Di Madre In Figlia (From Mother to Daughter) will be appearing on Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 7 PM, as part of the UW World Series. I plan on seeing this feisty troupe from my motherland. Below is the promo for this group and they do have a video of their singing on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR2VR_Dslr8). I believe there is a documentary on these women -- Mondine - As a Mother to Daughter, but I wasn't successful in viewing it on YouTube.
Mondine di Novi (mohn-DEE-nuh di NOH-vee), an Italian female chorus from the Modena lowlands, teams up with Italian/Celtic folk band Fiamma Fumana (fee-AH-mah foo-MAH-nah) for an unforgettable concert experience. Beginning in the early 1900s, the "mondine" sang together as they weeded the rice fields of the Po Valley. Here an older generation of music-makers meets a younger in a celebration of survival and song.
Did you know? Some members of Mondine di Novi worked in the Italian resistance movement during World War II, smuggling messages to the partisans in their hair curlers, shopping bags, and the handle bars of their bicycles.
BRAVA!
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