Curriculum

The Folk Group Ru Maccature has staged over 1.500 performances throughout Italy and internationally where it has represented Italy at important cultural festivals. The group has also appeared on national television on such programs as “Piccoli Fans” on Rai2, “La Domenica del Villaggio” on Net 4, the ceremony of the lighting of the “Lampada dei Comuni” in Assisi on Rai 1,”Mezzogiorno in Famiglia” on RAI 2. In addition, since 1991, the group has organized the yearly Folk Festival, an international review of folklore which has seen more than 100 groups participate over the years. More than half of these groups have come from all over Europe.
In the August of year 2004 the group Ru Maccature won the 50^ edizion of the world festival in Cerveny Kostelec (Ceka Republic). Has been the first time since the festival was born that one Italian group has won. The festival is one of the bigger folklore festivals of Europe. In the festival there was 22 group of all continents of the world and in the August of year 2013 take the second place in the same festival classificated first of the groups from abroad. In April of this year the group together with the folkloric organization Molise Folk, of which it is coordinator, won the first prize at the national review of Music, folkloric and ethnic songs held in Mormanno in Calabria and in September 2022 a special prize during the event “La prova dei cuochi” held in Tropea as part of the National Review “Italy and Regions”. On June 21st of this year he was selected and participated in the “European Music Festival” held in Rome at the Farnesina receiving recognition directly from the Minister of Foreign Affairs o. Antoni Taiani The Folk Group Ru Maccature is recognized by the Ministry of Heritage and Culture and Tourism as association of cultural interest and is component of the FITP – Italian Federation of Popular Traditions where hold prominent institutional roles.