The show TIME IN GREECE hosts the soul of the Greek Film Archive, director Theodoros Adamopoulos and cinematographers Tasos Adamopoulos and Tasos Aronitis. We turn the calendar back sixty years ... in 1964. It was then that the short film "The Wheel" was shot by the brothers Theodoros and Nikos Adamopoulos....
The show "Journeys Basking in Greek Light" with Giannis Papoutsakis on March 14th was dedicated to Thanos Mikroutsikos, on the occasion of the 77th anniversary of his birth. We listened to his songs by the voices of: Alexiou, Mitropanos, Papakonstantinou, Dalaras, Koutra, Mitsias, Dimitriadis, Merantza,...
_ Η πόλη μας το βράδυ του Σαββάτου αλλάζει όψηΤρελαίνει και τρελαίνεται σε κάθε εποχή _ _tracklist The Isley Brothers – Ohio/Machine Gun David Bowie – Amsterdam Warren Zevon – Werewolves of London Natalie Merchant – Portofino Foxygen – San Francisco Gilbert Bécaud – Nathalie Mansfield TYA – Petite Italie They Might Be Giants – Istanbul (Not Constantinople) Τάνια Τσανακλίδου – Tarantela Devendra Banhart – Santa Maria de Feira Ryan Adams – New York, New York Rykarda Parasol – Texas Midnight Radio Σπύρος Σακκάς- Αχ Παπουαλίλη Lilipoupoli Orchestra – Tώρα που πας κι εσύ στη Λιλιπούπολη
The Rast bouzouki quartet was created in 2000, based on a joint idea of Giorgos Altis, Thanasis Vassilas, Nikos Katsikis and Pantelis Konstantinidis, four virtuosos of the bouzouki. The name of the group comes from the musical road "Rast", which belongs to the basic musical scales of the Eastern Mediterranean...
On April 13th, 2024, exactly one century will be completed since that meeting of refugees who decided in the center of Athens, at 24 Veranzerou Street, at the sporting goods store of Kostas Dimopoulos and brothers Emilios and Menelaos Ionas, to create a sports club that will bring back the memories...
The beautiful bouzouki tunes that we shall be listening to belong primarily to three albums of Christos Nikolopoulos titled Folk Passages, Roads of the East and Cyclamens of Mount Olympus. The last album, released in 1997, also hosts the fantastic Florina Brass Band. Now, today’s tracklist includes i...
"Voices and music" pays tribute to composer Dimitris Lagios.
Dimitris Lagios was born in Zakynthos on April 7th, 1952. Son of Spyros Lagios and Maria, born Tetradi, from Zakynthos. He studied piano, guitar, and music theory at the National Conservatory. His teachers were composers Michalis Vourtsis...
Thanasis Polykandriotis, son of folk master Thodoros Polykandriotis, is a great composer and bouzouki soloist as well as a dedicated teacher. He has left his mark with hundreds of compositions to his credit and has appeared in the most famous concert halls of Europe, the United States and Australia....
A magical walk in the unique beauties of Kasos. Nikolas Angelidis meets Ilias Mastropavlos, special technician and pebble designer... We travel through the eternal blue of the Dodecanesian land, learn about the amazing natural trails of Kasos which are still wild but unspoiled and we draw information...
This week here at GME is dedicated to the greatest virtuosos of Greece’s most popular musical instrument: the bouzouki! Yannis Stamatiou (“Sporos” - also known as John Stamatis) was a superb bouzouki soloist and even today, many years after his passing away in 2011, he is widely regarded as a legen...
Bouzouki instrumentals – this is the theme of our week-long tribute that starts today. And our starting point is the crème-de-la-crème of bouzouki soloists: Giannis Papaioannou, Markos Vamvakaris, Manolis Hiotis, Vasilis Tsitsanis, Giorgos Zambetas, Giorgos Mitsakis, Dimitris Stergiou, Costas Papadopoulos, Lak...
TIME IN GREECE goes back in a time and place that was stained with blood and marked our history... On this day in 1896 the multi-day militant strike mobilization of the miners broke out in Lavrion. Reacting to the inhumane working conditions, the brutal exploitation by employers and the unaccountability...
The backbone of today’s tribute to painter Theofilos is a 1976 collection of songs titled Paintings of Theofilos, written by Akos Daskalopoulos and composed by Notis Mavroudis. The songs are performed by Alexandra and Haris Galanos. Next to them, we will be listening to songs with references to Theofilos p...
A breathtaking tribute by Nikolas Angelidis on TIME IN GREECE about the massacre of civilians in Kleisoura on April 5th, 1944. All events as they unfolded frame by frame... How we got to the massacre of 280 innocent people. The battles of the guerrillas in the mountains of the region and the "reprisals"...
This week, we are taking a tour aroud the most beautiful artwork of Greek music albums and the painters behind it. After George Stathopoulos and Yannis Tsarouchis, it is time for Alekos Fassianos, his tremendously impactful international career, and his presence in Greek music albums with the artwork...
Tribute with amazing documents of the time to the conquest of the European Cup Winners' Cup by AEK on the same day in 1968. Nikolas Angelidis on TIME IN GREECE conveys frame by frame everything that happened that unforgettable night in Athens, in front of 80,000 spectators, a number that is a world...
We started with a 2-day tribute to George Stathopoulos and our next stop, today, is Yannis Tsarouchis. Tsarouchis, who was born in 1910 and died in 1989, was a modernist painter and set designer, and one of the very few Greek painters to achieve international fame. Known particularly for his homoerotic...
Painter Stathopoulos notes: “I really like Hadjidaki's music. I like Greek musicians. And I like Theodorakis, Xarchakos, Savvopoulos, Leontis, Loizos, Kouyoumtzis, and Mamagakis. These are all important artists. I listen to 90% Greek music, and I also have a 10% of foreign music that I listen t...
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