“How am I going to be a legend?”: Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino at 50 | Songlines
Thursday, April 10, 2025

“How am I going to be a legend?”: Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino at 50

Rossella Pinto, one of the original members of Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, and her son Mauro Durante, their current bandleader, reflect on the group’s 50-year history of preserving and promoting the popular pizzica music of southern Italy

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CGS in 2015, Mauro Durante is third left

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