Short Folk’s story in my area

The group “Pratola Folk” was founded in the summer of 1974. Putting pression on some of his musician friends, sceptical at the beginning, managed, in time, thanks to a patient and constant work of research and musical re-elaboration to present a vast repertory about love, work and fight songs of Irpinia.

Other components became members of the group successively. Pratola Folk group, affiliated to ARCI-UISP, thanks to the personal interest of Orlando Marano to the RAI’s headquarters of Napoli, recorded an LP “Voci dalle Terre del Sud” distributed by R.C.A. in 1977.

From 1974 to 1980 the group made a lot of shows during very important national and international events, both in the most important Italian cities and in foreign ones (Germany and Switzerland).

With the terrible earthquake in Irpinia (1980), the constant work of research and musical re-elaboration, proffered by the group Pratola Folk , failed because of the several professional busy in the rebuilding of public and private town planning of Irpinia’s villages. From 1980 to 1987 the group continued, in a reduced way, to perform in Italian squares and Irpinia’s ones, with new components too.

In 1987, some exponents of the group, with petty and childish explanations were able to involve other components who had decided to give up the group. You made several attempts, in time, to compose the group again.

In Autumn 2003, after a revival concert, made in the public park of Pratola Serra in September, the friends were successful in the enterprise and they compose the group again together with some young men, who apart from their musical talent, they believed firmly in the research and the continuation of folklore.Now the components of the group, together with the new arrivals, believe firmly in the undertaken work.