San Rocco full video

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I just released the full video of the San Rocco festival in Aliquippa Pennsylvania. I will include links to the San Rocco Aliquippa Pennsylvania website. What a great fun celebration. I will be adding this to my yearly itinerary of pyrotechnic events. Special thanks to the San Rocco committee and Ron from Pyrotecnico for allowing full pyro access to the event. I can't wait until next year. Within the first hour of posting one of my subscribers from Italy linked in a similar dance. I will include it below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUq3byWnBFI
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The history of San Rocco Aliquippa Pennsylvania
http://sanrocco.org/history.php
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San Rocco Aliquippa web site.
http://sanrocco.org/san_rocco_schedule.php
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Sent to me from Italy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ras4iZQ2Ft8
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For our music fans.
The original version of "The Rapper" by "The Jaggerz"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5khPXufmQw
http://www.artinbase.com/slika/big/4030002/The+Jaggerz+featuringbillymaybraywiththeja.jpg

[PyroJoeNEPA]

That was awesome! What kind of good Italian foods did you get to sample while you were there?

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Joe nice to hear from you. Being you are Italian I know you would love this event. The part I missed in the video is starting Sunday at 8 AM they light four inch salutes in front of the church, then as the precession works it way up the street a technician light salutes off at each corner as San Rocco makes his way up the street. The technician told me as he stays ahead of the precession, he gets a police escort. If someone comes out to complain about the noise, they tell them to get back in their house. I have to get all this on video next year. This is old world pyrotechnics, I love it. The Aliquippa community embraces and protects it.

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In the video we hear my friend henry talk about the Tarantella Dance. She is bit by a spider.
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Courtship vs tarantism dances

The stately courtship tarantella danced by a couple or couples, short in duration, is graceful and elegant and features characteristic music. On the other hand, the supposedly curative or symptomatic tarantella was danced solo by a supposed victim of a "tarantula" bite; it was agitated in character, lasted for hours or even up to days, and featured characteristic music. However, other forms of the dance were and still are couple dances (not necessarily a couple of different sexes) usually either mimicking courtship or a sword fight. The confusion appears to arrive from the fact that the spiders, the condition, its sufferers ("tarantolati"), and the dances all have similar names to the city of Taranto.

The first dance originated in the Apulia region and spread next to all part of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. The Neapolitan tarantella is a courtship dance performed by couples whose "rhythms, melodies, gestures, and accompanying songs are quite distinct" featuring faster more cheerful music. Its origins may further lie in "a fifteenth-century fusion between the Spanish Fandango and the Moresque 'ballo di sfessartia'." The "magico-religious" tarantella is a solo dance performed supposedly to cure through perspiration the delirium and contortions attributed to the bite of a spider at harvest (summer) time. The dance was later applied as a supposed cure for the behavior of neurotic women (" 'Carnevaletto delle donne' ").[8]

The original legend tells that someone who had supposedly been bitten by the tarantula (or the Mediterranean black widow) spider had to dance to an upbeat tempo to sweat the poison out.

There are several traditional tarantella groups: "Cantori di Carpino", "Officina Zoé", "Uccio Aloisi gruppu", "Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino", "Selva Cupina", "I Tamburellisti di Torrepaduli".

The tarantella is most commonly played with a mandolin, a guitar, an accordion and tambourines. Flute, fiddle, trumpet and clarinet are also used.

[PyroManiacs]

Ill have to check that out sometime. Looks like fun.

The display looked to be 80% cakes by the video.

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I would guess they picked mostly cakes because of the audience being so close. Here is the full display.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjKunLUDifc

[PyroManiacs]

Cool, thanks.

[PyroJoeNEPA]

It is nice to see some of the culture & traditions of generations past being preserved. I remember when I was a young boy back in the 1950's my Grandparents celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary & danced the "Tarentella" together. Something I will never forget. [They, however, danced without fireworks attached to their bodies] LOL!

[mguerra]

That announcer kept implying the crowd were a bunch of unappreciative louts. He was really annoying! As a fan of all things Italian, I did like the music, very different from the typical, it was a cool ambience. Very nice show.

[PGH_Pyro]

now shooting 4" salutes in the morning and telling people to go back in the houses and shut up about the pyro noise is a concept I can embrace :)

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I agree a little with the comment on the announcers and the way he handled the audience. Sometimes when I post these types of video and people hear themselves then realize how they sound and correct it next time. I also noticed during the Baby Doll Dance this year the did the pyro on the dolls one side at a time, in the video from 2012 they did both sides at once. I would recommend they do both sides simultaneously . it adds to the intensity of the dance. I would love to get a Cobra module and attach it to the back of each dancer and run both dancers with the remote.
Here is the 2012 video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVF1y8hqhcM

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Here is a nice explanation of Tarantism , dance Tarantella.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eYlR6kJnG4
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