Everyone knows bouzouki music: it's the sound of cliched touristic Greek entertainment, heard on debauched, ouzo-soaked nights in tavernas across the world. Few, however, know about this music's ...

Once an underground rebel sound, the wailing “Greek blues” known as rebetiko has been embraced by young musicians both in Greece and in the Greek diaspora, including the members of the Greek Rebetiko ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Most tourists thronging Piraeus’s ferry port outside Athens will have heard bouzouki music — the plangent, lutelike ...

ATHENS, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Over a century since it was first played at cafes and tavernas of the poor on the Greek mainland and the Greek-speaking parts of the Ottoman Empire, rebetiko, dubbed the ...

Wikipedia defines Rebetiko primarily as “a term used to designate originally disparate kinds of urban Greek folk music”. These variants have been grouped together since the 1960s, the time of the ...

2013 1 hr 24 mins Documentary, Music NR Watchlist An odyssey across the places of origin of Western civilization: Greece, subsumed by economic crisis; where the mind, the soul, and the music of its ...

Have you ever heard of rebetiko? I hadn’t either until I read David Prudhomme’s graphic novel of the same name, which traces a day and a night in the lives of a group of musicians in Athens in the ...

Rebetiko Festival will take over Melbourne Recital Centre for one day in March with two extraordinary ensembles from Greece: Pliri Ntaxei and Chrysoula K & Purpura and a collection of Greek Australian ...

The Greek musical genre rebetiko was inscribed on UNESCO’s 2017 representative list of Intangible Cultural Heritage during its annual meeting held in Jeju, Korea, Ekathimerini reported. According to ...

Rebetiko afficionados will have the opportunity to binge on rebetiko or "Greek blues", as it is known in Australia, on Saturday March the 10th in Melbourne's Recital Centre. Pliri Νtaxei, an up and ...

Markos Vamvakaris "returns" to Syros for the 2nd Rebetiko Music Festival that takes place on the Greek island of Syros from the 30th of August till the 3rd of September. Syros is the birthplace of ...

GREEK REBETIKO MUSIC RISES FROM MARGINS TO UNESCO'S LIST. Young street musicians performing rebetiko songs in central Athens, capital of Greece, on Dec 18, 2017. Over a century since it was first ...