"Curuna" Live at The Yorkwoods Theatre 2008

Dominic Mancuso Live performance of "Curuna" .
Musicians
Dominic Mancuso - Vocals & Acoustic Gtr.
Davide Direnzo - drums ,
Louis Simao - accordion /acoustic bass
Michael Occhipinti - elec. guitar


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Music

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• Dominic Mancuso
• Michael Occhipinti
• Davide Direnzo
• Louis Simao
• world music
• Sicilian
• roots

[lolabella70]

Beautiful music...........love you Davide xo

[verusicilianu]

sicilian is not a dialect but a language

and it is much older than the italian language

[GuitarraArrizza]

oopsie on the accordion at 0:48 - it happens to the best of us! ;)

[GuitarraArrizza]

I LOVE THE feel to this piece... - hehe...chi maravigghjusa!!

[GuitarraArrizza]

@GuitarraArrizza Since i was young, I've regarded Sicilian, a mysterious exotic and colorful tongue (my pappa always enchanted me with that speech) - when i actually started to appreciate the tongue, it started becoming second nature and less foreign-sounding....While I still appreciate the standard Italian as a sort of lingua franca of Italia, I much prefer speaking, writing Sicilian more than ever now...it is a language that should be preserved and treasured, not ashamed of

[GuitarraArrizza]

@zaratin42 - as for me, I feel the opposite...growing up learning both Italian and Sicilian, I've learned to appreciate and honor the language (not merely a dialect) as it is at the very center of what it means to be Sicilian (and i say that proudly, im not ashamed of being "Siculu") - definitely the Islamic Empire, although its presence was shorter than in Andalusia, Spain - left its cultural imprint on the Sicilian people as well as numerous other cultures as well...

[GuitarraArrizza]

@verusicilianu I'm ditto with verusicilianu as well.....(growin' up w/ a Sicilian background, i learned both Italian and Sicilian) - much like Sardinian is its own language, Sicily, as an island w/ a unique culture all to its own...."La Lingua Sicula" - holds a distinctive status as well...(the ethnologue also considers Sicilian a separate tongue") - like Spanish Vs. Portuguese....

[verusicilianu]

@zaratin42 it is a language not a dialect

[theshipsdrummer]

went to highschool with the drummer and am proud to say he kicked my ass on drums!

[CarmeluGilisi]

GREAT STUFF!!!! zaratin42: somethings are best to leave'm the way they R... can not be changed in a different language it would change the entire meaning!!! in any event even if you don't understand the language you still feel this great music played by awesome musicians don't you?