Domna Samiou
Biographical Note
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Songs
Macedonia Kavala, Nikisiani Love Song
A Blue Dove
Μια γαλάζια περιστέρα
A blue dove,
oh, a blue dove flew by.
Flying from mountain to mountain
she was searching for her mate.
My love so far awa...
Macedonia Historical Song
A Brave Young Lad Set Out
A brave young lad set out for Macedonia,
where Pavlos men was gathering,
men in whom the spirit of Twenty One lived on.
– ...
Cyclades Paros Fable Song (Ballad)
A Fair Maid Did Sing
Μια λυγερή τραγούδησε
A fair maid did sing out in the moonlight,
but the gentle wind took her song
and swept it out to sea
and every boat that h...
Central Greece Euboea, Agios Dimitrios Fable Song (Ballad)
A Fair Maid Did Sing
Κόρη ξανθή τραγούδησε
A fair maid sang up upon a rope bridge,
but the bridge collapsed, and the river stood still.
And the river spirit came to h...
Thessaly Magnesia, Trikeri Fable Song (Ballad)
A Fair Trikeriotissa
A fair Trikeriotissa, a comely Trikeri girl,
is mistress of a silver loom that has an ivory heddle.
As she spooled threads ...
Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Historical Song
A Great Command
And the king did command
and ’twas a great command:
fleet and admiral were to quit the land.
By the Lord’s command and the...
Sporades Skiathos Fable Song (Ballad)
A Little Shorty (Skiathos)
Ένας κοντός κοντούτσικος (Σκιάθος)
A short little man had a beautiful wife.
The whole neighbourhood was jealous, and all the land
and a pasha, a pasha envied ...
Propontis Table Song Fable Song (Ballad)
A Maid Was Singing (The Wife Scorned)
Κοράσιν ετραγούδαγε
A maid was singing in a high-walled palace.
The wind swept her voice out to sea
and every ship that heard it reefed its sai...
Propontis Table Song Fable Song (Ballad), Immigration Song
A Maid Was Singing Longingly
A maid was singing longingly inside a high-walled palace,
her voice was caught up on the breeze and carried off to seaward,
...
Propontis Peramos Fable Song (Ballad)
A Maid Would Have Her Way
Κουράσιν εβουλήθηκε
A maid would go
would go a-strolling
and then go back again.
She called her neighbours together
yes, by Saint George
and...
Asia Minor Fable Song (Ballad)
A Maid from Evripο
Μια κόρη από την Εύριπου
A maid from Evripo sought to set sail,
she sought to make passage.
She sought to make the passage to the far shore
and pai...
Eastern Aegean Chios Fable Song (Ballad)
A Trader Made His Way
Πραματευτής κατέβαινε
A trader made his way from Bulgar lands.
He led his trains of twelve and fifteen mules
and sang and spoke the while he trek...
Eastern Aegean Chios Fable Song (Ballad)
A Trader Made His Way
Πραματευτής κατέβαινε
A trader made his way from Bulgar lands.
He led his trains of twelve and fifteen mules
and sang and spoke the while he trek...
Central Greece Attiki Processional Tune | Couplets Love Song, Local Song
A Walk in Sergiani
Σεργιάνι 'ναι στη Σεργιανή
Cappadocia / Konya Anakou Acritic Song
A Widow Bore a Child (The Song of Porphyris)
Χήρα-ν παιδίν εγέννησε
A widow bore a child and called him Prosfylis,
she bore him behind bars, she suckled him in a prison.
Aged one, he took up ...
Cappadocia / Konya Anakou Acritic Song
A Widow Bore a Child (The Song of Porfyris)
Χήρα παιδίν εγέννησε
Asia Minor Erythraea, Reisdere Couplets Love Song
Again They Entered in the Dance
Πάλι ν-εβγήκαν στο χορό
Again they entered in the dance, four eyes as dark as olives,
four eyes that weave like shuttle through the hearts they brea...
Central Greece Euboea, Gymno Easter Song, Ritual Song | Sea and Sailors Song
All Attend at Church (Easter Dance)
Όλοι πάνε στην εκκλησά
All attend –for sake of Christ– all attend at church
to exclaim that ‘Christ is Risen!’ and to hear the Word.
As for me, th...
Peloponnese Immigration Song
All Turn Their Gaze upon the Sun
All turn their gaze upon the sun that's on the point of setting,
and yet the girl who's sore at heart is looking out to seaw...
Peloponnese Love Song
All the Birds, Two by Two
Όλα τα πουλάκια ζυγά-ζυγά
All the birds, amàn amàn,
the birds nest two by two,
all the birds two by two,
the swallow with his mate.
The lonesome ni...
Peloponnese Fable Song (Ballad)
All the Castles I Have Seen (The Castle of the Beautiful Maid)
All the castles I have seen, not one have I not visited
vr' amán amán, not one have I not visited,
oh maid Frankish, maiden...
Thessaly Magnesia, Keramidi Historical Song, National Legends and Laments
Amidst Three Seas
Ανάμεσα τρεις θάλασσες
Dodecanese Patmos Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
An Old Man Was Approaching (Explicit)
Ένας γέρος ηρκουντάνε
An old man -yes, an old man, an old man was approaching,
an old man was approaching, his prick was hanging down–
it wasn’t ...
Central Greece Klephtic Song
Androútsos' Mother
Androutsos’ mother is glad,
Androutsos’ mother is glad and Diakos’ proud
For they have warriors and captains for sons
who ...
Dodecanese Karpathos, Olympos Acritic Song
Andrónikos and His Black Steed
Άρκοντες τρων και πίνουσι
The nobles sit to eat and drink around a marble table,
a marble and a silver table, around a golden table,
and all do only ...
