Join this event for a richly layered evening of Arbereshe music, legacy and explorations of Albanian cultural identity and heritage with Nicola Scaldaferri.

Promoted and presented by the Albanian Institute, the program honors the tradition of epic singing, drawing on Scaldaferri’s extensive fieldwork across the Albanian lands, including g the urban songs in Shkoder and Korca, the region of Rugova, Kosova at the border with Montenegro, home to some of the most celebrated cultural traditions, and his work with Isa Elezi-Lekgjekaj, offering an unparalleled account of the nature of oral-traditional epic songs and the practices of the singers who composed them.

It will also explore the Old Arbereshe Diaspora through the collection of Giuseppe Chiaffitella, which was part of a massive flux of migration, along with Italians, towards New York and the American continent in the early 19th century.

The program will also feature a special live Karramunxa performance, a Bagpipe used traditionally in the Arbereshe villages, followed by a reception.

Thursday, November 17 at 6 PM (show starts at 6:30 pm)

58 Park Avenue, New York City. (Tickets HERE)