Musicians

Filippo Renna, percussionist, singer and songwriter, has developed the passion for folk music since the age of six, fascinated by the pressing rhythms of Salento where he's grown up. After the experience in local folk groups (Terre Neure, Ramasuje) he follows the desire to renew the musical tradition, arranging and writing songs which recall the old habits of the country people, known through the memories of his grandparents.

When he moved to Pavia to attend the university he joined the Terra del Sole folk group, with which he has taken part in various international folk festivals.

The harmony with some musicians of the group led him to set up a new project, the Domo Emigrantes, with the purpose to spread folk music by working out traditional songs.

Stefano Torre, singer and polyinstrumentalist, has inherited from his family the musical traditions of Sicily, his native land, and the passion for the folk music of all the world.

During the years he has deepened the study of different folk instruments such as guitar, mandolin, Cretan lute, charango, Sicilian friscalettu, bagpipe and frame drums. He's a teacher of Classic Guitar and of Folk instruments at Musicarte school in Lodi.

In 1998 Stefano started his concert activity performing in squares and theatres all over Europe, and in 2010 also in the USA. At present he belongs to various ensembles (Domo Emigrantes, Terra del Sole folk group, Salinas World Music, Khaossia) and cooperates with many musicians on folk music projects.

Luca Consolandi, accordionist, organist and composer from Lodi, after academic studies of organ becomes fond of accordion and contributes to the foundation of the Terra del Sole folk group. He has played in various instrumental ensembles, facing many different kinds of music (from Gregorian chant to hard rock, through classical and folk music) and performing in a number of concerts and international folk festivals. He has recorded an album with the Festin'Burg rock group, writing all the lyrics, music and arrangements; the passion and the experience in the field of
popular music have then led him to join the Domo Emigrantes project and the Young Mediterranean Ensemble, which combines the ethnic traditions with a modern musical language.