Asia Minor Couplets Love 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...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Vourla Processional Tune | Couplets | Table Song Sad and Plaintive Song
At Dawn
At dawn not once did I get up without sighing
arise, my sun, come, talk to me
without bending again on the pillow and cryin...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Alatsata Couplets Love Song
Ataris
Άταρης
I vowed to the Holy Virgin
not to sing again.
Ataris!
But for your sake
I will break the vow.
Four!
Once again four bla...
Peloponnese Processional Tune Love Song
Beam, Dear Moon
Φώτα το φεγγαράκι μου
– Come on beam, dear moon,
shine, moon dear, and light the way to my love.
Beam high and low, for it’s muddy and wet;
beam...
Central Greece Love Song
Beam, Moon Dear
Come on shine, dear moon,
beam, moon dear, light the way to my love.
Beam high and low, for it's muddy and wet;
beam still...
Central Greece Attiki, Megara Ritual Song, Great Lent Song
Carnival Is Ended Now
Περάσαν οι Αποκριές
Why, Carnival is ended now, and Cheese-week’s past as well
and, gracious me, the Lenten fast, the Lenten fast’s with us.
Th...
Dodecanese Wedding Song
Come All You Birds
Ελάτε όλα τα πουλιά
Come all you birds to make dough, help O Virgin,
now gold has merged with pearl, help O Virgin.
I make a round loaf for the...
Dodecanese Sea and Sailors Song
Couplets About the Sea
The sea is humble and resigned, the wind disturbs its calm,
a mother bears and rears her child, a stranger will embrace it.
...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Couplets Love Song
Dimitroula
You dance, my spoilt one, but I don't know who are you,
from your stature you seem, scampish perivolaria,
to be of noble bi...
Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Couplets Love Song
Do Not Nurture Any Doubts
Υποψία να μην έχεις
Oh, do not nurture any doubts about my love for you.
I feel quite lost when you are gone one hour from me.
You are a garden...
Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Love Song
Down at Aghia Marini
Down at Aghia Marini, at Virgin Mary's monastery
a twelve-year-old girl, joined the local nunnery.
She doesn't cross her fi...
Macedonia Love Song
During Five Whole Months I Wandered
Πέντε μήνες γκιζερούσα
During five whole months I wandered
in the rose garden, light of my two eyes, in the rose garden,
searching for a comely wo...
Propontis Mudania Love Song
Early last summer
Πέρσι το καλοκαιράκι
Early last summer
I set my sights on a little bird
But chase as I would, lust as I might,
She’d always take flight.
She s...
Eastern Aegean Samos, Karlovasi Carol Epiphany Carol, Wish Well
Epiphany Carol (Samos)
Ας τον (ε) καλαντρίσομε
Cyclades Mykonos Fable Song (Ballad), Charon's Song | Great Lent Song
Evyenoula
Η Βγενούλα
Young Evyenoula, comely lass, the lass who married early
and boastfully was wont to say that Charon would not get her
becau...
Thrace Evros, Neos Pyrgos Fable Song (Ballad), Charon's Song
Fair Evgenoula (Charon and the Maid)
Η Ευγενούλα η μοσχονιά
Evgenoula, the fair maid beloved by all,
went and boasted she had no fear of death,
that she had houses tall and a sweethea...
Constantinople Couplets Love Song
Farewell Holy One
Έχε γεια Παναγιά
In Galatá a shower falls, a downpour in Tatávla.
The loveliest of all the girls is she who's dressed in black.
It was nothi...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Kato Panagia Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Love Song
Fishermen, Have You Any Fish
– Hey fishermen, have you any fish,
any fish or squid or lobsters?
– We’ve got sardines all golden,
as golden as the maid ...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Couplets Love Song
For a Whole Seven Weeks...
Εφτά βδομάδες έκανα
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...
Epirus Polyphonic Immigration Song
Forgetful, I Am Truly Glad
Αλησμονώ και χαίρομαι
Forgetful I am truly glad but mindful I am saddened;
remembering those foreign lands, I want to set out for them.
"Get up, ...
Thrace Evros, Ambelakia Table Song Heroic Song
Forty Brave Young Lads
Forty brave lads and an old man
took up arms and dressed for war.
Slinging their muskets, the mountains light up,
buckling...
Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Love Song
Forty Five Lemon Trees
Σαράντα πέντε λεμονιές
Forty five lemon trees.
Forty five lemon trees rooted in the sand,
their leaves grow green, their lemons juicy.
Only my le...
Klephtic Song
Forty Klephts Are We
Forty klephts are we, forty brave young lads
and we swore an oath upon the Cross.
And we swore an oath upon the Cross
and ...
Cyprus Fable Song (Ballad)
Four and Four
Τέσσερα τσαι τέσσερα
Four and four makes eight,
four young lads setting out to war.
Feeling hungry on their way,
they slopped to eat and drink....
Propontis Couplets Love Song
Giannoula
Γιαννούλα
Life is sweet, despite all its torments,
And only a madman seeks death.
Giannoula,1 Giannoula, there’s nothing you don’t kn...
Asia Minor Makri - Levissi Table Song Wedding Song
Golden Table, Silver Plates
Για δέστε τράπεζα χρυσή
Central Greece Table Song Klephtic Song
Great Sorrow Was Expressed
Θρήνος μεγάλος έγινε
Great sorrow was expressed in Mesolonghi town;
for they are taking Markos to the church, my lads.
They’re taking Markos to ...
Central Greece Carnival Song
He's Dead Is Master Meat
Πέθαν’ ο Κρέας
He’s dead, o mother dear, he’s dead, he’s dead is Master Meat,
he’s dead is Master Meat, he’s dead, and Master Cheese is dyi...
