Tonight, we are celebrating the birthday of probably the most important songwriter of the last three decades in Greece, by focusing on the more experimental moments of his career. Thanasis Papakonstantinou was born on April 26, 1959 and, since 1993 and the release of his first album, he has been constantly...
Time to celebrate the legacy of tango! UNESCO observes: "The Argentinian and Uruguayan tradition of the Tango, now familiar around the world, was developed by the urban lower classes in Buenos Aires and Montevideo in the Rio de la Plata basin. Among this mix of European immigrants to the region, descendants...
This week, we have been shedding light on the presence of four global rhythms in Greek song and today we are going on a trip to Germany and Austria. Our destination? Greek waltz music by leading composers such as Eleni Karaindrou, Katerina Polemi, Stavros Lantsias, Apollon Kouskoumvekakis, Giannis Glezos...
Historical tribute to the mass slaughter of 327 people by the Nazis and their local collaborators, in Katranitsa, Kozani on April 23th and 24th, 1944.
The holocaust of the martyred community of Pyrgoi is the second largest in history after Kalavryta. The German operation with the collusion of Greek...
Today we will be focusing on a fantastic band that has turned swing into a fully legitimate genre of Greek music: The Speakeasies’ Swing Band! The Speakeasies Swing Band! have been touring in Greece & in festivals abroad since 2010. They released their first EP “Bathtub Gin” in 2012. Three years...
Giannis Papoutsakis’ “Heliotrope” is dedicated to the lyric poet of love, humanity and struggle, Tasos Livaditis, on April 22nd, on the occasion of his birth on April 20th. His poetry was set to music by Mikis Theodorakis, Giorgos Tsangaris and Manos Loizos
The week that starts today here at GME explores the presence of four global rhythms in Greek song. Today we go on a trip to Jamaica and then return to Athens, as we are listening to Greek reggae songs! Our celebration of this uplifting popular dance music and the ways in which it has been introduced...
Nikolas Angelidis and Paisia Kramvousanou choose songs they love and bring two generations one “against” the other. The generation of the fifty years old and the generation of the twenty-somethings... A different TIME GREECE full of love for history, music and some of its legends... The options are...
On Sunday, April 21st, the show "Our Town" pays a small tribute to Nikos Kavvadias.
Guest on the show was the writer and friend of the poet, Mitsos Kasolas, who recorded many of the conversations he had with the poet about the places and ports he met. Mitsos Kasolas brings to the show a part of these...
_ You're gonna wake up one morning as the sun greets the dawn
You're gonna look around in your mind
and you're gonna find that I'm gone _
Our week-long tribute to Greek piano music ends with the imposing melodies of Yannis Spanos: “I believe in eroticism more than love. Permanent eroticism is more important than a love affair that ends, after which something else begins. Eroticism is everywhere, even in a look. In me, music prevails -...
The Waterloo of the US military and the US government, 63 years ago today in the famous Bay of Pigs. The CIA's plans to "retake" Cuba, Fidel Castro's slogan "Homeland or death", the hand-to-hand combat, the surrender of the invaders and the day after a development that shook the whole world to its foundations....
Our next stop in our week-long journey to Greek piano music involves the art of Thanos Mikroutsikos and a set of other renowned modern composers, such as Theodore Antoniou, Kyriakos Sfetsas and Periklis Koukos. A solid selection of Mikroutsikos’ piano works is to be found in the album “Dance and mem...
Tribute to the great actress and fighter Taygete Basouri. Her roles in cinema, her presence on the theatrical stage, her struggles in the Resistance, imprisonment, exile, beatings, torture. A life difficult by choice. But it brought plenty of joy and laughter through the cinema and the stage.
Nikolas...
We continue our week-long tribute to Greek piano music with an interview with highly talented classical composer Grigoris Grigoriou. Grigoriou, who holds a PhD in composition and who has spent time abroad at the prestigious St. Petersburg State Conservatory, is discussing with us issues such as the...
A unique tribute with audio documents, for the first appearance of the legendary Rolling Stones in Athens! Just four days before the April junta coup breaks out, Mick Jagger and company perform at an eventful concert that never ended... on Alexandras Avenue. Their representative threw red carnations...
Giorgos Hatzinasios was born in Thessaloniki and started piano lessons at the age of 6. After completing his studies in Greece, he moved to Paris where he studied composition, orchestration and orchestral conducting. From the 1970s onwards, he established himself as a leading art and folk composer...
The week that starts today here at GME has a more classical scent, as it explores piano versions of Greek songs or works written especially for this instrument. Today, we will be celebrating the encounter of Manos Hadjidakis with traditional and rebetiko rhythms and melodies, as it has been reflected...
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