Biographies of the most important folk music musicians and performers.
By Sotiris Bekas The Zoumbas family became widely known through references made by the American ethnomusicologist, record collector, and author, Christopher King, in his book…
Domna Samiou was born on October 12th 1928, in the Kaisariani1 neighborhood in Athens, and died on March 10th 2012. Her parents were refugees from…
By Sotiris BekasThe Department of Music Studies at the University of Ioannina, located on the university campus in Arta, is the institutional successor to the Department…
Dora Stratou was born in 1903 in Athens. Her mother, Maria Koromila, was the daughter of the playwright (“The Lover of the Shepherdess” and “Maroula’s…
Written by Sotiris BekasAs a member of Babra, Veronika Varga plays bass in one of Hungary's best folk music bands, which has emerged on Budapest’s…
Written by Sotiris Bekas One of the things that distinguishes the truly great people of this…
Interview by Michael PolychronisLefteris Chavoutsas carried a "fateful" destiny even before his birth—one that seems…
Written by Sotiris BekasAs a member of Babra, Veronika Varga plays bass in one of…
By Sotiris BekasThe Department of Music Studies at the University of Ioannina, located on the university…
By Sotiris Bekas The Zoumbas family became widely known through references made by the American…
Written by Sotiris BekasThe perception of music and its influential beauty is a primal instinct.…
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