Constantinople Couplets Love Song
Health to You, O Holy One
Έχε γεια Παναγιά - Καροτσιέρης
In Galatá a shower falls, a downpour in Tatávla.
The loveliest of all the girls is she who’s dressed in black.
It was nothi...
Central Greece Attiki
Here Come Maidens from Psatha
Here come maidens from Psatha,
I knew not who they were, I am heart-broken
Come on maiden mine,
Stand here in the shade
H...
Thessaly Larissa, Drymos Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
Here They Call the Fanny Yiota (Explicit)
Το μουνί το λένε Γιώτα
Here, my friend, they call the fanny, here they call the fanny Yióta,
here hey call the fanny Yióta and the pecker Panayióta...
Epirus Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
How Do They Grind the Pepper (Explicit)
Πώς το τρίβουν το πιπέρι
How do they grind, good shepherdess, how do they grind the pepper,
how do they grind the pepper, those diabolic monks?
With...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Kato Panagia Wedding Song
How beautiful our bride
Όμορφη που ‘ν’ η νύφη μας
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 ...
Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Wedding Song, For the Bride
I Bid Farewell to My Neighbourhood
Αφήνω γεια στη γειτονιά
Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Wedding Song
I Bid Farewell to My Neighbourhood
Αφήνω γεια στη γειτονιά
Thrace Evros, Paliouri Table Song Love Song
I See Ships A-Coming
Βλέπω καράβια πο ’ρχοντι
I see ships a-coming from Constantine’s City
with four hundred maids and sixty brave lads,
and mine in there amidst them si...
Sporades Skiathos Love Song
I See Some Ships Approaching Port
I see some ships approaching port, how beautiful they seem to me,
ships that sail across the waters,
rending my faint heart...
Central Greece Love Song
I Took the Road
I took the road
I walked for hours
I reflected on you, sat and wept
I passed by Mary’s,
Cried out, my head ached
Since I...
Eastern Aegean Chios Sea and Sailors Song
I Want to Sail Away
I would sail away I would, eri pali
in Attaleia’s waters yea, eri pali,
with the vessels from Psara,
who have sailors true...
Thrace Evros, Ambelakia Table Song Love Song
I Was Far Away, but Now I'm Back
Ξένος ήμαν κι ήρθα τώρα
I was far away,
but now I'm back from foreign lands
with diamonds and fresh-struck gold
and silver coins for you.
– What ...
Cyclades Sea and Sailors Song
I Went Aboard a Boat
Σε καινούργια βάρκα μπήκα
I went aboard a boat but newly built,
aboard a boat but newly built, and landed at Michalitsi.
I sought the seaman, stron...
Thessaly Love Song
I Went up High on Olympus
Βγήκα ψηλά στον Έλυμπο
I came out on high, priest’s daughter of mine,
I came out on high, high up on Olympus
and scanned the horizon, Father Dimit...
Asia Minor Makri - Levissi Processional Tune | Couplets Love Song
I Will Sing Tonight
Απόψε θε να τραγουδώ
I will sing tonight with the singers,
my little duckling,
with the singers, save your love for me.
With the lads of Liviss...
Propontis Sea and Sailors Song
I Wish for All the Months in Turn
I wish for all the months in turn, await them all with longing,
but not, o not, the month of March when folks embark on trav...
Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Sea and Sailors Song, Immigration Song
I Wish to Climb a Mountain Height
I wish to climb, I wish to climb, to climb a mountain height
Roidou, sweet Roidou, dear, to breast a marble height.
Oh, gat...
Thrace Table Song Immigration Song
I Would I Were a Bird
I would I were a bird to fly high up above the hill-tops,
and so survey what lies below in distant foreign countries
that I...
Thrace Table Song Immigration Song
I Would I Were a Bird
Να 'μαν πουλί να πέταγα
I would I were a bird to fly high up above the hill-tops,
and so survey what lies below in distant foreign countries
that I...
Propontis Couplets Love Song
I gave up all I had & What’s wrong, Theonitsa?
Όλα μου τα παράτησα & Τι έχεις Θεονίτσα
I gave up all I had, all the joys life gave me,
And now walk hand in hand with my humility.
It’s you that torments me, but...
Cyclades Sifnos Love Song
I'd Have Come Last Night
Ήθελα να ’ρθώ το βράδυ
I’d have come last night to see you,
amán, amán, amán, but I was caught out in a shower.
Then a heavy downpour soaked me,
...
Central Greece Carnival Song
If I Could Be Upon the Shore (Explicit)
Να ’μουν νύχτα στο γιαλό
If I could be, if I could be, could be upon the shore at night
to light a lamp, to light a lamp, to light a lamp so I might ...
Central Greece Carnival Song
If I Could Be Upon the Shore (Explicit)
Να 'μουν νύχτα στο γιαλό
If I could be, if I could be, could be upon the shore at night
to light a lamp, to light a lamp, to light a lamp so I might ...
Ionian islands Corfu Couplets Love Song
If I Could Have Two Hearts
Ορεινός χορός - Ήθελα να 'χα δυο καρδιές
Peloponnese Arcadia, Pera Melana Love Song
If I Had an Orchard
Περιβόλι ν-είχα η πάπια
If I had an orchard,
an orchard studded with bitter oranges.
Studded with bitter oranges,
bitter oranges all covered in bl...
Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
If I want black eyes
Μαύρα μάτια κι αν θελήσω
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...
Asia Minor Makri - Levissi Couplets Lampoon
If you want to marry
Αν θέλεις για να παντρευτείς
If you want to marry, to take a wife
Come ask me do, I'll tell you who's good for you.
Don't take a white woman, no sack of...
