Karkum Project & Özgür Yalçın in Concert
Karkum Project — Claudio Merico on violin and Giulia Tripoti on vocals — join Tapadum founder Özgür Yalçın for an evening of world music at the Tapadum Ethnic Music Store in Brisighella.
On Saturday 11 July 2026, the Tapadum Ethnic Music Store in Brisighella opens its doors for a special evening of world music. Karkum Project — the duo of Claudio Merico and Giulia Tripoti — shares the stage with Özgür Yalçın, founder of Tapadum, for a concert built around the meeting of Mediterranean traditions. The music begins at 20:00 in our concert space in Villa Vezzano.
Karkum Project
Karkum Project is an “open project” founded by violinist and string player Claudio Merico and singer-songwriter Giulia Tripoti. Rooted in world music and the cultures of peoples, it works as an active container for collaborations and artistic projects — a genuine network of artists working in synergy to carry messages of peace, integration and coexistence. At its heart is a love for the Mediterranean, rich in cultures and history, and a belief in the arts as a vehicle for unity and fellowship among peoples.
For Karkum Project, “world” is a journey: the infinite musical languages of the world’s peoples, where knowledge and tradition sometimes stand on their own and sometimes merge with other elements without losing their beauty, giving rise to new and singular musical forms.
The project’s path
Karkum Project has been active in cultural work since 2018. Between 2018 and 2021 it produced three documentaries — on the Salento pizzica tradition (Franca Tarantino), on the organetto and pizzica of the land of the trulli (Mario Salvi), and on the musical traditions of the historic Arbëresh Albanian communities in Italy — alongside research into the traditional songs of central Italy (Sabina) with Enrico Scarinci. During the pandemic the duo produced “Earth Mother,” a music video bringing together musicians from Italy, Spain, China and Iran.
Over the following years Karkum Project collaborated with the Griot Ousmane Coulibaly in a dialogue between the Mediterranean and West Africa, organised the multicultural “Tufello World Music Festival” in Rome, and worked with Kurdish/Turkish artist Mübin Dünen on a programme of Anatolian folk music, with Bulgarian artist and researcher Milena Jeliazkova on traditional Bulgarian songs, and with flamenco dancer Flavia Luchenti. In 2020 the programme “Sefarad” revived the ancient Sephardic songs, a testimony to the multicultural Mediterranean.
Their love for Middle Eastern music led, in 2021, to “Karaköy — a musical journey to the gates of the Bosphorus,” a rare repertoire of songs and melodies from Turkey, Anatolia, Bulgaria and Greece. This research fed into the group’s first album, Aljama (Arabic for “religious community”), followed by an Italian tour throughout 2022. In 2023 the group produced “Sahira — Stories of Heroic Women,” an original world-music work dedicated to the heroic and divine feminine, with international guests from across the Mediterranean, India and Africa. You can read more about the project at karkumproject.it.
Join us
Doors open at 20:00 on Saturday 11 July 2026 at the Tapadum Ethnic Music Store, Villa Vezzano, Brisighella. Seating is limited — get in touch through our channels to reserve your place. Full details and updates are on the Facebook event page. We look forward to sharing this evening of music with you.