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19th March : Father's Day

During the period of March, we have carnival festivals. We will upload songs and dances related to these themes.

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Our version of your spring dance:

 

In the south of Italy the  Carnival time begins at the end of Christmas and finishes on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday.Once upon a time, during this time people were used in the night to put on masks and go door to door asking the permission to enter in the houses singing traditional songs like this one at the sound of the cupë cupë. They asked hosts to get up and open the door and to give them traditional food of winter time : dried sausages  and salami   or blood cake , a special cake made with pork blood mixed with bread, coffee, chocolate and other ingredients. At that time you could find that food in each house because each family used to kill a big pig to have food for the winter.Nowadays only the children in fancy dress go door to door playing the cupë cupë and singing these songs, but they ask and receive only sweets, cakes and money. The following song is one of our traditional carnival songs and is in our local dialect.

A  "cupe-cupe"( a traditional instrument that usually accompany all the Carnival song)