Eastern Aegean Lesvos Couplets Love Song
In Smyrna, in the Armenian Quarter
Στη Σμύρνη μες στην Αρμενιά
Peloponnese Arcadia, Pera Melana
In Vervena, in Doliana
Στα Βέρβενα, στα Δολιανά και στον ωραίον τόπο
Peloponnese Table Song Historical Song
In the Heart of Kalávryta
In the heart of Kalávryta, beneath the great plane tree
old Zaimis sat, three old men a-sitting.
There were three old men t...
Central Greece
In the Vineyard, on a Stump
In the vineyard, on a stump
A pretty bird is singing.
In the vineyard, on a pear-tree
A white bird is singing.
In the vin...
Cyclades Naxos Couplets Philosophical Song, Carnival Song
It Is the Custom Every Year
Τούτες οι μέρες το ’χουνε
It is the custom every year to mark these days and weeks
with dances for young swains and maids that mothers may rejoice.
S...
Cyclades Naxos Carnival Song, Philosophical Song
It Is the Custom Every Year
Τούτες οι μέρες το 'χουνε
It is the custom every year to mark these days and weeks
with dances for young swains and maids that mothers may rejoice.
S...
Sporades Skyros Couplets Love Song, Spring Song
It's in May the Partridge Sings
Το Μάη λαλούν οι πέρδικες
It’s in May the partridge sings,
in May the nightingale bursts into song,
’tis in May the turtledove takes to the wing
and...
Epirus Love Song
I’ll Be the Basil by Your Window
Βασιλικός θα γίνω
I’ll be the basil by your window,
I’ll stay unwed for your sake.
Come, come to me
and I’ll fill you with glee.
Come to th...
Macedonia Couplets Love Song
I’ll Jump From the Railings
Απ' τα κάγκελα θα πέσω
I’ll jump from the railings, I’ll fall to my death
and my love calls out “For the love of God, catch him!”
You’re white as ...
Epirus Immigration Song
John Dear Your Handkerchif
Γιάννη μου το μαντίλι σου
Your kerchief, Yanni, dearest love, why is it soiled and dirty?
Come, Yanno, come, Yannaki dear,
come now my handsome fello...
Dodecanese Kastellorizo Couplets Easter Song, Ritual Song
Just Like Easter Sunday
Σαν τη Mεγάλην Πασχαλιά
How wonderful if every day were just like Easter Sunday,
when girls put on their finery and dress as gentlefolk do.
Come on...
Asia Minor Love Song
Kanelóriza
Κανελόριζα
Down by the distance coast, down by the sandy shore
is the girl - is the girl I love.
The girl I love with hair so fair and...
Epirus Klephtic Song
Katsantonis
Κατσαντώνης
Hail, high mountains
and you, low hills, hail dear Katsantónis
and you, low-lying hills, my captain hail.
And you Tzoumérk...
Crete Cretan Kondylies Immigration Song
Kondylies
Κοντυλιές
Sweet bird flown far from home,
I’ve had no peace at all since we parted.
No Cretan far from home should die,
for the soil...
Epirus Acritic Song
Kostantis and Kostantas (The Death of Digenis)
Ο Κωσταντής κι ο Κωσταντάς
Oh, Kostantis, oh, Kostantas, oh, young Kostantinos,
for three long years wandered looking for a good wife to wed,
[to find...
Central Greece Table Song Klephtic Song
Kítsos' Mother
Kitsos’ mother sat on the river bank
scolding the river.
Scolding the river and pelting it with stones.
‘River flow less, ...
Constantinople Love Song
Last Summer
Πέρσι το καλοκαιράκι
Last summer,
I set my heart on a little bird.
But though I chased her,
catch her I could not.
I set my lime twig trap,
m...
Peloponnese Processional Tune Love Song, Wedding Song
Let My Eyes Go See
Ας πα να δουν τα μάτια μου
Let my eyes go see for themselves
how my love spends her days,
lest she’s found another and fallen in love
and left me.
W...
Peloponnese Processional Tune Love Song, Wedding Song
Let My Eyes Go See
Ας πα να δουν τα μάτια μου
Let my eyes go see for themselves
how my love spends her days,
lest she’s found another and fallen in love
and left me.
W...
Macedonia Love Song
Little Bird in a Cage
A little bird I had in a cage, by Saint Paraskevi
a sweet-smelling creature with the sweetest nature.
I fed her sugar – for...
Eastern Aegean Chios Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Love Song
Little Ship, Where Are You Going
Little ship, where are you going shore to shore, come out so I can see you
You’ve cast a spell on me
and I am mad about you...
Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Love Song
Little White Bird A-Sitting
Άσπρο πουλάκι κάθεται
There sits my little white bird, my fair white bird,
sitting on a green branch.
A white bird sitting on a green branch
gro...
Asia Minor Lullaby
Lullaby
Slumber for I’ve made you gift of three lands fine and mighty
Smyrni with her blossoms, Chios with her many vessels
and Con...
Asia Minor Lullaby
Lullaby
Νανούρισμα
Come, sleep, come take her to the gardens
and fill her bosom with flowers.
Sleep, fair day, bestarred night,
O May of bloo...
Pontus Fable Song (Ballad), Acritic Song
Marandon
Ο Μάραντον
Marandon has received the order to go to war.
He forges horseshoes of silver and nails of gold,
He shoes his black steed by...
Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Acritic Song
Mavrianos' Threshing Floor (The Wager of Giannis and the Sun)
Στου Μαυριανού τ' αλώνι
At Mavrianos' marble threshing floor
a king and a youth are contesting throwing heavy stones,
no one can throw them like Gi...
Cyclades Kythnos, Dryopida Couplets Love Song, Spring Song
May Is Come
May is come and bids me reap but for his sake
I shall not go and darken in the sun.
May, dear May with the flowers
and s...
Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
May Your Window Catch Fire
Το παραθύρι σ’ να καεί
May your window catch fire and your door cave in
so I may get my hands
on your divine body.
You sit at your window with ot...
Eastern Aegean Couplets Love Song
My Aching Breast
Το πονεμένο στήθος μου
My aching breast may well pain me, but does not speak of it,
and though my lips may sing a song, my heart does weep within.
...
Asia Minor Love Song
My Curly Basil
Σγουρέ βασιλικέ μου
My curly basil, when did you grow so
and spread your branches, little one,
and steal my wits away?
Oh curly basil, dear li...
Central Greece Immigration Song
My Emigrated Bird
Ξενιτεμένο μου πουλί (Η ξενιτιά)
My love-bird far away from home, my love who's broken-hearted,
...
Epirus Pogoni Immigration Song
My Heart-Sick Bird Flown Far From Home
Ξενιτεμένο μου πουλί
My heart-sick bird flown far from home,
joy you bring those far-flung lands,
sadness all you leave behind.
What'll I send,...
Asia Minor Smyrna Couplets Love Song
My Heartless Love (Smyrna's Bálos)
Καλέ, δε με λυπάσαι
My heartless love,
do you not feel for me
as you don your finery
and I lose myself for love of thee?
Come kiss me quick
...
Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Love Song
My Love Has Sent for Me
Με μήνυσε η αγάπη μου
My love has sent for me, she’s my heart’s desire,
to go to her and kiss her. Shine, dear moon, shine upon her,
so I may go ...
Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Love Song, Wedding Song
My Love Is Getting Married
Η αγάπη μου παντρεύεται
Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Love Song, Wedding Song
My Love Is to Wed
Η αγάπη μου παντρεύεται
My love is to wed and marry my rival,
but it’s not that that pains me so,
it pains me that she's asked me to be their best ...
Dodecanese Couplets Immigration Song
My Precious (Tzivaeri)
Τζιβαέρι
Alas, my precious,
my fragrant flower now brings joy to a foreign land,
gently, gently and quietly.
Alack, 'twas I sent h...
Dodecanese Couplets Immigration Song
My Precious (Tzivaeri)
Now a foreign land watches him grow -my precious one
my life's sweet-smelling blossom -silently and humbly.
God, I was the ...
Dodecanese Couplets Immigration Song
My Precious (Tzivaeri)
Τζιβαέρι
Alas, my precious,
my fragrant flower now brings joy to a foreign land,
gently, gently and quietly.
Alack, 'twas I sent h...
Eastern Aegean Lesvos, Loutra Couplets Wedding Song, For the Groom
My Royal-Born Pearl Pod
Son-in-law, royal-born pearl pod,
God-fashioned pillar of the sun.
The groom was not born of mortal womb,
he’s the lemon t...
Cappadocia / Konya Farasa Carol New Year's Carol, Ritual Song
New Year Carol (Cappadocia)
Άστρον ανεφάνεις Βασίλειε
Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Holy Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song
Now Is the Holy Time of Lent (Holy Week Lament)
Τώρα ’ν’ αγιά Σαρακοστή
Now is the holy time of Lent, these days are holy days,
when services are held in church and priests are chanting hymns,
an...
Panhellenic Acritic Song
Now the Birds (A Soldier and a Tree)
Τώρα τα πουλιά
Now the birds, now the swallows, now the partridges,
now the partridges are singing more and more:
- Wake up, master, wake ...
Peloponnese Acritic Song, Wedding Song
Now the Birds...
Τώρα τα πουλιά
Now the birds, now the swallows,
Now the partridges do not cease singing and saying:
– Awake, my lord, awake, my good lord,...
Sporades Skiathos Table Song Sad and Plaintive Song
O Black Dawn, Won't You Break
Δεν ξημερώνεις μαύρη αυγή
Won’t you break, black dawn
so I can find peace, my jewel,
so I can find peace?
My eyes are close to dim…
My eyes are clo...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Couplets Easter Song, Ritual Song
O Christ Is Risen (Easter Dance)
Χριστός Ανέστη μάτια μου
Christ is risen, darling one, so, come, let’s be a-kissing,
go fetch a tendril from a vine and, come, let us be wedded.
See...
Ecclesiastical Hymn
O Virgin Mother of God
Θεοτόκε Παρθένε. Eccleseastical hymn
O Virgin Mother of God, hail, Mary, full of Grace,
the Lord be with thee.
Blessed art thou among women
and blessed is the ...
Dodecanese Nisyros Sea and Sailors Song
Oh Yes, Indeed Did Boreas
Oh yes, indeed did Boreas, Master North Wind, truly wish,
Master North Wind, truly wish indeed to blow with gale force stren...
Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Historical Song, National Legends and Laments
Old Nun A-Cooking
Καλογριά μαγέρευε
A nun was frying fish and a voice,
a shrill high voice, kept telling her again and again :
‘Stop cooking, old maid,
and Co...
Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Historical Song, National Legends and Laments
Old Nun A-Cooking
Καλογριά μαγέρευε
A nun was frying fish and a voice,
A squeaky little voice, kept telling her over and over:
- Stop cooking, old maid,
And C...
Cappadocia / Konya Sinasos Love Song
On my way to the mountains of Prussa
Πάγω στης Προύσας τα βουνά
On my way - oh aman, gel aman -
On my way to the mountains of Prussa,1
I found a cool brook bubbling.
I bent down to take ...
Central Greece Euboea Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Lampoon
Our Tráta All Tattered
Η τράτα μας η κουρελού
Our battered old boat and its tattered old nets
patched over and over and yet always torn.
Our old boat
needs sails,
Our ...
Asia Minor Smyrna Couplets Love Song
Poor sad love
Παραπονιάρικό μου
Poor sad love who weeps all day,
What is it ails you, why won’t you say?
