Tarantella del Gargano

I first saw Owain Phyfe at the Twig Renaissance Faire. I am the court photographer, and was assigned to photograph various performances. I had never heard of him before and as I began to video his first performance I knew immediately I was in the presence of an artist of rare quality. He is American with a Welsh heritage, and therefore speaks English and Welsh fluently. He spent a lot of time in Mexico and South America and I believe he knows Spanish pretty well. He also sings in archaic languages, Italian and an old form of German. He says he is a "singer of songs." I hope you will enjoy all his videos, which you can see on my YouTube channel.

Owain Phyfe (http://www.owainphyfe.com/) at the Olde World Renaissance Faire 2010 at Twig, Minnesota

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[thecoolerkeg]

the dialect is so bad man... like dont sing in italian if you cant say the words... or at least pronounce them phonetically correct.. im fluent in english and italian and the fact that hes just babbling gibberish mocking out italian words ruins the whole song.

[gbennett58]

If you leave a comment at Owain Phyfe's website, he will probably get it.

[Italianissimo86]

Hahaha forte st'americano, anche se si sente l'accento. Ma il solo fatto che uno straniero si metta a cantare una tarantella, e il 90 % del'italiani non sa cos'è una tarantella mi fa sentire triste :-(

[krautfranz]

I am italian, i came from Naples and I can say that Gargano is near Naples, not so near but is in the south Italy and I have to say that singing in this dialect is so hard even if for an italian or a napoletano as me! So he sings very well!

[ServitorSanctum7]

To those that don't know him; This man sings in Gaelic, French, Spanish, Welsh, Italian, Hungarian, and I believe Latin. That's just the ones I know of. If you could pronounce ALL of those correctly, I'd consider the negative responses. If you had nearly the following he did or were regarded as highly as he, I'd think about what you said. That being said, I have NO idea who you are, but this man is loved by many thousands of people.

[Bonaga666]

POMODORI POMODORI

[febiarmonici1977]

Haia!

[Aptmmmpjamdm]

@SevensoonS invece ti sbagli... Napoli: questa canzone risale all'epoca della dominazione napoletana in puglia... infatti la versione originale contiene alcune parole tipicamente napoletane, ma per il resto il merito dei pugliesi... da precisare che io sono calabrese... viva la taranta e la tarantella

[tecksballon]

i cannot understand the dialect, although i'm from Gargano, but melody is ok! you should just improve pronounce :D good guy!

[SantAmbrogio]

@thecoolerkeg at least he is resurrecting songs forgotten by italians themselves. his effort at pronouncing puglian dialect outweighs the fact that he doesn't completely succeed.

[alesslak]

@thecoolerkeg per essere un anglofono non se l'e' cavata neppure troppo male.. non puoi pretendere la perfezione in questi casi. Da togliergli il capello piuttosto per la volonta' di spargere un po' di quella cultura e musica italiana che rimane di solito di nicchia.

[adwolution]

@SevensoonS Il pezzo lo conosco abbastanza. Ho citato Napoli semplicemente per confermare le mie origini meridionali in modo da dar più peso al commento. Forse t'è sfuggito il senso delle mie parole ed il fatto che fosse una risposta al precendete commento di @thecoolerkeg

[SevensoonS]

@adwolution Guarda che le parole sono quelle vatti a informare, con Napoli non centra niente.