Gran Canaria 2014
3^ Rassegna del Folklore Siciliano
4^ "Saperi e Sapori di.....MATAROCCO"- Festival Int. del Folklore
Mandorlo in Fiore 2012
from August 15 up to August 19 2018
I Picciotti di Matarò
represented Italy at the "XXIV International Folk Festival" which took
place in Pisek - CZECH REPUBLIC
National and International Awards
Recognized as group of national interest.
members of the Folk Group
I PICCIOTTI DI MATARÒ
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| | Francesco Di Bernardo (friscalettu (whistle)-soloist) |
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| | Michela Maltese (soloist) |
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| | Antony Culicchia (tambourine) |
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| | Christian Gabriele (tambourine) |
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| | Francesco Genna (accordions) |
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| | Ignazio Lombardo (accordions) |
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| | Ivan Gabriele (tambourine – marranzanu) |
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| | Leonardo Gancitano (bummulo – marranzanu) |
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| | Roberto Piccione Pipitone (accordions - friscalettu (whistle)) |
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| | Valentina Mangiaracina (guitar) |
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| | Vincenzo Piccione Pipitone (drum) |
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| | Vito Pipitone (accordions) |
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| | Emanuela Piccione Pipitone |
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The group is in the National Register of entities that collaborate with the Section
CIOFF® ITALIA
The Group
 The International
Folkl Group of the ancient Sicilian traditions "I Picciotti di Matarò"
is a non-profit folk and cultural association born during the Review of the Sicilian
Folklore combined with the Feast "SAPERI E Sapori di.…. MATAROCCO", of which they
have been the inventors and organizers. The band represents Italy in numerous International
Festivals always getting great consents and applauses.
"I Picciotti" are forty-one artists, divided
in choirists, ballet dancers and musicians, all joined by the same passion for the
Sicilian culture that not only joined
 for
practicing an experience matured through the years in other folklorist groups of
our territory, but above all to divulge the popular traditions of the Sicilian land
through songs, dances, musics, revived by the many coloured colours of the nineteenth-century
customes of the "Rich Burgisi".
The group brings ahead with passion and enthusiasm the
millennial traditions of our Sicily.
The repertoire of songs and dances of the association,
that derive from the works of several authors like Favara, Pitrè, Salomone, Marino
is taken care of by the same founders of the group. Our Chairman Massimo GabrieleAll
the songs of popular tradition reflect moments of country life made of love, joy
and hard work.
Among the most known Sicilian dances proposed by the Picciotti
can be cited the "Tarantella", moreover the marsalesis can recognize
a typical dance of the city: the "Jolla", the very particular "Ballo
del Chiodo" and the "Contradanza", dance based on
the French footstep that was danced during the nuptial parties, during which figurations,
commanded by the "foreman" are performed.
The Group is affiliated to the .
History and origins of the name "I PICCIOTTI DI MATARO'"
The folk group "i picciotti di Matarò"
takes the name after a little town leaned on a little hill posted behind the city
of MARSALA, that is called Matarocco. It's a cloud of thick little houses
tied together from a little tortuous street that matches with the old buildings.
Some houses are over three hundred years old.
Zone dense of history, it's known for the high density of landowners.
There is a plaza that is joint around a votive niche "Fiureddra" representing
the Madonna of Trapani.
Constructed around the early years of '800, the "Fiureddra"
is overlap by a majolica reproducing San Francesco di Paola, in memory of a wreck
failure of a resident of the place. Here many years ago was a well where a little
shepherd fell in and died.
 The family in his memory
wanted to construct this votive niche to make him forever woken from the Madonna.
From a mournful event, it's born a religion traditions, lasting from year to year
till today.
Every year on the 15th of august, feast of the Assumption here,
they used to make a "fuggegia" a bonfire, and the adults with sicilian
cart turned around and throw money on the ground and the children picking them up
and clap their hands in honor of the Madonna of Trapani with wakes of prayer and
songs. In Marsala there is a seasoning made of tomato, garlic, basil and oil named
matarocco. That's how the feast is born combined with the sicilian folklore festival
that the group "I picciotti di Matarò organizes since 2008.
About the origin of the Matarocco, the hypothesis are those that
in the period of eight hundred the Spanish domino prevailed, in fact there is a
city in Spain named Matarò.
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