Concerts and performances
With our performances in all Italian regions and in some countries abroad we have tried to show the results of the research we carry out on many fields of the human knowledge as described on the webpage activities.
Since this is a non-profit organization, all our activities are either self-financed or subsidized by the concerts'
proceeds. We perform three types of concerts: those performed by the folk group, those performed by the medieval music group
and those performed during Christmas time which evoke the pipers who used to be rife in our valleys and in the rest
of the country according to various evidence.
In our concerts we play the musical instruments we have rediscovered and rebuilt; all our performances
take place in traditional costumes.
The music played by thefolk group is varied, ranging from the Cimbric and Venetian traditional music to that of the "royal tradition" which used to be played at the court of Kaiser Franz Joseph of Habsburg ( especially during summer time when he used to come and spend his holiday in our city and valleys).
Our concerts recreate the delightful atmospheres linked to our traditions and are suitable for balls in which dances can be performed: the manfrina, the giga, the polkas cavallina, the munecò, and the tzoty, the main dance of the Cimbric populations.
The medieval music group wears costumes which remind those of the ancient troubadours, of the Minnesänger ( closely linked to our history and culture), of ballad-singers and jesters.
We use instruments such as the hurdy-gurdy, kantele, reveille, curled horn, racola, flutes and various types of percussions; in some performances a few jugglers and fire-eaters joined us.
The performances by the Christmas music group are particularly suggestive with the members dressed up as shepherds or as farmers since the pipers' tradition is also a country folk tradition. This group has taken part in numerous Christmas festivals playing the "bagatelli" (bagpipes) and other instruments such as the accordion, the curled horn, the trombone, the Wagnerian trumpet and various types of flutes.
Besides cheering up the public with these delicate Christmas melodies, the players pronounce well-wishing blessings following a very ancient magic ritual to the benefit of all the people who give them something like a hot wine or a hot chocolate, or simply listen to them.
The bells attached to the feet are a very distinctive aspect of our costumes and have the function "to scare off devils" (as we say in our dialect "scaciar i diaoli") with their high-pitched sounds.
