Vancouver Folk Music Festival

July 14 to 16, 2023

Kalàscima featuring Andrea Ramolo | Italy & ON

Kalàscima is a sextet of old friends from Puglia in southern Italy. Using the metaphor of the boot, Puglia is the heel. The region is famous for the tarantella and pizzica – both dances inspired by the bite of a wolf spider –both with origins in Salento, where the band is from.

Using a buffet of traditional and contemporary instruments, Kalàscima purveys a range of traditionally-based music with a futuristic twist, much of it used for dances. They have recorded and toured for well over a decade, blazing new trails for an old tradition.

Andrea Romolo is a Toronto artist of Italian heritage who is both a singer-songwriter and interpreter of North American and Italian compositions. She has an enormous breadth of musical vision.

Individually, both the band and Andrea have won growing audiences at home and abroad. Together they are the beginning of a beautiful friendship, as the phrase goes. This is a double debut of two great artists and a new style of music for Vancouver audiences.