LARISA, Greece

I WILL BECOME A BASIL

I’ll become the basil by your window,

by your window

and I will stay unmarried for your sake

for your sake.

The moon walks towards the door of my beloved

the moon walks around the garden of my love.

My curly king why   you withered

why did you withered

Who told you words for me and you left me

and you left me

he moon walks towards the door of my beloved

the moon walks around the garden of my love.

Come and bend over your window sneaking up on your mother,

sneaking up on your mother

The moon walks towards the door of my beloved

the moon walks around the garden of my love.

Milo mou kokkino - Μήλο μου κόκκινο - My red apple

METAMORPHOSES-Athens, Greece

My red apple, colored [like a] pomegranate
my red apple, colored [like a] pomegranate
Why did you make me sad?  

Why did you make me sad?

Lyrics

Milo mou kokkino - Μήλο μου κόκκινο - My red apple

Lyrics

I come and go, but I can’t find you
I come and go, but I can’t find you 

I find your door latched 

I find your door latched 

Light comes out through your windows 

Light comes out through your windows 

And I ask your door: “Where did your Lady go?” 

And I ask your door: “Where did your Lady go?” 

Milo mou kokkino - Μήλο μου κόκκινο - My red apple

"My Lady isn’t home, she has gone to the well 

My Lady isn’t home, she has gone to the well 

She’s gone there to drink some water and fill (her pot) 

She’s gone there to drink some water and fill (her pot)"

Lyrics

 Portopalo CP, Italy

Traditional Italian music is the ensemble of traditional music from the Italian peninsula, since due to the history of Italy, which for centuries was divided into several small states, there is no single typical common traditional music; therefore they reflect the geographical position in which they reside in southern Europe and in the center of the Mediterranean Sea: Arab, African, Celtic, Persian, Venetian, Latin Slavic influences

Sicilian music concerns the musical tradition of Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is in close correlation with the historical events and the dominations that have occurred over the centuries in Sicily. In recent decades, popular music groups and musicians have also been born who interpret new songs in the Sicilian language.

SICILIAN MUSIC DANCE: TARANTELLA

The Sicilian tarantella draws its origins from the Greco-Roman culture. The term tarantella derives from taranta, a word that indicated the tarantula insect, a poisonous spider. The ancients claim that people who were bitten by the poisonous spider danced the taranta. In the Middle Ages this frenetic rhythm of dance was considered a practice aimed at healing , a sort of exorcism with which the demons, which were represented by the poisonous spider, could be expelled. 

SICILIAN LULLABY

Avò and to do the vò

this joy of mine wants to sleep

and if he doesn't wnat to sleep

we have to tell dad.

We have to tell him and we have to tell him, as 

beautiful as my son no one has

no one has and no one has 

this beautiful child of my soul 

Dad went hunting

to shoot the bird

the little bird flew away

and this beautiful son has remained with me.

Bò, Bò,Bò, sleep son and do the vò.

SICILIAN LOVE SONGS: COCCIU D'AMURI

Look out, baby, and hear this song I sing it only to you, berry of love You make my blood boil in my veins 

If I don't see you, I feel like dying

Look out, beautiful, that you are the song

And I forget the pains before you

The pains are sweet If you give me peace

I always want to be next to you

I saw two stars in your eyes

That glistens in the middle of the hair

Strands of iron and sugar The face, a flag

Where the sun beats, the spring sun

To me, you are a Sican goddess

That when she laughs, the weather gets better

I'm going after you, flower of poetry

Which makes the whole world poetry

I'm going after you, flower of poetry

Which makes the whole world poetry

Sung by Tintoria

SICILIAN HOLIDAYS SONG: SUTTA UN PEDI

The topic talks about the birth of the Child Jesus, in a simple and easy to understand way. It is written in Sicilian dialect and the theme riflects a religion expressed with simplicity, but close to popular sentiment. The song is made up of four stanzas, interspersed with a refrain " Susi Pasturi nun dormiri chiù lu viri che natu lu Bamminu Gesù" which reminds the shepherds of the birth of the Child Jesus. Each verse is made up of quatrains in alternating rhyme. In the first three stanzas, the topic is inspired by three different plants: hazelnut, lemon and cherry which create as many rhymes on the birth of the Bambinell (Child Jesus). In the last verse, the protagonist is the Bambinello, with his few gold-colored hair.  

Chaves, Portugal