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Ilias Soukas
Biographical Note

Born in 1935 Kompoti, a village in the Prefecture of Arta, in Epirus. He belongs to the fourth generation of a musical family. His father taught him the violin and his repertoire includes traditional songs of Asia Minor, of Epirus, of the Aegean islands, and of Central Greece.
Source: Yiorgos E. Papadakis’ archive
Songs

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 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 ...

Thessaly Immigration Song
When You Go off Abroad, My Love
When you go off abroad, my love, go off to foreign places,
just see you don't remain six months, and don't you linger years ...

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...

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...
Albums

Songs About Greeks Far From Home
Violin
CD

Songs About Greeks Far From Home (LP)
Violin
LP