August 5 / Friday
Dimitris MystakidisWith protagonists the folk guitar and the unique aura of rebetiko repertoire, virtuoso Dimitris Mystakidis will share with us a performance of low tones and skeletal simplicity - a performance as appropriate to our times and space. Atmospheric covers andrearrangements of well known urban folk songs which are narrating, reminiscing, grumbling, outlawing, falling in love, traveling and ‘travel’ us. Gems of our folk tradition, performed by the special “finger style” technique and the high mastery of the artist, are getting updated and strike straight to our hearts! |
Concert Time / 21.00 Ticket Price / 7 euros
August 6 / Saturday
Concert Time / 21.00 Ticket Price / 7 euros
August 7 / Sunday
Kostas Makrygiannakis / Theofilos Sotiriadis
On LacrimaeKostas and Theofilos have been working together as a duo since 2008. Since then they have performed in many festival and great venues, such as Onassion STG, Thessaloniki Concert Hall, Loopfestival - Cyprus, The Music Village Festival and Guitar Plus Festival among others. Their repertoire varies from original pieces for guitar and saxophone to specific arrangements made for various types of guitar and sax. The duo has collaborated with distinguished musicians and composers and during 2016 has been engaged for concerts in Greece, Austria, Cyprus, Germany, Switzerland and Finland. Their first album named “on lacrimae” was launched in March 2015. |
Concert Time / 21.00 Ticket Price / 7 euros
August 12/ Friday
Travelling...Our love for beautiful songs united us. Songs that make you smile, remember, sigh for, dream… travel. Starting point in 2013 in Volos and the route sort in real kilometres (Volos, Pilio, Thessaloniki) but the music kilometres took us to the other side of the world. Next stop Moni Paou. Fill your music suitcase and travel with us with songs from all over the world (Greece, Balkan, Mediterranean, Europe, Latin America, Middle East). Eva Dimokοsotula / Voice, Violin Giannos Nikolaou / Guitar, Voice Achilleas Toloudis / Contrabass, Recorder, Μantoline |
Concert Time / 21.00 Ticket Price / 7 euros
August 13 / Saturday
Duo GoliardiThe greek duo was founded in 2003 from the recorder player Dimitris Kountouras and the accordionist Konstantinos Raptis. With that particular combination of instruments, without any precedent at all, the duo is approaching a wide range of repertoire from the music of Guillaume de Machaut up to contemporary music and from historical 16th century tarantelas to Bach ‘s organ music.The aim of the duo is on the one hand to express earlier music through a different sound perspective always faithful to the musical text and spirit (obviously with different instrumentation) and on the other hand to provide new repertoire for that combination. The Duo Goliardi has collaborated with important composers of the younger generation and premered many pieces especially written for it.Until now the Duo appeared successfully in many concerts in Vienna, Hannover, Athens, Thessaloniki, Riga (7th International Bach Festival of Latvia) etc. Dimitris Kountouras / recorder Konstantinos Raptis / concert accordion (bajan) |
Concert Time / 21.00 Ticket Price / 7 euros
August 14 / Sunday
Mariantzela Chatzistamatiou / Nikos Panagiotidis
Baroque monologues & songsMariangela Chatzistamatiou was born and raised in Hellas (Greece). She is particualry fond of performing vocal music of the 17th and 18th centuries as well as compositions of 20th century and living composers. Her paternal grandmother introduced her to singing and to traditional songs of Asia Minor. While still a student, Mariangela was an active singer member of various traditional music groups and travelled around Greece, Eastern Europe and the Balkans participating in folk music and dance festivals. These experiences fueled her desire to be a professional singer, and her curiosity to expand her horizons led her to a life-long study of music. She has been an active participant in various productions of opera, oratorio and in chamber music concerts in Greece, Italy, France, the United States and Thailand. Mariangela recently returned from Thailand where she was a member of the faculty of the College of Music, Mahidol University in Bangkok, teaching classical voice and language related courses for singers. Mariangela has also been member of various chamber music ensembles in Europe, the United States, and Southeast Asia with whom she performs regularly. She holds Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Classical Vocal Performance from the College of Musical Arts in Bowling Green State University (Ohio, USA), where she studied with American tenor Christopher Scholl and Metropolitan Opera soprano Myra Merritt. Prior to her studies in the Unites States, Mariangela studied classical voice at the Modern Conservatory of Thessaloniki, Greece, with soprano Katerina Karatza and coach Giorgos Vagianos, Italian Language and Culture at Università per Stranieri di Perugia, Italy, and French language at Cours de Civilisation Française de la Sorbonne in Paris, France. Was born in Athens, Greece and studied the classical guitar with Dimitri Fampas and Roberto Aussel, as well as Harmony, Counterpoint & Fugue. In the Postgraduate Early Music Course in the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, he studied the Renaissance lute, theorbo, Baroque lute and Basso Continuo with Nigel North as his principal tutor; he has also followed masterclasses tought by famous international