
Songs of Asia Minor with Domna Samiou

Information
An Asia Minor tribute concert.
- Period: 08 & 09/03/2005
- Location: The Athens Concert Hall, Hall of the Friends of Music
- Production: The Athens Concert Hall Organisation
An Asia Minor tribute concert.
It was repeated the following day.
Collaborators
- Singer: Domna Samiou, Thanassis Gekas, Glykeria, Zacharias Karounis, Katerina Papadopoulou, Ilias Yfantidis
- First Chanter: Lykourgos Angelopoulos
- Choir: Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association Choir, The Greek Byzantine Choir
- Clarinet: Thodoris Georgopoulos
- Flute: Thodoris Georgopoulos
- Violin: Nikos Oikonomidis
- Constantinopolitan lyra: Socrates Sinopoulos
- Pontic lyra: Ilias Yfantidis
- Kanun: Panos Dimitrakopoulos
- Bowed tambouras: Evgenios Voulgaris
- Constantinopolitan lute: Socrates Sinopoulos
- Saz: Evgenios Voulgaris
- Oud: Kyriakos Tapakis
- Lute: Kyriakos Tapakis
- Percussion: Vangelis Karipis, Andreas Pappas
- Dancers: 'Perperouna' Dance Group, Cultural Pontiac Association of Ano Liossia 'Trapezounta', Dance Group of the N. Erythrea Cultural Club
- Supervising director: Daphne Djaferis
- Movement consultant: Zoe N. Margari
- Assistant director: Kostas Mylonas
See also


Song
A Little Shorty (Meli, Erythrae)
A little shorty, a short little man,
aides pouli mou aides, had a beautiful wife
and the whole neighbourhood, aman aman, wa...


Song
Arabas (A Horse-Cart Is Passing By)
A horse-cart's passing by, raising clouds of dust,
pull up your little dress 'cause it will gather dust.
A horse-cart's pas...

Song
For a Whole Seven Weeks...
For a whole seven weeks, my love, I did not speak to you;
because it was the time of Lent, I feared I’d make you sin.
I can...


Song
How beautiful our bride
Our bride is beautiful and I've no need of words
Her sweet cheeks are red as roses.
I'm telling you so hear my words
Take ...

Song
If I want black eyes
If I want black eyes, I have them in hand:
They're my darling’s, my other half’s.
Douneme, doumanaki, douneme, vai, vai,
D...


Song
The Lament of the Virgin (Marmaras, Asia Minor)
Holy Week Lament
...
A voice from heaven could be heard, a good archangel speaking.
My lady, that’s enough of prayers, enough of doing penan...

Song
The Lament of the Virgin (Reis-Dere)
Holy Week Lament
...
– O holy John, forerunner and baptizer of my son,
where is my much beloved son, your own beloved teacher?
– My lips wo...

Song
The Water of Life
Olmaz
The water of Life flows from your sweet eyes.
I asked you for a little but you didn’t give me any to drink.
Impossible, my ...

Song
The Young Meliots
Two young Meliots got up to dance the syrtos,
they will ask us for songs and commendations.
Come, let us go over there and ...

Song
Together With My Aunt Kontylo (Explicit)
Together with my aunt Kontýlo I made towards the mill one day,
biyirné-biyirné-biyi-biyi-biyirné.
I elbow her, she elbows m...

Song
Yio Mario
Net casting a-plenty, rigging and rigging again
And Nikolis was shouting: ‘One more rope’.
The knot of the net is off to se...