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I Will Sing You Seven Songs
Gianna Triantafylli
SCHEDULE VOICE OF GREECE
Greek Music Express: New Wave, part 3: Giannis Spanos, the pioneer | 14 May 2025
This week, here at GME, is dedicated to New Wave – Neo Kyma, a genre filled with tenderness and innocence, reminiscent of the Greek summer and its tales of love and emotion. Today, we will be celebrating the massive legacy of a composer who is widely regarded as the founding father of New Wave: melodist G...
Greek Music Express: New Wave, part 2: Keti Homata – Giorgos Zografos | 13 May 2025
Today’s GME focuses on probably the two most characteristic voices of the New Wave, Giorgos Zografos and Keti Homata. Both marked the evolution of this style with their unique timbres and sensitivity. And, of course, it is no coincidence that the greatest creators of Neo Kyma, such as Linos Kokkotos, G...
Irregular Notes tribute to Nikos Gatsos | 12 May 2025
A show with songs we loved, melodies that awaken memories, tributes to significant creators, mainly from the Greek music scene, while also featuring expressions of jazz and global musical culture. The journey, the milestones, and the people who left their mark. From Attik and Souyioul, to Xylina Spathia and Ypogea Revmata, as well as the greats of jazz, from Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington to Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis.
The Elves of Tradition: Mother in traditional song | 12 May 2025
As part of the Mother's Day celebration, "The Elves of Tradition" present a heartfelt tribute to the figure of the Mother through traditional song — honoring her in all her forms: the mother who gave us life, Mother Earth who sustains and nourishes us, and the Divine Mother who embraces us with her l...
Greek Music Express: New Wave, part 1: The contribution of Giannis Glezos | 12 May 2025
The week that starts today, here at GME, is dedicated to New Wave (Neo Kyma). This is a genre replete with softness and emotion, which marked the Greek song of the mid-1960s and the early 1970s, and disappeared as abruptly as it emerged. Today, we will be exploring the ingenuity of a composer who remained...
Journeys Basking in Greek Light: Tribute to Mother’s Day | 11 May 2025
On May 11th, the show “Journeys Basking in Greek Light” with Giannis Papoutsakis presented a heartfelt two-hour tribute to Mother’s Day. The program featured moving poems by Vlachos, Markoras, Polemis, and Sperantzas, along with beloved songs dedicated to motherhood, performed by voices such as Kazan...
Greek Music Express: Hasapiko, part V: The ladies sing | 09 May 2025
In today’s GME, we will be enjoying some of Greece’s greatest female voices singing timeless masterpieces along the dance rhythm of hasapiko. From Eleni Roda to Melina Tanagri, from Rita Sakellariou to Eleni Tsaligopoulou, and from Dimitra Galani to Maria Dimitriadi, we are confronted with the most uni...
May ’36: Blood, resistance, and remembrance | 09 May 2025
The mother of the striking worker Tasos Tousis, mourning over her dead son. An image like the Epitaph... Yannis Ritsos conveys the grief, the spiritual grandeur, the promise of resistance... Mikis Theodorakis creates one of his greatest achievements...
Greek Music Express: Hasapiko, part IV: Towards syrtaki and hasaposerviko | 08 May 2025
Hasapiko, syrtaki, hasaposerviko – three dance rhythms that are different but all belong to the same family. Three rich rhythmic universes in which some of the nicest Greek songs are contained. Today, here at GME, we will be listening to samples from all three dance styles, highlighting their proximity a...
Greek Music Express: Hasapiko, part ΙΙΙ: The folk songs | 07 May 2025
Terzis, Dalaras, Mitropanos, Voskopoulos, Poulopoulos, Kalantzis, Bithikotsis, Kalogiannis, Dionysiou, Korakakis, The Kids from Patra, Makedonas, Theoharidis. Are you sure you can handle all of these amazing folk voices in just a single radio broadcast? I hope so, because these are precisely some of...
Greek Music Express: Hasapiko, part II: The instrumentals | 06 May 2025
Today’s GME is filled with the beautiful “penies” of bouzouki playing hasapiko. This is the dance rhythm of some of the greatest and most memorable tunes, a robust rhythmic foundation of immense beauty. Our track list includes creations of masters of Greek composition such as Giorgos Mitsakis, Giann...
A Football Pitch That Floats | 06 May 2025
The show that loves to surprise you is here again... With Nikolas Angelidis and Grigoris Nanis at the microphones,“Listen & See, Look & Hear” brings you fresh stories and unexpected twists: What’s it like to play football on a floating pitch — right in the middle of the sea? Timers in publ...
Irregular Notes with Stelios Ioannidis | 05 May 2025
“Irregular Notes” with Stelios Ioannidis presents a special tribute to Nikos Gounaris, the beloved singer with the “velvety voice,” who passed away on this day in 1965. The broadcast revisits the life and legacy of the iconic composer, lyricist, and entertainer who defined the 195...
Greek Music Express: Hasapiko, part 1: The rebetiko originals | 05 May 2025
The week that starts today, we will be celebrating a landmark dance rhythm that has been part of some of our greatest songs and that is truly adored by the lovers of Greek music, dancers and non-dances alike, in Greece and abroad. An entire week dedicated to hasapiko? Sure, as this is the foundation...
Bobby Sands: A Symbol of the Struggle for Freedom | 05 May 2025
The story of a man whose ultimate sacrifice became a song, a symbol, and a rallying cry for people across the world. On this day in 1981, Bobby Sands died after 66 days on hunger strike, protesting the inhumane conditions in British prisons. A member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Sands gave his...
Greek Music Express: Songs for May | 02 May 2025
May is an emotionally intense month, symbolising the passage from Spring to Summer, the blooming of nature and of our inner worlds. It is a month of protest and struggles, including the struggles of the working class that we talked about yesterday. But it is also a month of love, of passion, of liberation...
Tribute to the legendary rebetis Dimitris Gogos | 02 May 2025
The story of the legendary rebetis Dimitris Gogos, who became widely known by his nickname “Bayianteras.” How did he get this unusual name—and why did it stick? A look at the life and path of a true old-school mangas, a man of grit and style from a bygone era. We explore the music of Bayianteras along...
Greek Music Express: Celebrating International Workers’ Day with Greek labour songs | 01 May 2025
May 1 at GME means remembering the workers’ struggles that secured the social and economic rights enjoyed by our societies today. And it also means celebrating the identity and culture of the working classes, old and new. A part of this identity consists of the Greek labour songs that reflected an e...