Sicilian Dylan

I don’t take many pictures of people, but this very talented young woman wasn’t camera-shy. She was belting out Sicilian folk songs in Ortygia, (Syracusa) Sicily, in the piazza beside the city’s remarkable cathedral that incorporates columns from the ca. 500 BCE Greek Temple of Athena in its fabric. She really made the whole place come alive and I admired her for singing songs of Sicily, in Sicilian dialect, and not international pop songs, which might have filled her guitar case with more coins. Her wonderful voice echoed off walls 2500 years old. Athena would be proud of her.