…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…

Once upon a Lemonadika, an interview with George Makris

A full-length interview on the activities of “Parapetamenoi” given by George Makris in the e-magazine of the POLITISMOS website – MUSEUM OF GREEK HISTORY active in California. USA and has an international admission, January 2020. View the full interview here

The value of rebetiko is timeless

Interview to flash.gr and George Kiousis January 13, 2020. A presentation of the activities of the musical form of “Parapetamenoi” by Spiros Goumas, musician and master of the three-stringed bouzouki and George Makris, founder of the band. View full interview here

Μy mind is spell bound…

ERT 1 National range TV network, performing a variety of a program titled “my mind is spell bound…” 30/4/01 and 1/5/01 during a live broadcast by the researcher Panos Savvopoulos.

Τhe Odyssey ERT World

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.

Salt of the Earth “Geia sou Peraia athanate”

Salt of the Earth “Geia sou Peraia athanate” ERT-1, Sunday, February 26, 2017In February 2017, guests of Lambros Liavas in the TV show “Salt of the Earth” titled “Geia sou Peraia athanate” we presented Piraeus rebetika in a musical journey, in relation to the Piraeus related toponyms. Stelios Vamvakaris and Evelina Angelou participated in the […]

State Radio 105.8 FM

State Radio 105.8 FM on 27/4/2001, 6/2/2002, 28/12/2002 and in May 2003 on the broadcast of Panos Savopoulos in a tribute of Vangelis Papazoglou.

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and sociological approach of the development of rebetiko song, the names of the musical scales (dromoi) in rebetika, historical references to the life and work of great composers, singers and skilled players of rebetiko (Thanasis Manetas, Costas Bezos (A. Kostis), Marika Papagika, Panagiotis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