San Calogero boasts various traditions mainly represented by religious celebrations. The most important one is the “A'ffruntata” a local dialect word meaning “the meeting” that is a procession held on Easter day morning . It represents the meeting between Saint John and the Lady Mary in which Saint John tells Lady Mary that Jesus was resurrected.
An important traditional presence in San Calogero is the Band.
As far back as 1886 San Calogero could boast a small band directed by “maestro” Gregorio Mazza. Although tradition has not retained much data about the band, it is certain that it survived until World War I. During those years it performed in various towns and villages around the province (Catanzaro then) and occasionally beyond its boundaries.
A reasonably good band was created in 1946: its first maestro was Francesco Lombardi; he was succeeded by several others - the latest being Francesco Romano a formerly on our school teaching staff. In the early 1980s the ‘’Complesso di Camera ‘F. Cilea’’, Chamber Music Band F. Cilea, was officially inaugurated: it epitomizes the loftiest phase in San Calogero’s musical history. Today the band comprises more than 60 musicians who have graduated from or attend Conservatories.