OI DIPNOI
Nu-folk & old dance from Sicily.
Australian tour 2017.
Not to miss this “Tarantella Workshop” with Oi Dipnoi and Master Dancer Francesca Campione!
Friday 7 April, 5:00pm-6:00pm, Italian Cultural Institute, 233 Domain Road, South Yarra
FREE EVENT. Organized in collaboration with Co.As.It. – Museo Italiano
RSVP essential: bookings.iicmelbourne@esteri.it
The Oi Dipnoi will perform their latest show “Bastrika” on Thursday 6 April, 6.30pm at Co.As.It. – Museo Italiano, 199 Faraday Street, Carlton
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OI DIPNOI
Dipnoi are living fossils, an order of prehistoric fish that have vestiges of rudimentary lungs: during periods of drought, adapting to the environment, they take refuge in small, moist burrows and can breathe atmospheric oxygen.
The poetics developed by Oi Dipnoi trio were born out of the meeting between tradition and innovation: one enriches the other in a constant dialogue in which the assets of the musical culture of the island are given new value. A heritage inherited by Valerio Cairone, a multi-instrumentalist who collected the melodies of the region. The protagonists of this heritage were shepherds, farmers, carters – a universe that was well explored by famous writers in Sicily at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. Thus the creation of an original repertoire in which the themes are developed and sustained by the diatonic accordion, supported by a powerful rhythmic section with electric percussion or double bass by Mario Gulisano and Marco Carnemolla. The result is a new sound full of personality, thanks to a charming and light fusion with elements of jazz and progressive archaic folk.
The trio, formed in 2013, has performed successfully several times following their debut at important folk festivals in Italy and Europe.
Valerio Cairone (accordion, bagpipe)
Marco Carnemolla (bass, vocals)
Mario Gulisano (percussion, vocals)
Francesca Campione (dancer, teacher)
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