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…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…

Tag: rebetiko seminar in Skyros

17th international rebetiko seminar in Skyros Island July, 12-19/ 2026

Dear friends, Suddenly, we wonder how almost 20 years have passed since a small group, united by their love for rebetiko, started to give shape and substance to the idea of a musical gathering for rebetiko in Skyros. The undertaking was big and difficult because having an idea is not enough. An idea can certainly […]

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 […]

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and sociological approach of the development of rebetiko song, the names of the musical scales (dromoi) in rebetika, historical references to the life and work of great composers, singers and skilled players of rebetiko (Thanasis Manetas, Costas Bezos (A. Kostis), Marika Papagika, Panagiotis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