Sneak to the window and pretend
It’s your marjora...
Eastern Aegean Love Song
River, Dear River of Mine
Ποταμέ, τζάνεμ ποταμέ μου
River, dear river of mine,
river, my river, when you fill.
River, my river, when you fill
and crash, and crash and swell.
...
Central Greece Lament, Local Event
River, Dry Gorge
Λαγκάδι ξερολάγκαδο
River, dry gorge, river
vái, as you come rushing down
your hair flows russet, maid.
River, I cannot remember
vái, ever ha...
Propontis Bithynia, Michalitsi Couplets Love Song
Roumbalia - Carnation
Who has seen a love-sick youth and a thief of love?
Roumbalia,1 carnation,
birds circle around you.
He wakes up with sighs...
Epirus Klephtic Song
Samarina
Σαμαρίνα
Hey, you young klephts,
you sons of Samarina,
if you go up to the mountains, the Samarina way
[don’t fire off shots, don’t...
Central Greece Euboea, Kymi Couplets Sea and Sailors Song
Should You See a Vessel Pass
An’ should you see a vessel pass, passing the cape of Ochtoniá
oh take your little kerchief out and wave in signal to me.
S...
Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
So, I Decided I'd Become...
Αποφάσισα να γίνω
So, I decided I'd become a dome high on Aghiá Sophiá, amán, my love, amán,
Then Turkish girls and Greek ones, too, would com...
Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Couplets Love Song, Local Song
Sokiani
Σωκιανή
Ah, aman, aman, Sokiani1,
Sokiani, my heart goes out to thee.
Ah, aman, aman, Menemen’,
Menemen’, thou art my heart’s desi...
Dodecanese Kastellorizo Wedding Song
Sousta from Kastellorizo
Καστελλοριζιανή σούστα - Μάνα χαρά μεγάλη
Peloponnese Historical Song
Tartar with a Chain
The Tartar’s hauling nine brothers bound,
nine brothers bound with a chain,
girl with the mischievous eyes, I weep for you....
Cyprus Couplets Love Song
Tellyrkotissa
You are a bright star, bright and small amidst the seven planets,
the words you've said enslaved my heart.
They rushed and ...
Peloponnese Arcadia, Pera Melana Historical, Recent
The Captains of Trípoli
The captains of Trípoli, mana mou,
the captains of Trípoli
and the brave men of Moriá.
In Albania they lie, in Iván they r...
Central Greece Hydra Fable Song (Ballad)
The Glass Well
Το γυάλινο πηγάδι
Aidés ki amán amán, have you heard the news?
Have you heard what happened down at the well of glass?
A wild beast appeared,...
Sporades Skiathos Sea and Sailors Song
The Great North Wind Blew
The Great North Wind blew throughout the land
and all those, kalé, all those ships that heard him
made it safely into shore...
Epirus Immigration Song
The Lady Turtle-Dove
There in the sky that you fly, my lady turtle-dove,
when from these hights you're looking down,
did you by chance see my lo...
Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Holy Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song
The Lament of the Virgin (Baidiri, Asia Minor) (Holy Week Lament)
Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Mπαϊντίρι)
...
The Virgin heard the awful news, she swooned and fell,
they fetched some water in a crock; three tumblers of flower-wat...
Cyprus Holy Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song
The Lament of the Virgin (Cyprus) (Holy Week Lament)
Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Κύπρος)
O gentlefolk, pay heed to me, and hear the Mother’s dirge,
hear how she mourns her only child upon the yonder Cross.
Take n...
Propontis Marmara Holy Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song
The Lament of the Virgin (Marmaras, Asia Minor) (Holy Week Lament)
Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Μαρμαράς)
...
A voice from heaven could be heard, a good archangel speaking.
My lady, that’s enough of prayers, enough of doing penan...
Eastern Aegean Lesvos, Skoutaro Holy Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song
The Lament of the Virgin (Mytilene) (Holy Week Lament)
Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Μυτιλήνη)
...
Obediently returning home, she laid the supper table
and patiently sat down to wait until her son should come back.
Sa...
Eastern Aegean Ikaria, Fournoi Holy Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song
The Lament of the Virgin (Phourni) (Holy Week Lament)
Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Φούρνοι Ικαρίας)
...
– Be off with you, you gypsy scum, and may your hearth grow cold,
and may you lack a second shirt to clothe your wretch...
Pontus Holy Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song
The Lament of the Virgin (Pontus) (Holy Week Lament)
Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Πόντος)
...
Do you not see that naked man, forlorn and sore afflicted,
who wears a garment steeped in blood,
a thorny crown upon h...
Thrace Holy Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song
The Lament of the Virgin (Thrace) (Holy Week Lament)
Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Θράκη)
...
Today the sky is sullen black, the day itself is sullen,
today all folk are sorrowing, the mountains are in mourning,
...
Propontis Nicomedea, Katirli Couplets Love Song, Spring Song
The May Month
Μάη μου με τα λούλουδα
The May month with its wealth of flowers and April with its dews,
I’ve got you on my mind again and didn’t sleep last night....
Sporades Skyros Couplets Love Song
The Night Endures for Thirteen Hours
Η νύχτα ώρες δεκατρείς
The night endures for thirteen hours, I sleep for merely three.
Throughout the hours that then remain I think of only you.
...
Macedonia Love Song
The Star and the Little Moon
The star -come now my treasure- the star and the little moon,
the star, my precious, and the moon, I’ll follow a narrow trai...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Couplets Love Song
The Water of Life (Olmaz)
Από τα γλυκά σου μάτια
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 ...
Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Sea and Sailors Song
The Words Gone Round
The word’s gone round: the lads from Crete, the lads who hail from Crete,
those brave and comely Cretan lads, have now cast ...
