FolknWorld
Folk music musicians from abroad.
Simon Karas – Biography
Simon Karas was a musicologist and a researcher of the Greek musical tradition and heritage. It is widely believed that his long-standing and arduous investigative…
Carols in the Balkans
Written by Sotiris BekasCarols, colinde, kolednice, colindă, koledari (коледари), koliada are some of the variations of the same word used across the Balkans to describe folk…
The bridge of the 200 folk fables
The bridge of 200... folk fables! The renowned “folk fable” of the Bridge of Arta with the dramatic plot that demanded the sacrifice of the…
An Interview with Marin Bunea: A Living Legacy of Moldova’s Lăutari Tradition
Written by Sotiris BekasThe term Lăutar, according to the DEX ("Dicționarul Explicativ al Limbii Române" - "Explanatory Dictionary of the Romanian Language"), derives from lăută…
The Samuel Baud-Bovy collection
“I am not so naïve as to imagine that the chelidonisma taught by Cleoboulos of Lindos to the ancient peoples of Rhodes was the same…
Stories
Ali Doğan Gönültaş – Interview
By Sotiris BekasAli Doğan Gönültaş is a versatile individual and musician, constantly restless and creative,…
The work of VLACH («Vanishing Languages and Cultural Heritage»)
Written by Sotiris BekasThe documentation and analysis of endangered linguistic and cultural diversity worldwide are the…
Katerina Papadopoulou & Aegean Arc – Aura (Album Review)
Written by Sotiris Bekas"If 'Notio Toxo-In Karpathos' was a music proposal based on the repertoire of…
The Soul of Epirus vol.II – Album Review
Written by Sotiris BekasThe second part of Petroloukas Chalkias's collaboration with Vasilis Kostas is an…
Yorgos Arvanitis – The Journey of Askavlos
Interview by Sotiris BekasA musical instrument emerging from the depths of a very ancient musical…
Chronis Aidonidis dies at the age of 95
The great master of Greek folk music, Chronis Aidonidis, "departed" from this world today at…
