Folk concert

Eugenio Bennato and the Popular Orchestra of the South

direct from ErasmoPetringa

a project by Nunzio Areni

music by Eugenio Bennato and anonymous Neapolitan ´500s and ´600s.

directed by Bruno Colella

CCTM - Circuito Campano Teatro Musica production

in collaboration with Just in Time srl - Mauro Diazzi

technical director Lucio Mazzoli

On the program will be 500esque villanelle, instrumental pieces related to the healing tradition of taranta, and compositions by Eugenio Bennato from the days of Brigante se more to the more recent Taranta Power, Che il
Mediterraneo sia..., Grande Sud, to the latest ballads dedicated to two historical characters of the brigandage epic: Ninco Nanco and Michelina De Cesare(La ballata di Michela).

The musical journey that led me to the discovery of the popular forms of the southern regions and, which later, expanded to the forms of the entire Mediterranean basin, and ultimately of all the souths of the world, started from Naples, which is the city of the five Conservatories, the city of Roberto De Simone, Edoardo De Filippo, Roberto Murolo, and Edoardo Caliendo, masters of art and life for the time that I frequented them.
At the beginning of this journey of artistic and musical discovery I met Nunzio Areni, with whom we began many years ago the historic experience of the Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare. My path as an
artist led me to to meet Nunzio again and, at his suggestion, the large ensemble of
voices and popular instruments that makes up the Orchestra Popolare del Sud. The path I followed already naturally contains all the images of this new and ancient orchestra: Here is the genesis of Briganti Emigranti.
This show with the Orchestra Popolare del Sud was born from a mirror and a synthesis of this path of roads and sounds that divide, split, reunite and constitute the sonic warp
of the stories I am going to tell with voice and guitar. The members of the orchestra appear to times in the background like a musical tableau vivent, to times they burst into the foreground, expressing with their voices and gazes the existence of a land of ambitious dreams and deeply rooted trees.
Eugenio Bennato

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