?Cantar furlana? (sing furlana) is both a musical and cultural project, the result of a long researchwork focused on the dances, the poetical texts and the traditional tales of the Tuscan-Emilian Appennines. They have all been rearranged to create a whole repertoire of author songs whose central theme is precisely an ancient dance of the Appennines: the Furlana. Probably coming from Friuli, it put down strong roots in the Appennin territory and it has been performed and played until the 1950s . Then, it has been completely forgotten, as happened to many other ancient dances. It was thanks to the rediscovery work of some ethnomusicologists and musicians that Francesco Boni (the creator of the project as well as the author of the music and re-elaborator of the texts) could combine the ?furlana? with the literary suggestions of the territory in a creative and non-philological way.
