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Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino (CGS), formed by writer Rina Durante in 1975, is a traditional music ensemble from 
Based in Lecce, the group performs concerts under the direction of fiddler and drummer Mauro Durante. Durante took over as bandleader from his father, Daniele Durante, in 2007. Previously, Durante was the musical assistant to Einaudi, Maestro Concertatore of the La Notte della Taranta festival.
CGS has recorded 18 albums and performed in the US, Canada, Europe and the Middle East. In 2010, CGS was awarded Best Italian World Music Group at the Meeting of Independent Labels festival in Italy.
In 2015, they released ''Quaranta'' (''40''), an album recorded live-to-tape without overdubs and produced by Ian Brennan.
Sito ufficiale Canzoniere Grecanico SalentinoWomex
Salento
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, Italy
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. The seven piece band and dancer perform a contemporary style of Southern Italy's traditional Pizzica
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It is part of the larger family of tarantella.
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music and dance.
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, Ibrahim Maalouf
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, Piers Faccini
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, composer Ludovico Einaudi
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, and drummer Stewart Copeland
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of The Police
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. CGS opened the Concertone of La Notte della Taranta in Melpignano in front of over 100,000 people.
Based in Lecce, the group performs concerts under the direction of fiddler and drummer Mauro Durante. Durante took over as bandleader from his father, Daniele Durante, in 2007. Previously, Durante was the musical assistant to Einaudi, Maestro Concertatore of the La Notte della Taranta festival.
CGS has recorded 18 albums and performed in the US, Canada, Europe and the Middle East. In 2010, CGS was awarded Best Italian World Music Group at the Meeting of Independent Labels festival in Italy.
In 2015, they released ''Quaranta'' (''40''), an album recorded live-to-tape without overdubs and produced by Ian Brennan.
Band members
* Mauro Durante, frame drums, violin, vocals * Emanuele Licci, bouzuki, classical guitar, vocals * Alessia Tondo, vocals * Silvia Perrone, dance * Giulio Bianco, harmonica, zampogna (Italian bagpipes),recorder
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* Massimiliano Morabito, diatonic accordion
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* Giancarlo Paglialunga, tamburello
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, vocals
Discography
* 1977 – Canti di Terra d'Otranto e della Grecia Salentina * 1980 – Concerto 1 * 1983 – Come farò a diventare un mito * 1985 – Concerto 2 * 1988 – Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino * 1991 – Concerto 3 * 1994 – Sutt'acqua e sutta ientu navegamu * 1994 – Mamminieddhu Zuccaratu * 1997 – Ni pizzicau lu core * 1998 – Ballati tutti quanti ballati forte * 2000 – Canti e pizzichi d'amore * 2000 – Carataranta * 2001 – Pizzica pizzica * 2002 – Alla riva del mare * 2002 – Serenata * 2010 – Focu d'amore * 2012 – * 2015 – Quaranta * 2017 – CanzoniereAwards and nominations
* 2010 – Best Italian World Music Band – MEI's confab * 2011 – Babel Med Music selection * 2012 – globalFEST NYC selection * 2012 –Womex
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selection
* 2013 – SXSW selection
* 2013 – Montreal International Jazz Festival
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selection
* 2013 – Womad
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selection
See also
*Tarantism
Tarantism is a form of hysteric behaviour originating in Southern Italy, popularly believed to result from the bite of the wolf spider '' Lycosa tarantula'' (distinct from the broad class of spiders also called tarantulas).
A better candidate c ...
* Grecìa Salentina
Grecìa Salentina (Griko for " Salentine Greece") is an area in the peninsula of Salento in southern Italy, near the town of Lecce which is inhabited by the Griko people, an ethnic Greek minority in southern Italy who speak Griko, a variant of ...
References
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External links
* {{Authority control Italian folk music groups