Polyphonic songs, ecstatic dances and magical legends from the villages of Southern Italy. Encardia explore this Mediterranean musical tradition, placing particular emphasis on local dialects, and above all on Grecanico, a dialect sung and recited to the accompaniment of guitars, harmonicas, accordion and percussion and danced to the rhythms of the pizzica pizzica, a tarantella. The combination of the Grecanico language and musical idiom with a Greek band which takes this tradition and creates within it, helps bring people closer together as they wander, singing, through the villages of Italy’s Magna Grecia.
Encardia
Vangelis Papageorgiou, accordion, harmonica, vocals
Michalis Kontaxakis, guitar, vocals
Natalia Kotsani, vocals, guitar, percussion
Dimitris Tsekouras, double bass, vocals
Kostas Konstantatos, percussion, violin, mandolin, vocals
Choreography - Movement - Dance
Ioanna Mitsika
Visual environment - Lighting – Video mapping
Stathis Mitsios
Sound Technician
Paschalis Kolentsis