…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…

15th International Seminar-Meeting on the rebetiko July, 14-21, 2024 Skyros Island

Dear friends, This year’s musical meeting at 15th rebetiko seminar in Skyros 14-21/7/2024 once again successfully completed its destination, highlighting at the same time the immense need to continue our effort. We unfolded our hearts together, forgetting for a while our worries and various concerns. We used the vehicle of our folk music and communicated, […]

14th International Seminar-Meeting on the rebetiko July, 16-23 2023 Skyros Island, Greece

The 14th international seminar-meeting took place from 16 to 23 July 2023 in Skyros. It coincides with the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the relevant UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity and with the celebration of the “European Days of Cultural Heritage”. The international seminar-meeting on rebetiko in […]

13th Seminar- meeting 2022

13ο Διεθνές Σεμινάριο-συνάντηση για το ρεμπέτικο τραγούδι. Σκύρος, 17-24 Ιουλίου 2022

12th Seminar-Meeting 2021

After the difficult period for the whole world, created by the health crisis due to the pandemic which forced us to postpone last year’s International Rebetiko Seminar-Meeting, we decided to return to our favorite island to exchange smiles, expectations for an optimistic future and to enjoy our music in the natural environment of the island. […]

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and sociological approach of the development of rebetiko song, the names of the musical scales (dromoi) in rebetika, historical references to the life and work of great composers, singers and skilled players of rebetiko (Thanasis Manetas, Costas Bezos (A. Kostis), Marika Papagika, Panagiotis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