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Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino

Giulio Bianco Bagpipes, recorders, ciaramella, harmonica, bass Mauro Durante Violin, frame drums, voice Emanuele Licci Voice, guitar, bouzouki Maria Mazzotta Voice, tamburello, percussion Massimiliano Morabito Diatonic accordion Giancarlo Paglialunga Voice, tamburello, percussion Silvia Perrone Dance

Representation by Eye for Talent

June 25 at 8pmUniversity Theatre

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Critically acclaimed with 17 albums and countless live performances throughout Europe and the Middle East, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino was originally founded in 1975 by Daniele Durante. Leadership of the ensemble was handed down to Durante’s son Mauro, already a noted percussionist and violinist, in 2007. In 2010 Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino was awarded Best Italian World Music Group at Italy’s MEI confab.

Most of the songs played by the Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino are music for dance: the traditional dance of Salento, called pizzica or, nowadays, taranta. This dance is linked to a local cultural phenomenon called tarantism; sometimes it is danced between woman and man, as a form of courtship.

This kind of music is passionate, obsessive and conducive to trance, owing to the fact that its main rhythmical actor is a local type of frame drum, the tamburello, which resounds like a never-stopping beating heart. The power of this music is at its highest during live shows, when the audience moves and dances to the rhythm.

In their shows Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino also include traditional love songs (ballads with beautiful melodies and lyrics, typical of folk poetry, which used to be sung under the window of the beloved one), lullabies, work songs (significant testimonies of the bad conditions of the working classes), and jokes, as well as new compositions, in an attempt to create a continuum between tradition and modernity.

Italy’s fascinating dichotomy of tradition and modernity come together in the music of Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino. Hailing from the Puglia region, the seven piece band and dancer are the leading exponents in a new wave of young performers re-inventing Southern Italy’s Pizzica Taranta musical and dance traditions for today’s global audience. Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino bring the powerful concert experience of The Notte Della Taranta festival to audiences around the world. This famed annual event has drawn the attention of noted international music figures such as Anglo-American drummer Stewart Copeland, Malian kora virtuoso Ballaké Sissoko and pan-European singer-songwriter Piers Faccini, all of whom have traveled to the Lecce province to perform with the group.

As evidenced by the critical attention in Italian-American filmaker John Turturro’s documentation of the Naples music scene in Passione, there is a strong interest in the rediscovery and restoration of one’s roots and identity through traditional musical forms. Rather than creating a lovingly-preserved postcard from the past, the Pizzica Taranta experience encourages contemporary global culture to play a role in the on-going regeneration of the music and dance of Puglia born from the ancient Italian tale of the Tarantella. The Puglia region and its music scene are currently among the most vibrant in Italy, and its extraordinary cultural renaissance is now being exposed to the world.

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