Domna Samiou

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Domna Samiou

Biography

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Epic Songs of Warriors and Heroes

Songs that narrate heroic tales inspired by the popular oral traditions

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Songs of History and Heroes

The retelling of fine, magnificent, heroic deeds from the past

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Kaneloriza

Songs and tunes in seven beat and nine beat rythms with erotic and sorrowful lyrics and respective melodies

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Folk Fables in Song

An album with 34 rare and priceless songs

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The Great North Wind and other traditional songs for children

Double CD and DVD includes booklet in Greek and English

Dedicated to the kids, for their initiation in traditional music since as time goes by these nice songs gradually disappear. This collection is a good companion to those who want to offer their children a hint of another yet magical world, which is touching us like a cool refreshing breeze.

Songs of History and Heroes

Double CD includes booklet in greek and english

The retelling of fine, magnificent, heroic deeds from the past has always been, for all the nations of the world, the thread they follow to their future and the weft of which this future is woven. Austere and Doric, as stern as the heroes they describe, the songs called Historic could function as chronicles, bu...

Simon Karas

Musicologist and researcher of the Greek music tradition and heritage

Simon Karas (1903-1999) was a musicologist and researcher of the Greek music tradition and heritage. His lifelong research is considered by many as a key factor in the preservation of traditional music, which he recorded throughout Greece. He was born in 1903 in the village of Lepreon (former Strovitsi), of th...

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From Our Music Archive

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Songs for the Grape Harvesting

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Into the Vineyard (Thessaly)
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My Broad-Leaved Vine (Peloponnese)
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Song of the Grape Harvest from Corfou
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Vendemma (Santorini)
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Between Two Mountains (Thrace)
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Three Black-Eyed Girls (Thessaly)

Selections

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A tale of a life

Domna Samiou remembers

Her displaced parents, the refugee shack, her childhood, her mentor Simon Karas and the encounter with radio and discography

Concerts

A bee goes by

Odeon of Herodes Atticus, 2001. A concert for children performed by children with traditional songs, dances and games

Concerts

The known and the unknown Domna

The Athens Concert Hall, 1998. A tribute concert for her seventieth birthday with guest performances by close friends

Her work

Musical Travelogue

1976-77 Greek Public TV. Domna Samiou brings to light Greek traditions village by village, song by song, dance by dance

Collecting folk songs

Songs from Skiathos

The abundant material collected by Domna during her travels to the island enriched her music collections with unique songs

Discography

Wedding Songs

An unreleased collection of 34 songs for the wedding procession, the feast, the bride, the groom, the in-laws and the guests

Concerts

Carnival songs

Thessaloniki Concert Hall, 2003. A show with dramatised carnival songs and folk events from various parts of Greece

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The Association

About us

Founded in 1981 by Domna Samiou, its main aim is the preservation and dissemination of Greek folk music

Discography

A selection from the album releases of the Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Epic Songs of Warriors and Heroes

The Great North Wind and Other Traditional Songs for Children

Domna Samiou At Megaron, The Athens Concert Hall

Carnival Songs

Songs of History and Heroes

With Yehudi Menuhin

From the shoot of the French TV show "Le Grand Échiquier", Kaisariani, Athens, 1977

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Mathios Balabanis, Kyriakos Kostoulas, Vassilis Katrakos, Domna Samiou and Yehudi Menuhin

With Yehudi Menuhin © Domna Samiou Archive

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Yehudi Menuhin plays the traditional Constantinopolitan tune "Karotsieris" (the cart-driver)

With Yehudi Menuhin © Domna Samiou Archive

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Mathios Balabanis and Nikos Stefanidis

With Yehudi Menuhin © Domna Samiou Archive

Yehudi Menuhin watching the kanun master Nikos Stefanidis performing

With Yehudi Menuhin © Domna Samiou Archive