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Andreas Pappas
Biographical Note

He plays the percussion, mostly the daouli (davul), the goblet drum, the frame drum (bendir), and the tambourine. He began his musical career in 1975, taking part in various traditional orchestras. Since 1983 he has been collaborating with ERT in both television and radio productions, playing music next to important Greek folk musicians.
He has participated in theatre and cinema recordings, in works of numerous artists. From 1994 to 1997 he was a member of the Greek Music State Orchestra, under the direction of Stavros Xarchakos. He has collaborated with the Athens Concert Hall in various productions and has taken part in Greek and international festivals (Womad, Athens Ethnic Jazz Festival etc).
In 1995 he released the album Krousta, in collaboration with Vangelis Karipis and Yiorgos Gevgelis, and in 1987, together with Petros Kourtis and Vangelis Karipis, he formed the percussion band 'Krotala', taking part in festivals and international musical events.
Since 2002 he has been collaborating with the οrchestra Estoudiantina Neas Ionias. In 2004 he represented Greece in the International Percussion Meeting in Tunis (MediMuses programme). Moreover, he participated in the music recordings of the opening ceremony of the Athens Olympic Games, and in 2008 in the traditional orchestra that represented Greece in the festivities for the Beijing Olympic Games.
He teaches traditional percussion at the Athens Conservatory.
Source: Andreas Pappas
Songs

Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Historical Song
A Great Command

Peloponnese Klephtic Song
A Maid Decided

Asia Minor Erythraea, Reisdere Couplets Love Song
Again They Entered in the Dance

Epirus Klephtic Song
All the Captains' Women

Peloponnese Fable Song (Ballad)
All the Castles I Have Seen (The Castle of the Beautiful Maid)

Dodecanese Patmos Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
An Old Man Was Approaching (Explicit)

Dodecanese Patmos Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
An Old Man Was Approaching (Explicit)


Central Greece Klephtic Song
Androútsos' Mother

Asia Minor Erythraea, Vourla Processional Tune | Couplets | Table Song Sad and Plaintive Song
At Dawn

Epirus Klephtic Song
At Tserítsiana’s Well

Central Greece Euboea, Agios Dimitrios Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
Auntie Nikolakaina (Explicit)

Central Greece Euboea, Agios Dimitrios Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
Auntie Nikolakaina (Explicit)




Thrace Acritic Song
Digenis Is Dying (The Death of Digenis)

Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Couplets Love Song
Do Not Nurture Any Doubts

Propontis Mudania Love Song
Early last summer

Macedonia Kastoria Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
Five and Ten Priests' Wives (Explicit)

Macedonia Kastoria Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
Five and Ten Priests' Wives (Explicit)

Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Couplets Love Song
For a Whole Seven Weeks...

Klephtic Song
Forty Klephts Are We

Propontis Couplets Love Song
Giannoula

Peloponnese Historical Song
Great Joy Across the Land



Central Greece Carnival Song
He's Dead Is Master Meat

Macedonia Klephtic Song
Hey Mountains of Grevená

Epirus Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
How Do They Grind the Pepper (Explicit)

Epirus Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
How Do They Grind the Pepper (Explicit)

Peloponnese Historical Song
How Joyous Are the Mountains


Central Greece Carnival Song, Philosophical Song
I Have Grown Old, Goddam It

Central Greece
I Have Grown Old, Goddam It

Central Greece Historical Song
I Passed by One Saturday

Propontis Couplets Love Song
I gave up all I had & What’s wrong, Theonitsa?

Asia Minor Smyrna, Baindiri Couplets Love Song
I'll jump from the battlements

Central Greece Carnival Song
If I Could Be Upon the Shore (Explicit)

Central Greece Carnival Song
If I Could Be Upon the Shore (Explicit)

Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
If I want black eyes

Asia Minor Makri - Levissi Couplets Lampoon
If you want to marry

Constantinople Couplets Love Song
In the workshops of Constantinople

Cyclades Naxos Couplets Philosophical Song, Carnival Song
It Is the Custom Every Year

Cyclades Naxos Carnival Song, Philosophical Song
It Is the Custom Every Year

Epirus Love Song
I’ll Be the Basil by Your Window





Epirus Klephtic Song
Katsantónis

Epirus Acritic Song
Kostantis and Kostantas (The Death of Digenis)

Thrace Acritic Song
Kostantis the Only Son

Central Greece Table Song Klephtic Song
Kítsos' Mother

Asia Minor Couplets Love Song
Like the Marble of the City (Constantinople)

Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Acritic Song
Mavrianos' Threshing Floor (The Wager of Giannis and the Sun)

Thrace Couplets Love Song, Spring Song
May

Cappadocia / Konya Sinasos
Mother, spring is here

Epirus Pogoni Immigration Song
My Heart-Sick Bird Flown Far From Home

Asia Minor Smyrna Couplets Love Song
My Heartless Love (Smyrna's Bálos)

Asia Minor Erythraea, Kato Panagia Couplets Love Song
My old torments

Macedonia Historical Song
Nine Villages They Razed

Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Historical Song, National Legends and Laments
Old Nun A-Cooking

Eastern Thrace & Roumelia Historical Song, National Legends and Laments
Old Nun A-Cooking

Peloponnese Klephtic Song
On Tríkorfa Peak

Central Greece Euboea Couplets Sea and Sailors Song, Lampoon
Our Tráta All Tattered

Asia Minor Smyrna Couplets Love Song
Poor sad love

Peloponnese Historical Song
Rock of Monemvasiá

Propontis Bithynia, Michalitsi Couplets Love Song
Roumbalia - Carnation

Epirus Klephtic Song
Samarina


Peloponnese Arcadia, Pera Melana Historical, Recent
The Captains of Trípoli


Propontis Nicomedea, Katirli Couplets Love Song, Spring Song
The May Month

Epirus Arta, Grammenitsa Instrumental Carnival Song
The Maypole and Other Local Carnival Traditions

Asia Minor Erythraea, Meli Couplets Love Song
The Water of Life (Olmaz)

Thrace Lampoon, Carnival Song
Three Beardless Gents

Cappadocia / Konya Sinasos Fable Song (Ballad)
Three Lords A-Sitting

Asia Minor Erythraea, Alatsata Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
Together With My Aunt Kontylo (Explicit)

Asia Minor Erythraea, Alatsata Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
Together With My Aunt Kontylo (Explicit)

Propontis Acritic Song
Tsamandas (The Fight of Tsamados With His Son)





Central Greece Fthiotida, Modio Historical, Recent
What Ails You, Poor Parnassós

Central Greece Klephtic Song
What Ails You, Poor Plane-Tree?

Thrace Evros, Kyani Carnival Song
What Am I, Poor Wretch, to Do



Macedonia Klephtic Song
When You Dream of Brave Deeds

Macedonia Couplets Love Song, Carnival Song
Why Did I Fall in Love With You? (Enteka (Eleven))

Constantinople Table Song Love Song
You Have Entangled Me

Propontis Marmara Couplets For the Bride, Wedding Song
You wear white

Albums

Carnival Songs

Carnival Songs (LP)

Carnival Songs with Domna Samiou

Easter Songs

Epic Songs of Warriors and Heroes

Folk Fables in Song

Kaneloriza

Music from Greece: Domna Samiou

My Emigrated Bird

My Old Torments

Songs of Asia Minor 2

Songs of History and Heroes

Songs οf Asia Minor
Concerts

08 & 09/03/2005 The Athens Concert Hall, Hall of the Friends of Music
Songs of Asia Minor with Domna Samiou
