Notis Mavroudis and Panagiotis Margaris wrote a major chapter of the history of classical guitar recordings in Greece with the Café del’ Art album series. In 2005, they released Café del’ Art 5, dedicated to the melodies of rebetiko masters Vasilis Tsitsanis and Markos Vamvakaris. The album features guest appearances by soprano Sonia Theodoridou and bouzouki soloist Thanasis Polykandriotis, next to the explosive guitar fluency of Mavroudis and Margaris. Now, in October 1999, Nena Venetsanou represented Greece at the Festival of Sacred Songs held in Marseille. There, accompanied by three musicians, she sang a set of 14 rebetiko songs to the rhythm of the zeibekiko. The following year, she recorded these songs in the studio, which were released on an album titled “Zeibekiko – Folk Prayers”.
Produced and presented by Hercules Economou