A tribute to Pantelis Volaris and the 50-year legacy of the Volaris Music Centre in Melbourne, celebrating his pivotal role ...
Thanks to the ground broken by Greek-American actor/writer Nia Vardalos' smash 2002 film and recently premiered TV series based on her family experiences, the stars currently seem fortuitously aligned ...
Marking the 100th anniversary of Mikis Theodorakis’ birth, this tribute reflects on his life, music, resistance and global ...
Legendary clarinetist Petroloukas Halkias and millennial laouto player Vasilis Kostas both hail from the same region of Greece — Epirus — and Halkias even played at Kostas’ parents’ wedding. But the ...
Greece is steeped in fascinating holiday traditions, with its Christmas carols, or kalanda, being some of the most ...
Thanks to a classicist’s research, the sounds of ancient Greek music can be heard again. Scholars have long been familiar with the instruments used during the era, and, of course, with the texts by ...
Headlining the New Orleans Greek Festival is not like most fests. It means performing on several days, and it helps to be able to please different festgoers’ tastes, from traditional music to ...
EVROPOS, Greece, - In Evropos, a village in northern Greece, Danis Koumartzis carves out the wooden sound box of a traditional lyre before covering it with animal hide and attaching nine strings that ...
Hotels, airports and shopping malls in Greece could be forced to play more domestically-made music under new legislation proposed by the Culture Ministry, intended to support Greek composers and ...