Greek Folk Dance Group ‘Eleni Tsaouli’

Biographical Note

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Founded in 1954 by Eleni Tsaouli and a small group of people, that made it their primary goal to study and promote the Greek folk dances.

The Group has taken part in more than a thousand performances in Greece and abroad. It operates as a non-profit society and has more than two hundred members. It has a dancing group of about forty-five people, a childrens’ dancing group, over 150 authentic clothes from all over Greece, most of which are authentic, and a repertory of dances from all around Greece.

Domna Samiou collaborated with Eleni Tsaouli and the Group from the beginning of her career in 1971 to 1995, in over 160 concerts in Greece and abroad, and in disc recordings.

website: www.elenitsaouli.gr

Songs

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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 ...
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Macedonia Kastoria Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
Five and Ten Priests' Wives (Explicit)
Πέντε δέκα παπαδιές Five and ten –now harken here– five and ten priests’ wives there were, five and ten priests’ wives there were and nuns to th...
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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...
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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...
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Central Greece Carnival Song, Philosophical Song
I Have Grown Old, Goddam It
Γέρασα, μωρέ παιδιά – I have grown old, goddammit, friends, I have grown old and cannot now, I have grown old and cannot now sing the songs I us...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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Thrace Couplets Love Song, Spring Song
May
Μάης May's come, May's come and spring, summer’s come when the perfumed roses bloom. I’ve a white rose I want to dye and if I...
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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 ...
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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...
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Asia Minor Erythraea, Alatsata Carnival Song, Bawdy Song
Together With My Aunt Kontylo (Explicit)
Με τη θεια μου την Κοντύλω Together with my aunt Kontýlo I made towards the mill one day, biyirné-biyirné-biyi-biyi-biyirné. I elbow her, she elbows m...
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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...
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Asia Minor Erythraea, Alatsata Couplets Love Song
Yatzilariani
I brought you a Good Evening, give me a Good Night I had no business here, I came only for you. Come out that I may see yo...
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Asia Minor Erythraea, Çeşme Work Song, Sea and Sailors Song
Yio Mario
Net casting a-plenty, rigging and rigging again And Nikolis was shouting: ‘One more rope’. The knot of the net is off to se...

Albums

Concerts

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1971-1973 Athens, Clubs Rodeo, Kyttaro and Rizes
The First Concerts
In 1971, in the midst of the military Junta period in Greece,...