…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…

“The Nostalgy of a Rebetis”

“The Nostalgy of a Rebetis” (2013-2017) Historiography of our rebetiko and folk music with a combination of pantomime and live music with the meeting of the actors of the street play group “Pezo-dromos” and the rebetiko band “Parapetamenoi”. The historic meeting of two musical genres, due to the Asia Minor Disaster: Piraeus and Smyrna, from […]

“Opou Giorgos ke malama”

“Opou Giorgos ke malama” A theatrical-musical performance dedicated to the poet-composer George Mitsakis in a dramaturgical treatment by George Makris based on the book “George Mitsakis: Autobiography” by Nikos Economou. Performed from March 2017 to December 2017 at the Multicultural center “dieleusis”. Directed by Annie Loulou. Actors Annie Loulou and Aristogeiton Kotsas. Musicians: Spiros Goumas […]

“The Minore of Amerika”

“The Minore of Amerika” (2018-2019) A musical-theatrical performance that records and sings the timeless adventure of our people, with songs that accompanied Greek immigrants to America at the turn of the century. Multicultural center “dieleusis”. Written and directed by George Makris, music editor and song cover Spiros Goumas.The actors were Chrisi Gerardi, Giorgos Makris, Spyros […]

“Once Upon at Lemonadika”

“Once Upon at Lemonadika” (2019-2020) a story on the “Lemonadika” square of Piraeus with poor devils, rebetes, with ambitions of simple, everyday people without colours and cosmetics, with the simultaneous presence of the rebetiko song as a coherent element of the play. Multicultural center “dieleusis”. The play was written and directed by George Makris. Music […]

Rebetiko Festival in Helsinki

We participated in the Rebetiko Festival in Helsinki September 28 & 29, 2019. We had been invited by the Hellenic Embassy and the Hellenic Association of Finland. Our group “Parapetamenoi” participated with a speech about the historiography of rebetiko given by G. Makris, a seminar about rebetiko given by Spyros Goumas and supported by our […]

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and sociological approach of the development of rebetiko song, the names of the musical scales (dromoi) in rebetika, historical references to the life and work of great composers, singers and skilled players of rebetiko (Thanasis Manetas, Costas Bezos (A. Kostis), Marika Papagika, Panagiotis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