3-piece mandolin ensemble performing traditional and early modern Italian and American Italian melodies
Raleigh, N.C.

Listen to Oak City Serenaders in their first appearance at Festa Italiana at 11 a.m. Saturday, September 20, in Apex, N.C.

Oak City Serenaders is a Raleigh-based mandolin trio playing traditional dance music from Italy and the Americas. Much of their repertoire is drawn from the 19th-century ballo liscio tradition: ballroom dance music composed and arranged by immigrants from southern Italy to the United States. They also play their own arrangements of compositions by Italian-American virtuosi such as Frank Fazio, Giovanni Vicari, and Giovanni Gioviale, as well as a selection of folk melodies from Sicilian barbershops.