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Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino: globalFEST 2012

By Anastasia Tsioulcas
Published January 10, 2012 at 9:14 AM EST
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino performs during globalFEST at New York City's Webster Hall on Jan. 8.
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Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino performs during globalFEST at New York City's Webster Hall on Jan. 8.

Traditional folk music isn't all gentleness and light — just ask this band from southern Italy's Puglia region. Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino specializes in the frenzied traditional pizzica tarantata, a dance that's said to cure the mortal wound of a tarantula's bite.

Joined by a scarf-wielding dancer (as well as a surprise guest artist, the Lebanese-French trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf), this band of vocalists, percussion, recorder and accordion wields a tremendous, earthy energy that had the room hopping — literally.

Set List

  • "Pizzica Tarantata"

  • "Cogli La Rosa"

  • "Dumenica Matina"

  • "Bella Ci Dormi"

  • "Nu Te Fermare"

  • "Tira Cavallu"

  • "Focu D'Amore"

  • "Beddhu Stanotte"

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    Anastasia Tsioulcas
    Anastasia Tsioulcas is a reporter on NPR's Arts desk. She is intensely interested in the arts at the intersection of culture, politics, economics and identity, and primarily reports on music. Recently, she has extensively covered gender issues and #MeToo in the music industry, including backstage tumult and alleged secret deals in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations against megastar singer Plácido Domingo; gender inequity issues at the Grammy Awards and the myriad accusations of sexual misconduct against singer R. Kelly.
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