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Το τραγούδι του Καγρηγόρη.
(2016-06-08)
This song tells the story of a shepherd named Grigoris, who lived in Ikaria in the early years of the 20th century and whose sheep were constantly being stolen by other shepherds without him ever being able to catch them ...
Σήμερα γάμος γίνεται.
(2016-05-08)
In this wedding song the singer wishes the bride and the groom and their parents a life as full of years and happiness as the flowers in spring of the snows in winter.
The song is strophic. Each single fifteen syllable ...
Κάλαντα Πρωτοχρονιάς.
(2016-06-09)
This New Year's carol is strophic in composition. The basic melody is repeated for each iambic heptameter line, but each time with a wealth of ornamentation in a very Byzantine style.
Αμπέλι μου στραβόραδο.
(2016-06-08)
The words of this song conjure up the characteristic landscape of Ikaria, with its vine-dotted slopes, rainy Mesaria, the storms that batter the mountainous region of Athera, and the sunbathed coastal village of Evdhilos, ...
Ικαριώτικος "Ευδηλιώτικος"
(2016-06-09)
This dance, with its duple (2/4) rhythm, is a type of syrtos. It is the dance most characteristic of the island, and each locality has its own variation. Indeed, each individual instrumentalist plays his own version. With ...
Η Έλλη θέλει σκότωμα.
(2016-06-08)
This song, which obviously originated in Asia Minor, is strophic in composition. Each verse is in the form of a rhyming couplet in fifteen syllable iambic meter, followed by a thirteen syllable refrain in a contrasting ...