Fiamma Fumana

The next stage of folk music

by James M. Manheim

posted 4/1/2005

Is Fiamma Fumana the first folk group to specify beats per minute in the track listing on its album? Or the first electronic outfit to feature bagpipes? You can decide for yourself when these young Italians — three women and one man — come to the Ark on Monday, April 11. The exciting thing is that their music really raises the question.

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