Greek Music Express: Global Rhythms – Swing – The Speakeasies Swing Band  | 23 April 2024

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 later they are back with the LP “Land of Plenty”, an album consisting of 10 songs in Swing, Jazz, Blues and Dixieland style. In 2020, they released the LP “Uproaring Twenties”. The Speakeasies’ Swing Band! are Christos Papadopoulos, Panos Karnoutsos, Giannis Ntalianis, Caterina Sisinni, Manolis Stamatiadis, Grigoris Oikonomou and Panos Voulgarakis.