The island of Hydra will host the 11th Rebetiko Gathering from October 13-16. The event is a combination of conference, music workshops, formal concerts and jam sessions.
It is organized by the Free University of Hydra, an organisation dedicated to the study and research of all matters concerning the culture, history and social life of all the countries which border the Mediterranean. Moreover, the Ad Hoc Rebetiko, a fifteen member band based in London and supported by the London University School of Oriental & African Studies organizes its annual Athens –Istanbul- Hydra tour.
Bringing together Greek, Turkish, Cypriot, and British musicians, the band performs Greek and Anatolian music with local musicians in Greece and Turkey. The Rebetiko was born at the beginning of the 20th century out of the emigration and population exchanges that followed WWI.
As musical genre, it originated in Greek cities, most of them coastal, in today's Greece and Asia Minor. Rebetiko mostly sings of hardship, prison, poverty, war and love.
source:http://www.greeknewsagenda.gr
Hanoi’s New Circus takes us on a poetic journey to distant Vietnam and the Far East, at the Onassis Cultural Centre, from December 22 to 29.
A real Christmas treat for lovers of classical ballet of all ages, P.I. Tchaikovsky‘s Swan Lake will be presented at the Athens Concert Hall for twenty-two performances, featuring some of the best-known names of international ballet and the Kremlin Ballet’s Corps de Ballet.
For second year successively the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation celebrates Christmas with a festive concert of Baroque Music, on December 27-28.
Steve Lucky and the Rhumba Bums bring swinging Christmas in Athens. At the forefront of swing revival, the San Francisco group will be on stage at the Half Note Jazz Club in full jump swing and R&B mood until December 27.
The Association of Artists for Peace, established in 2001 to support peace and reconciliation through musical events, is holding a Bach concert at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall.
Zagori is an area of great natural beauty and unique architecture in the Pindus Mountains in Epirus in Northwestern Greece. The area is of about 1.000 square kilometers and contains 46 villages. Zagoria villages is called by Greeks “Zagorochoria” meaning the villages behind the mountain.
Read more...
In 1989, Professor of Byzantine Studies, Helen Ahrweiler is appointed Chairman of the Cultural Centre Pompidou in Paris