Student Announcements
Valentine's Day Concert
Thursday, February 14, 7:30p.m.
Valentine’s Day Concert with
Canzoniere Grenico Salentino from Italy
Ishpeming Westwood High School Auditorium
Tickets: $20
Make it a very special Valentine’s Day by coming to this concert by the southern Italian music and dance ensemble, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino. This concert will be held at Ishpeming Westwood High School in the school auditorium. Your ticket will include an afterglow reception with Italian sweets provided by the Paisano Club of Marquette County.
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.
Valentine’s Day Concert with
Canzoniere Grenico Salentino from Italy
Ishpeming Westwood High School Auditorium
Tickets: $20
Make it a very special Valentine’s Day by coming to this concert by the southern Italian music and dance ensemble, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino. This concert will be held at Ishpeming Westwood High School in the school auditorium. Your ticket will include an afterglow reception with Italian sweets provided by the Paisano Club of Marquette County.
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.