professors in Greece and abroad. As a guitarist and lutenist, he has appeared in numerous concerts both as a soloist and basso continuo player, with Chamber Ensembles in Greece and abroad, and Orchestras in Baroque repertoire. He was the editor and director of the world premiere revival of Jacopo Peri 's "Euridice" in the Delphi Festival and is credited in several recordings. He has also worked with many well known Greek song composers and theatrical venues in live appearances, Radio/TV broadcasts, stage music and LP/CD recordings, produced the soundtracks for TV documentaries and run his own Radio broadcasts in various stations, notably State Radio 3 (ERA). He has been teaching the guitar and theoretical music subjects (including Theory, Harmony, History, Form and Analysis) as well as Early instruments and continuo for many years, in Conservatoires and Music Schools, additionally often offering Masterclasses on Renaissance and Baroque Music interpretation. |
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Concert Time / 21.00 Ticket Price / 7 euros
August 19 / Friday
The truth is two / Maria ThoidouThe truth is hard it is transparent it is precious The truth is two or three It is an answer with many questions... Maria Thoidou's songs about truth, love, time, the little and big moments In between traditional and retro, songs from films, songs from other countries... Performed by Drasta, which consists of Philippos Kostavelis, Agamemnon Mardas and James Willy Drasta means observer-seeker of the truth Singing by Maria Thoidou and Elsa Mouratidou This is about the presentation of the singer-song-writer's new CD of her own music and lyrics. |
Concert Time / 21.00 Ticket Price / 7 euros
August 20 / Saturday
Chanomai giati remvazo[They took and sung a drink like wine wanting to tell us that in our best moments logical reasoning is stopping ] Aristophanis,Mnasalkas Sikionios, Li Tai Po Omar Khayyam, Vasilis Nikolaidis, Agathi Dimitrouka Georgios Filippakis, Xaris G.Kavallieratos Maria Thoidou, Dora Baka / voices Barbara Sauter / violin, vocals Charis Kavallieratos / guitar Markellos Chryssicopoulos / cembalo Michalis Soulakis / doublebass music Georgios Filippakis, Charis G. Kavallieratos |
Concert Time / 21.00 Ticket Price / 9 euros
August 21 / Sunday
Balloon RougeBallon rouge is a jazz manouche band formed in April 2016. Over the last years, George Glavas and Spiros Tsilofitis have been performing live at various venues in Lamia and Athens, including the “Djangofest Athens 2014”, constantly evolving sound-wise. Nevertheless, they wanted to add some extra colours to their sound. That happened when Eva Dimokostοula and Dimitris Pihas joined them and the Ballon Rouge quarter was born. They can make you swing, give you the blues, or even make you fall in love and relax. Just listen to some of their own ear-catching compositions and let them carry you away. George Glavas / guitar, vocals Spiros Tsilofitis / guitar Eva Dimokostοula / violin, vocals Dimitris Pihas / double bass |
Concert Time / 21.00 Ticket Price / 7 euros
August 26 / Friday
Concert Time / 21.00 Ticket Price / 7 euros
August 27 / Saturday
Lyceum Club of Greek Women, VolosThe Lyceum Club of Greek Women, Volos Branch, is one of the oldest women’s clubs in the area of Volos and Thessaly, celebrating its 96th anniversary this year. The Club’s educational activity on Greek Dance classes, which are attended by both young children and adults, is of great cultural importance. Overall, their work includes musical and dancing shows, tributes to the Greek popular tradition and performances abroad. Some of the Club’s international festival participations are: Astural – Swicherland 1969, Pont De Sallars – France 1970, Argentan – France 1971, Lemesos – Cyprus, 1973, Mediteranean Games – Algeria 1975, Gratz – Austria, 1976, Glveland – England 1980, Fribourg – Switzerland 1982, Pafos- Cyprus 1984, Pleven – Bulgaria 1985, Rondez – France 1987, Istanbul Turkey 1987, Orense – Spain, 1988 , Nantes – France 1989 ,Hungary 1990, Sicily Italia 1992, Gratz – Austria 1993, Leman’s – France 1993, Fribourg – Switzerland 1994, Karpinone – Italy 1997, Pitesti- Romania 1998, Sevilla –Spain 2000, Cairo – Egypt 2002, Burgas Bulgaria 2007, Pissouri Cyprus 2008, Bursa – Turkey 2009, Varna Bulgaria 2010, Bratislava - Slovakia 2011, Galatsi – Romania 2013, Belgrade - Serbia 2014, Belgrade- Serbia 2015, Paralimni – Cyprus 2015 etc. |
Concert Time / 21.00 Free Entrance
August 28 / Sunday
Bouche FerméeBouche Fermée is an ensemble that aims to create «images», through mainly, but not limited to, music of the European cinema. The ensemble was founded and first appeared in Thessaloniki. The repertoire mainly includes foreign and Greek composers’ film music, such as Manos Hadjidakis, Yann Tiersen, Ennio Morricone, René Aubry, Wim Mertens, John Williams, Alan Silvestri, Nino Rota, Astor Piazzolla, Zbigniew Preisner. Through bold orchestrations, with closed mouths (bouche fermée = closed mouth), the ensemble introduces big screen’s music pieces to the audience. With music being their main component, «Bouche Fermée» penetrate into the mood of each film, excerpts of which are shared with the audience. The orchestrations are an original work of Maria Gouvali, whose compositions are also included in the repertoire of Bouche Fermée. Dora Alexiadou / violin Maria Gouvali / saxophone Stavroula Mavrou / guitar Iro Menegou / piano Panos Bakalis / accordeon |
Concert Time / 21.00 Ticket Price / 7 euros