Macedonia Immigration Song
The Wretched Mother Kneaded Dough
The wretched mother kneaded dough: her sailor son required rusks.
She kneaded dough, the wretched one, and wept and chanted ...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Couplets Love Song, Wedding Song
The Young Meliots
Τα Μελιωτάκια
Two young Meliots got up to dance the syrtos,
they will ask us for songs and commendations.
Come, let us go over there and ...
Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
There Are Hearts That Laugh
Είναι καρδιές όπου γελούν
There are hearts that laugh, there are hearts that weep;
there are hearts that ache, but don’t speak of pain.
Oh, come, my ...
Peloponnese Table Song Historical Song
Thirty Ships Prepared for Sea
Thirty ships were sailing towards Cape Malea and Hydra,
ten of them belonged to France and ten of them to England,
the othe...
Eastern Aegean Lesvos, Mandamados Love Song
This Lovely Summer...
Φέτο το καλοκαιράκι
This lovely summer that is past,
this lovely summer that is past,
áde, this lovely summer that is past
I hunted for a litt...
Thrace Lampoon, Carnival Song
Three Beardless Gents
Ήρθαν τρεις σπανοί απ’ την Πόλη
Three beardless gents down from the City,
five hairs between them, what a pity.
Then bré bré bré a fourth sailed in,
from ...
Central Greece Fthiotida, Ypati Sea and Sailors Song, Historical Song
Three Cretan Monks
Three Cretan monks and three from Mount Athos
prepared a ship to sail, prepared a ship to sail.
They prepared a ship to sai...
Peloponnese Sea and Sailors Song
Three Slender Girls
Three slender girls, three slender girls set out together,
they were all three, my friend, all three were dark-eyed girls.
...
Eastern Aegean Chios, Mesta Sea and Sailors Song
Three monks from Crete
Three monks from Crete, three monks from Crete
And three from Mount Athos, te-teriri-riririrem1
they fitted out a sailing-s...
Eastern Aegean Lesvos, Mandamados Couplets Love Song, Sad and Plaintive Song
To Whom Then Shall I Tell My Woe
Τίνος να πω τον πόνο μου
To whom then shall I tell my woe, who will not sigh or groan?
Even the tight-lipped stone itself would shed a silent tear.
...
Peloponnese Couplets Easter Song, Ritual Song
Today, My Dark-Eyed Beauty (Easter Dance)
Σήμερα Xριστός Aνέστη
Today, my dark-eyed beauty, today it’s ‘Christ is Risen!’
today it’s ‘Christ is Risen!, he’s taken up to heaven.
Today, my ...
Propontis Acritic Song
Tsamandas (The Fight of Tsamados With His Son)
Ο Τσάμαντας
Up at Saint Thodoros' chapel,
at the church of Saint Kostantinos,
there are twelve circles dancing
and eighteen rings set ...
Peloponnese Love Song
Vassilo Kalamatiani
Βασίλω Καλαματιανή
Hey there, Vassílo, o lass from Kalamáta, ah...
Vasso, my dear Vassílo,
hey there, o lass from Mikrománi.
Oh tut, my dear ...
Sporades Skiathos Love Song
We Kissed Each Other in the Night
We kissed each other in the night, and who could see us then?
I’ll tell you, dear, the star saw us, and dawn saw us as well....
Eastern Aegean Ikaria, Fournoi Couplets Love Song
What Ails You, Crow
Τι έχεις μαύρε κόρακα
What ails you, crow, that your wings have blackened?
If it’s your heart that aches, come weep with me.
’Twas for you and me...
Central Greece Fthiotida, Modio Historical, Recent
What Ails You, Poor Parnassós
What ails you, poor Parnassós,
what ails you that you stand there sadly.
Are your snows not deep,
are your streams not fre...
Central Greece Klephtic Song
What Ails You, Poor Plane-Tree?
Τ' έχεις καημένε πλάτανε
What ails you, poor plane-tree?
Your roots draw water, amán,
your roots draw well, yet you stand there limp,
your roots dr...
Thrace Love Song
When I Was a Lad
Αντά ’μαν παλικάρι
When I was a lad, twelve years of age
l walked on iron and turned it to water,
I walked on marble and turned it to dust.
T...
Dodecanese Immigration Song
When You Go off to Foreign Lands
When you go off to foreign lands, my love, don’t stay a year there,
because it’s more than I can bear, the pain of separatio...
Eastern Aegean Chios, Volissos Carnival Song, Lampoon
When You Want to Get Married Stranger
Ξένε σα θες να παντρευτείς
Macedonia Immigration Song
White Doves O Mine, White Ring-Doves
White doves o’ mine, white ring-doves, black-hued birds o’ mine,
you fly so high above us, traversing the sky.
Come down, a...
Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Love Song
Who Ever Saw a Tree of Green
Ποιός είδε πράσινο δεντρί
Who ever saw a tree of green,
with silver leaves to boot,
my little black-eyed girl,
eyes black, eyebrows dark as soot.
I...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Kato Panagia Couplets Wedding Song
Who Was the Matchmaker
Ποιός ήταν ο προξενητής
Sporades Skiathos Love Song
Whoever Saw a Tree of Green
Ποιος είδε πράσινο δεντρί
Whoever saw a tree of green,
with eyes of black and a blond sheen
and royal blue leaves to boot,
eyes black, eyebrows dark...
Macedonia Couplets Love Song, Carnival Song
Why Did I Fall in Love With You? (Enteka (Eleven))
Τι 'θελα και σ' αγαπούσα
Why did I go and fall for you?
Why didn't I just get on with my life?
Now my head’s swimming
and knives have pierced my he...
Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Easter Song, Ritual Song | Local Event
Why, It Was Easter Day (Easter Dance Song)
Why, it was Easter Day, good George, t’was Easter,
the day of happy tidings, my good George,
a day of happy tidings, dear D...
Central Greece Fthiotida, Amphicleia Philosophical Song, Nature Song
Winter and Autumn
Χειμώνας κι ο χινόπωρος
Winter and… winter and autumn…
winter and autumn eat and drink at the same table.
They called for spring to join them, but ...
Asia Minor Erythraea, Alatsata Couplets Love Song
Yioryitsa
I intended to love you, my Yioryítsa,
and nobody to know of it.
Now our own people learn of it, my Yioryítsa,
strangers to...
Thessaly Magnesia, Keramidi Immigration Song
Yorgalakis
In yonder machalá,1 amán,2 o Yorgalaki, yonder,
there’s running water running there – they call it silver water.
If any mot...
Love Song
You Dare to Speak Like That
Θα σπάσω κούπες
You dare to speak like that, I’ll smash the dishes
and all the glasses, damn your tart remarks!
Amán, amán, amán, I’m mad f...
Cyclades Couplets Sea and Sailors Song
You Quench Your Thirst... O Sea
You quench your thirst from every source, o sea, from every river,
and spare us not a single one of our most manly menfolk.
...
Cyclades Couplets Sea and Sailors Song
You Quench Your Thirst... O Sea
Θάλασσα απ' όλα τα νερά
You quench your thirst from every source, o sea, from every river,
and spare us not a single one of our most manly menfolk.
...
Cyclades Couplets Sea and Sailors Song
You Quench Your Thirst... O Sea
You quench your thirst from every source, o sea, from every river,
and spare us not a single one of our most manly menfolk.
...
Propontis Marmara Couplets For the Bride, Wedding Song
You wear white
Άσπρα φορείς
You wear white and hold white and white is your dress
And white the flowers that swoon at your passing.
Dance, sweet bride,...
Eponymous Composer Modern Composition
Zonaradiko - Here Upon the Grassy Meadow
Ζωναράδικο - Δω στα λιανοχορταρούδια. By Dionysis Savvopoulos
Young men who’ve let their hair grow long and dress in black all over
bring messages for one whom I did once love very dearl...
Albums
A Second Voyage to Greece
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LP
A Stroll with Domna Samiou
Singer,
Spoons,
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Akritic Songs
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By the Flowering Oleander
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Carnival Songs
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CD
Carnival Songs (LP)
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LP
Carnival Songs with Domna Samiou
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Christmas, New Year and Epiphany Carols
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Domna Samiou At Megaron, The Athens Concert Hall
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CD
Domna Samiou Sings Songs of Nature and of Love
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Easter Songs
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CD
Epic Songs of Warriors and Heroes
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Ethnologie Vivante: Grèce
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Farewell Holy One
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Folk Fables in Song
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Greek Carols
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I Tread the Earth Gently
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In the Middle of the Sea
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Kaneloriza
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Mousiko Odiporiko 1959-1969
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Music from Greece: Domna Samiou
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Daouli (davul),
Toumbi,
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CD
My Emigrated Bird
Singer,
Daouli (davul),
Toumbi,
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LP
My Old Torments
Singer,
Tambourine,
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Digital release
Of Nature and of Love
Singer,
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CD
Perperouna
Singer,
Tongs,
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Polyphonic Songs and Music from Epirus
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Recordings in 45 RPM
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45 RPM
Songs About Greeks Far From Home
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Songs About Greeks Far From Home (LP)
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Songs and Tunes from all Around Greece
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Songs of Asia Minor 1
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Spoons,
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Songs of Asia Minor 2
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Spoons,
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Songs of Cappadocia
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Songs of Central Greece and Peloponnese
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Songs of Dame Sea
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Songs of History and Heroes
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Songs of the Sea and of the Highlands
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Songs οf Asia Minor
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Souravli - Greek Flutes and Pipes
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The Akolouthia Of Nymphios
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The Earth’s Three Bounties
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The Great North Wind and Other Traditional Songs for Children
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CD
Travelling in Greece with Domna Samiou
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LP
Wedding Songs
Singer,
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Unreleased collection
Concerts
1971-1973 Athens, Clubs Rodeo, Kyttaro and Rizes
The First Concerts
In 1971, in the midst of the military Junta period in Greece,...
1978-1997
With Evgenios Spatharis in Shadow Theatre Performances
Performances with legendary shadow theatre artist Evgenios Sp...
1971-1980 England
Concerts at the English Bach Festival
Invited by Lina Lalandi, founder of the English Bach Festival...
29/10/1998 The Athens Concert Hall, Hall of the Friends of Music
The Known and the Unknown Domna
A great concert called 'The known and unknown Domna', part of...
08 & 09/03/2005 The Athens Concert Hall, Hall of the Friends of Music
Songs of Asia Minor with Domna Samiou
An Asia Minor tribute concert.
26-29/12/1996 The Athens Concert Hall, 'Dimitris Mitropoulos' Auditorium
Greek Carols
Carols and songs at the stage of the Megaron the Athens Conce...
11/10/2005 Odeon of Herodes Atticus
Domna Samiou Sings Songs of Nature and of Love
Traditional songs and events that follow the course of the cy...
04/03/2003 Thessaloniki Concert Hall
Carnival Songs with Domna Samiou
A carnival feast at the stage of the Thessaloniki Concert Hal...
02/09/2001 Odeon of Herodes Atticus
A Bee Goes By
A concert for children performed by children with traditional...
TV shows
Music program
Musical Travelogue with Domna Samiou - Carnivals of the Twelve Nights, Eastern Macedonia
1977
Television ERT
