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Maria Kouskousi
Biographical Note
Maria Kouskousi was born in 1898 in Reisdere, Erythraea, Asia Minor. After the Catastrophe of 1922 she settled in the village of Agios Dimitrios, Lemnos, where she died in 1994. Domna Samiou met her and recorded songs of the Erythraea Peninsula tradition, in 1973.
Songs
Asia Minor Erythraea, Reisdere Fable Song (Ballad)
A Maid from Vrontados (The Best-Woman Who Ended up a Bride)
Μια κόρη Βρονταδούσαινα
A maid from Vrontados sat weaving,
her loom in full song to the shuttle’s beat
when a bird flew down and perched on it.
It...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Reisdere Holy Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song
The Lament of the Virgin (Reis-Dere) (Holy Week Lament)
Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Pεΐς Ντερέ)
...
– O holy John, forerunner and baptizer of my son,
where is my much beloved son, your own beloved teacher?
– My lips wo...
Albums
Easter Songs
Singer
CD
Folk Fables in Song
Singer,
Informant (source of the song)
CD