…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…
POSPLA street market sellers strike Concert at Syntagma Square on May 2, 2014 with the “Parapetamenoi”
A tribute to the bouzouki master Spiros Goumas organized by Paris Mitsou in the music scene “1002 nights” March 19, 2013 with “Parapetamenoi” band.
Thanasis Lazaridis “Efsyn” newspaper 3-8-2019. View the full interview here
Presentation of the music group of “Parapetamenoi” and live recording in the music bar “Makari”. TVC (private TV channel) 27/1/2005. in the program of George
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
On Saturday 23/4/22 12.00-1400 Themis Rodamitis and George Makris in the radio show of Themis Rodamitis “Our city” of “Voice of Greece” present the journey of Greek music in America that accompanied the Greek immigrants to their difficult journey in the late 19th and first half of the 20th century. Do not miss it!
In March 2019, a musical tribute was held for the Greek musician from Constantinople Gregory Asikis entitled “Blooming path your Music …” at the “Underflow
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and sociological approach of the development of rebetiko song, the names of the musical scales (dromoi) in rebetika, historical references to the life and work of great composers, singers and skilled players of rebetiko (Thanasis Manetas, Costas Bezos (A. Kostis), Marika Papagika, Panagiotis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.