Pizzica, Salento (Italy) - Beddhu stanotte by Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino

Pizzica pizzica performed live at Festival MiTo - Milan, 13/9/2011
Canzoniere Grecanico Salenitno
Mauro Durante: violin, voice, tamburello
Luca Tarantino: guitar, battente, bass
Maria Mazzotta: voice, tamburello, percussion
Giancarlo Paglialunga: voice, tamburello, percussion
Massimiliano Morabito: diatonic accordion
Giulio Bianco: bagpipes, flutes, harmonica
Silvia Perrone: dance
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LE MONDE
Un violon d'une gloutonne énergie, rejoint par une fougueuse voix féminine, puis celle d'un chanteur tout aussi emporté et le rythme entêtant du tamburello, un tambourin martelé avec frénésie. Dès l'ouverture de Focu d'amore, cette joyeuse bande italienne va droit au but
L'ESPRESSO
il Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino suona ogni sera. Il più lungo tour di un gruppo italiano in America: 21 date, tutto easurito. Oggi il gruppo annovera tra i suoi più accesi sostenitori David Byrne
CANZONIERE GRECANICO SALENTINO
Best Italian World Music Band, MEI 2010 - Babel Med Music 2011- globalFEST NYC 2012
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Formed by writer Rina Durante in 1975, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino is regarded as Italy's leading and longest-standing traditional music ensemble, hailing from the Salento, the heel of the Italian boot, in Puglia.
Italy's fascinating dichotomy of tradition and modernity come together in the music of CGS: the seven piece band and dancer are the leading exponents in a new wave of young performers re-inventing Southern Italy's Pizzica musical and dance traditions for today's global audience.
The tens of thousands who often congregate for this Lecce-based band's concerts in Italy know: Bandleader, fiddler, and drummer Mauro Durante and company can make an audience shimmy with the energy of the ancient ritual of pizzica tarantata, said to cure the taranta spider's bite with its frenzied trance dances. CGS shows are a life explosion: full of energy, passion, rhythm and mystery, they bring the audience from the past into modernity, and back.
Leadership of the ensemble was handed down to Durante by his acclaimed father Daniele, in 2007. CGS has revitalized both the rousing and the introspective sides of Southern Italian song and dance. Durante continues to innovate and energize, bringing decades of experience playing with global artists (Ballake Sissoko, Ibrahim Maalouf, Piers Faccini), contemporary classical composers (Ludovico Einaudi), and pop mavericks (Stewart Copeland of The Police).
At the age of 26, Durante was already the musical assistant of Ludovico Einaudi, Maestro Concertatore of the powerful Italian La Notte della Taranta festival, and works with him in the creation and artistic production of that spectacular performance. CGS open the Concertone of La Notte della Taranta in Melpignano, performing live in front of over 100.000 people.
Critically acclaimed with 16 albums and countless live performances throughout USA, Canada, Europe and the Middle East, in 2010 CGS was awarded Best Italian World Music Group at Italy's MEI confab.
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