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Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino at Button Factory
Courtesy of Improvised Music Company | Posted on July 3, 2014
Where
Button Factory
Curved St, Temple Bar
Dublin 2
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When
Mon, August 11, 2014
20:00
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Ever been bitten by a tarantula? In Puglia, right down in the heel of Southern Italy’s boot, farm labourers in the last millennium developed a unique antidote. Its called pizzica tarantata, a feverish dance that was said to drive the spider’s toxin from the dancer’s body.
These days, tarantata is a music and dance tradition as robust as our own, and Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino are its most exciting interpreters. Established in 1975 by its current leader’s father, Its been a heady few years for Mauro Durante, who has repurposed the old trance music for a new Italian generation, and stadium audiences are a given at the hugely popular Notte della Taranta festival in their native Salento....