When: Thursday, February 7, 2013 — 7:30 p.m.

Where: Johnny D's — 17 Holland St., Davis Square, Somerville MA [map]

Italy's leading ensemble on the world music circuit, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, opens 2013 with a series of North American shows.

Hailing from the Puglia region, the seven piece band and dancer are the number one exponents in a new wave of young performers re-inventing Southern Italy's Pizzica Taranta music and dance traditions for today's global audience.

CGS introduced North American audiences to the power of Taranta for the first time in 2011. Bostoniano had a chance to shoot some video and take pictures at their September 25, 2011, show at Cambridge's Club Passim.

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Fonte: Bostoniano