Alla Boara wants to preserve Italy's traditional music. The Cleveland-based group is traveling around the country, offering a modern arrangement of some near-extinct folk songs. It recently added a ...

As co-music director for the Boston-based folk group Newpoli, Carmen Marsico is often confronted with misconceptions about traditional Italian music. "People think folk music from Italy is made up of ...

When Italian emigres Francesco and Giuseppina DeSalvo Sciortino and Luigi and Mariacivita Scarpalino Minerella made their way to the New World in the early 1900s, they could not have envisioned that ...