transport listeners back in time to the era before Italian unification.

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano