…Even our heart suffers and pains
is fully occupied and “drifted” by love
and with bouzouki and guitars
sings softly and sweet like a bird…
From the broadcast of ERT «Odyssey» June 17, 2012 with Dora Anagnostopoulou. George Makris and Spyros Goumas were invited in an interview about the 4th Rebetiko Seminar in Skyros, July 15-22, 2012.
June 19 and 20, 2011 at the hall of “Parnassos Philological Association”. The aim of the presentation was focused on the unity of Greek music
Press publica: George Makris, Spyros Goumas: Tribute to the great folk composer Dimitris-Gogos Bayanderas by George Kiousis, November 24, 2018 View the full interview here
At the portokaliradio program “Memories of Sounds” 4-2-2016 Kostas Giannakopoulos hosted George Makris on the occasion of the event “Footprints of rebetiko in Piraeus neighborhoods”.
Two-hour radio interview at “105.5 in red” by Thanasis Lazaridis 26-7-2019 with talk and live rebetiko music with “Parapetamenoi”
Tribute: “The woman in rebetiko and folk song”. Organized by the General Secretariat for Gender Equality and the Equality Research Center. With the bouzouki solist
Interview on “Rebetika of War and Occupation” by George Kousis in press publica October 25, 2018 and October 22, 2019 View the full interview here
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Proceedings of the rebetiko seminar-meetings in Skyros are posted on the website of the seminar. Among others you can find a historical and sociological approach of the development of rebetiko song, the names of the musical scales (dromoi) in rebetika, historical references to the life and work of great composers, singers and skilled players of rebetiko (Thanasis Manetas, Costas Bezos (A. Kostis), Marika Papagika, Panagiotis Tountas, George Mitsakis, Giannis Papaioannou, Costas Kaplanis), even for not famous but not less important musicians of the interwar period (Kostas Faltaits, Grigoris Asikis, Dimitris Atraidis, Giakoumis Montanaris, Costas Tzovenos, Stavros Pantelidis) but also personal information for the not famous Urban musicians.
Historical data for Mortes, Koutsavakia and Magkes. You can also find Fado and rebetiko social relationships, an interesting approach titled “women in rebetiko” by the rebetiko researcher Gail Holst-Warhaft, an approach to the dances of 9, information about the flowering of rebetiko in Piraeus, the imprints of rebetiko in the neighborhoods of Piraeus, the growth of rebetiko in Thessaloniki and of course the rebetiko in Finland as well as personal revelations how the rebetiko touches our soul.