Concert by Justin Adams & Mauro Durante (guests of Alain Weber)

Guitar hero Justin Adams, producer of Tinariwen, Lo'Jo and Rachid Taha, lover of North African groove, Robert Plant's guitarist with the Sensational Space Shifters, world music traveler to the banks of the Niger, meets Mauro Durante, violinist and percussionist from southern Italy. Son of Daniele Durante, founder of the ensemble Canzioniere Grecanico Salentino, he now leads the septet that perpetuates the taranta, a cousin of the Neapolitan tarantella and a healing ritual.

In the past, explains Mauro Durante,"the pizzica was played on the tambourine and violin to cure people who, bitten by a tarantula, fell into a state of lethargy - women in the majority of cases, victims of the spiders while harvesting tobacco leaves. Making them dance to the frantic rhythm of the pizzica, until they fell from exhaustion, brought them back to life." For this concert, Mohamed Errebea, playing guembri, the lute of the Gnawas, will join the two musicians, creating a connection with the Maghreb and African world.