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is fully occupied and “drifted” by love
and with bouzouki and guitars
sings softly and sweet like a bird…

16th international rebetiko seminar-meeting in Skyros Island, July 13-20, 2025

Dear friends,

The international seminar-meeting on rebetiko in Skyros started in 2009 and all these years has a basic volunteer support group, the musical group “Parapetamenoi”. At the same time, it is framed and supported by friends and all those who have participated all these years in its events. Since then, this voluntary effort takes place every year in the third week of July in Skyros Island with the cooperation of the Municipality of Skyros and Skyros Shipping Co. (SNE), the Cultural Association of Skyros “Anemoessa”, the Faltaits Museum and the local community. This year the 16th international seminar-meeting on Rebetiko realized 13-20 July 2025. The framework for organizing and implementing this voluntary initiative has been unchanged for 16 years to date.

The program included:

•   Opening meeting with the participants in the atrium of the Faltaits Museum with a treat offer by the Municipality of Skyros on Sunday 13/7/2025 9 pm.

•   Four-hour daily morning rebetiko lessons from Monday to Friday 10-2 pm. in the hall of the club “Anemoessa” (former retirement home), located in Chora, Skyros.

•   Open to the public afternoon speeches in the same place.

•   Music nights in the picturesque taverns of the island.

•  Musical event with rebetika songs and dances at the square of Chora on Friday 18/7/2025 9 pm., in collaboration with the Municipality of Skyros, with the participants of the seminar and the dance department of “Anemoessa”.https://www.facebook.com/groups/321607494568554

•  Concert on Saturday 19/7/2025 12 pm. at the place of municipal council of the Municipality of Skyros with live streaming https://youtu.be/ahA6FqbDmfM?si=YCp89lWWoa9LbmYu

The proceedings of 16th rebetiko seminar you can read to the following link: https://www.rebetikoseminar.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Praktika_16_2025.pdf

George Makris and Spiros Goumas

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Proceedings of the rebetiko seminar-meetings in Skyros

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and sociological approach of the development of rebetiko song, the names of the musical scales (dromoi) in rebetika, historical references to the life and work of great composers, singers and skilled players of rebetiko (Thanasis Manetas, Costas Bezos (A. Kostis), Marika Papagika, Panagiotis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.