Rosa Tatuata Returns to the Goddard Riverside’s Bernie Wohl Center (647 Columbus Avenue at West 91st Street - New York, NY 10025) April 6th, 2018 from 8:00pm - 10:30pm. $20. advanced sales at Eventbrite. $25 at the door. Rosa Tatuata present the 4th Annual La Primavera Vinni!/ Spring Has Come - Rosa Tatuata’s Sicilian & Southern Italian Dance Party to welcome spring.

Each year, just as Persephone returns to the Land of the Living, bringing with her warm weather and sunshine, Rosa Tatuata, ( Michela Musolino, vocals, tamburo; tamburello; Phil Passantino, guitar; accordion; Charlie Rutan; zampogna; ciaramedda; flute; JP Pannettieri, tamburello; marranzanu; saz; mandolino) perform the joyous, raucous, and passionate music of Sicily and Southern Italy to welcome her back and usher in Spring! Wherever they take their celebration becomes a piazza in Sicily where the audience can dance to the Folk and Roots music of Sicily and Southern Italy and even learn some dance steps while they celebrate.

About Rosa Tatuata: 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), 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.

-Rosa Tatuata’s instrumentation: vocals; guitar; organetto; accordion; saz; mandolin; ciaramedda; zampogna; frischialettu; flute; clarinet; marranzano; tamburello; tamburo; &lira calabrese.

-Video from Rosa Tatuata’s recent 3rd Annual La Primavera Vinni in NYC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1mXcY2U_E

-Promo Video, ‘A Virrinedda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnSOXkpFIYI