FolknWorld
Folk music musicians from abroad.
Stelios Petrakis – Spondi (album release)
The characteristic sound of Stelios Petrakis is familiar, for several years now, not only in the Greek music scene but also in World Music. The…
Ali Doğan Gönültaş – Interview
By Sotiris BekasAli Doğan Gönültaş is a versatile individual and musician, constantly restless and creative, who quickly garnered attention in the world music scene with…
Balkan World Music Chart – The First Quarter 2023
This is the BWMC top ten list for the first quarter of 2023 of the albums that had been released from August 2022 till March…
Divanhana – Live In SIMMCity (Vienna)
By Sotiris BekasDivanhana performed in Vienna (November 21) as part of a European tour that underscores their rising popularity. More importantly, it reflects the fact that…
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…
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…
