The “Akragas Folk Dance Group” was founded by a group of young people, keen of popular traditions, with the mandate of researching, spreading and staging, the folkloristic, historic and cultural traditions of the Sicilian people.
The costumes worn by the group members represent a well defined historical period, that is the end of the nineteenth century.
The musical instruments, the songs, the dances and the stagings instead embrace a greater historical period which includes: the Greek, Roman, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish and Norman dominations of the Island, all of which have molded, throughout the centuries, Sicily.
Alan Sorrenti (Naples, 9 December 1950) is an Italian singer-songwriter.
After publishing the progressive rehearsals of Aria (1972) and Come un vecchio incensiere all’alba di un villaggio deserto (1973), which earned him critical acclaim, Sorrenti became famous in Italy thanks to the song Figli delle stelle (1977), taken from the album of the same name. The album remained in the Italian top ten for sixteen consecutive weeks and was the eighth best-selling single of 1978.
