03 fridays August 2007 to Mottola (TA) Regional Festival “Re Pambanelle”
04 saturdays Agosto 2007 to Pontelandolfo (BN) International Festival of the Folklore “Re Pambanelle”
Sunday 05 Agosto 2007 to VIGGIANO (PZ) International Festival of the Folklore “Re Pambanelle”
11 saturdays Agosto 2007 Pagliara (BN) “IBasani " the Night Bianca “The Basani”
16 thursdays Agosto 2007 until 20 Agosto 2007 in Hungary to Karaz (Budapest) International Festival of the Folklore “Re Pambanelle”
23 thursdays Agosto Binetto (BA) Patronali Festivities Fokloristico Show “Re Pambanelle”

Singing and Dancing’s Popular Group of Bitonto “Re Pambanelle” (that in our dialect means the first leaflets that appear on the grapevine) is a cultural association without any purpose of profit. Born in 1991 with the aim of recovering the huge patrimony of songs and dances of our earth.
This long and complex work has started from the “oral tales of our elderly”, then the material has been organized to complete the songs and dances that today compose our repertoire.
Currently the group is made up of 40 members; 30 of them wear original clothes and sing, play instruments and dance.
The costumes are the original reproduction of the suits that the average middle class used to wear during the18th and 19th century.
The music instruments are those used to celebrate the end of a day-work in the fields or the weddings. The guitar, the accordion and tambourines, the flute, the violin of poor people and many others, are all instruments played on stage by the various components of the group. The repertoire of the group is made up of popular songs and dances from Bitonto and from Puglia: Quadriglia, Polka, Mazurka, Tarantelle, Pizzica Pizzica, etc…
Among the main festivals to which the group took part we can remember:



1994: hearing from the Pope, City of Vatican
1997: inauguration “XIII Playes of the Mediterranean” Bari Stadio St. Nicola
2000: the artisans jubilee, City of Vatican
2000: “The wine’s party”, Balaton Boglari- Hungary
2001: international festival of the folklore (Beli Manastrir – Croatia)
2002: Carnival of Point St. Martin, Aosta
2002: defile of the Italian popular custom , Termoli
2004: Italy and regions it resigns national of the folklore , Cascia
2005: Italy and regions it resigns national of the folklore, Agrigento
2006: XLI Fair of “Mandorlo in Fiore” in Agrigento
2007:”Das Olivenol– Artefaketn” , Fair of Products from Puglia, Wilstedt (Germania)
2007: XIV.IFF “KLATOVY 2007” Česká Republika



The costume of Bitonto, datable between 1785 and 1797 are characterized as follows:

WOMEN: skirts, underskirts, underpants, shirt, lanced bust, white lined apron , short jacket, white handkerchief, bucked shoes, 4 turn-necklace , earrings, silver rapiers among the hair.


MAN: white shirt, short jackets with double line of buttons, blue jackets, under knee-laced pants and a little bag on the low belly.
Light blue socks, black shoes with lapel on the neck of the foot, felt-made cap with wide and flat dome.

Via Filippo Massarenghi, 14 –70032 Bitonto (BA) - (c/o chiesa S. Silvestro) c.f.: 93268100729 - Tel: 3332007663 – 0803746365 – Fax:0803746365 e-mail: Re Pambanelle@libero.it