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U BAND (THE PROMOTER). Pictured Antonio Perri - "Perriciellu" photo year 1966.

In small communities, as Pianopoli, there was "u bandsman. Bandsman the task was to warn the country of things in the public interest. Started from the highest points of the country (Santa Croce), where the echo of his voice reached the most people, "and Jett u Bandu. Then he went around the streets and alleys of the town to announce the news. people went out of their homes or look out the window and listened carefully "u Bandu" which subsequently was reported across the country. In ancient times, to proclaim also ridiculous and joking, he was paid (often in kind, with a good glass of wine). When the country was the pescevendolo, in a rustic paper used to wrap the fish, put a quantity of the anchovies and the crier went through the streets of the village showing the quality of anchovies, of course, was paid in this case, with the anchovies. What is not sold, they led to 'only restaurant in the country "From Aunt Leonilda Casale" as they called it, and you fry and eat them all. pescevendolo from the band, the cook and his family, everything was served with the wine of the restaurant.
Some of those we remember; John Catroppa (Aquilino), Giuseppe Vescio (Engegno) U Bizzarru. In the early '60s, "u bandsman" was also Antonio Perri, well known as "Perriciellu" remember when he warned the population of the service interruption of drinking water in summer or when advised the owners of land in the locality; Gaccia river, and dipodi Badia to show up at City Hall to discuss the partition of water for irrigation. All this, and now lost.