Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino

Italy
Folk Mediterranean
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino

They are regarded as Italy’s leading and longest-standing traditional music ensemble. Nowadays, 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. Critically acclaimed with 18 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.

Videos
  • Balla Nina - Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino - Official Music Video
    Balla Nina - Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino - Official Music Video
  • Ientu - (Live @ Sziget 2018) - CGS Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino
    Ientu - (Live @ Sziget 2018) - CGS Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino
  • Taranta - Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino (ft L. Einaudi) - Official Video
    Taranta - Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino (ft L. Einaudi) - Official Video
  • Solo andata - Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino
    Solo andata - Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino
  • Lu Giustacofane - CGS Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino - Official Video
    Lu Giustacofane - CGS Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino - Official Video
  • i-Italy|NY: Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino
    i-Italy|NY: Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino
  • 40 Quaranta - Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino
    40 Quaranta - Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino
Images
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Press
"FIVE STARS: The sextet, joined for some of the set by a very lovely dancer, play traditional dance music that made the rows of seats installed in the venue an unnecessary impediment. With three very different and very fine singers in their number as well as virtuosi on pipes, whistles, button accordian, fiddle, bouzouki and tamburello, CGS are like a Mediterranean version of the high energy Quebecois groups."
The Herald Scotland
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino was a whirlwind.
New York Times
The band has few peers in contemporary world music
The New Yorker
Traditional music has rarely sounded more intense, mysterious and urgent
The Independent
one of the best bands in the world at the moment without a shred of doubt
fRoots Magazine
Discography
Meridiana
Meridiana
2021
Ponderosa Music Records
Canzoniere
Canzoniere
2017
Ponderosa Music Records
Quaranta
Quaranta
2015
Ponderosa Music Records
Line up

Mauro Durante - voice, frame drums, violin
Giulio Bianco - Italian bagpipes, harmonica, recorders
Massimiliano Morabito - diatonic accordion
Emanuele Licci - voice, guitar, bouzouki
Giancarlo Paglialunga - voice, tamburrieddhu
Silvia Perrone – dance
Alessia Tondo OR  RAchele Andrioli OR Enza Pagliara- voice

Availability

Territories:

Luxembourg, Eastern Europe, Northern Europe, Central Europe

2024 all year
2025 all year
Contact
Frank Abraham
Frank Abraham
Managing Director, Head of A&R Global Pop Music, Booking Agent
fa@f-cat.de / +49 30 26 103 29 20

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