Pizzica Indiavolata (Live @ Sziget 2018) - CGS Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino

great memory from our last show at Sziget 2018 in Budapest. Thank you all!

CGS
Mauro Durante: violin, tamburello, backing vocals
Giulio Bianco: recorders, bagpipes, harmonica, flutes, bass
Emanuele Licci: vocals, guitar, bouzouki
Massimiliano Morabito: organetto
Giancarlo Paglialunga: vocals, tamburello, bendir, tapan
Silvia Perrone: dance
Alessia Tondo: vocals, castanets, percussion

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).

Durante was already the musical assistant of Ludovico Einaudi, Maestro Concertatore of the powerful Italian La Notte della Taranta festival, and worked 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. The year after he was assistant to the next festival's maestro Goran Bregovic.
Critically acclaimed with 17 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.

[antoniocireddu]

Da venir la pelle d’oca...come fa questa sonorità a non entrarti nel sangue!👏👏👏👏👏❤️

[t.f.]

Giancarlo "The Gladiator" Paglialunga 😍😍😍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 BRAVISSIMI!
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[kenhunt]

Even during covid how could this not make you feel better?
Hopefully, we will get to the Greek area south and east of Galatina this time. Can't wait to ride a bike in that region.
Someday I would love to see the Taranta Festival in Melpignano in August.
Be safe.
Bella Salento.

[Lynbeats]

that tambourine guy has to be exhausted after playing that song ha ha this was really good!

[cosimosemeraro]

Massimiliano Morabito alla fisarmonica, fantastico!!!😊

[antoniocireddu]

Più vi guardò e più rimangono estasiato della vostra bravura, siete GRANDIOSI!!!!👏👏👏👏👏

[pietropennetta]

Carissimi Amici il riascoltarvi e sempre una grande emozione Siete FANTASTICI

[giuseppeaudino]

Bellissima bravissimi tutti 💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿🙏👋🍻

[angelo.]

Siete incredibile da bollire il sangue.

[antonellacoletta]

Questa non è musica, è pura passione che ti prende l'anima e ne fa quello che vuole.

[beccogiallo]

Ho il CD ed è stato molto bello vedere questo video.

[alkyoniGR]

Viva musica grecanica ! Ciao Mauro! :) Ciao Emanuelle apo Ghetonia! :) ♥

[minopezzulla]

Grandi. Me rizzicanu li carni cu bu sentu

[sergioroig]

Saludos y fuerza a todos lis afectafo por el temblor

[aurore]

J’en ai eu le souffle coupé à la première écoute. 😳

[alessandovolpe]

Mi spiace, davvero molto scrivere quanto segue...ma qui il tamburello è davvero eccessivamente disarmonico, troppo davvero, rovina l'eccellenza del gruppo.