Throughout the week that starts today, here at GME, we shall be enjoying recordings that highlight the blending of different traditions of popular song – unexpected encounters of pop artists or heavy folk vocalists singing art songs, and so on. Kelly Kellekidou sings Stamatis Kraounakis, Filippos Nikolaou covers Apostolos Kaldaras, Katerina Stanisi elevates a Giorgos Zambetas classic, and Natassa Theodoridou puts her voice to the test of Mimis Plessas’ repertoire. This is the struggle of the …opposites: Heavy folk, light folk, pop folk, art folk. This is, in other words, the overcoming of established conceptual borders and labels.
Produced and presented by Hercules Economou