CONTRADROM with Maria Mazzotta & Festa Popolare at DROM Taberna

Celebrating Italy all night with a takeover, welcoming Maria Mazzotta & Festa Popolare 🎶🔥

Festa Popolare is a group of Italian-Canadian musicians bringing the traditional music of southern Italy to Toronto. Led by multi-instrumentalist Roberto DiPlacido, the project is the culmination of several years spent living between Canada and Italy, researching the diverse traditions of Sud Italia. On June 27, they will be bringing over two hundred years of the iconic songs of Naples to Drom Taberna.

Maria Mazzotta's visceral interpretation meets the electric sounds of Post-Rock, creating an original and profound blend. The title of the new album is Onde (Waves), an album in which Maria Mazzotta has chosen for the first time in her twenty-year career to express the outspoken and vital force of peasant tradition through contemporary instruments with a rural flavor to its essence.

Since 2020, the year her solo debut album Amoreamaro was published, she has covered thousands of kilometers non-stop performing in over 200 concerts in more than 25 countries across Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Through this traveling, she has gained an awareness of how she is able to push towards the true expression of her own experience of folk music with courage and freedom. It is a woman’s journey of traveling from one great European capital to another such as from Paris to Barcelona, all the way to some major world metropolises like Jakarta and Bogota, all the while presenting herself on stage accompanied by all her fragilities and strength in equal measure.

KITCHEN-WISE we're welcoming @contrada.to from College Street to make something truly dope happen 💥 — a Slavic Italian 🇮🇹 fusion because this is TORONTO!

🗓️ January 15
⏰ doors at 5PM
🎶 Music at 6PM & 830PM
📍DROM Taberna - 458 Queen Street W

Poster by Celeste Ganon

in co-production with Daniela Nardi

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