Throughout the week that ends today, here at GME, we turned to the music of Epirus, a core type of Greek traditional music, and its main instrument: the Greek clarinet or clarino. Vassilis Soukas, Tassos Halkias, Giorgos Mangas, Manos Achalinotopoulos and Vassilis Saleas are the clarino instrumentalists that we have been listening to, at the crossroads of tradition, improvisation and innovation. The reason for our tribute: the loss of soloist Petroloukas Halkias in June, at the age of 90. Today, we turn to the immense work and legacy of this hero of mountain demotic music.
Produced and presented by Hercules Economou