With its dignity battered by six years of "humiliation" at the hands of its international creditors, cash-strapped Greece is turning to folk music and patriotism to restore its injured national pride.

ATHENS, Greece — Greece is honoring the late clarinetist Petroloukas Chalkias, whose hypnotic, note-bending performances over the course of more than 70 years made him a hero of mountain folk music.

Dromeno is a traditional ensemble presenting authentic regional music from the Greek mainland and beyond, overlapping into the surrounding regions and finding the musical legacy that connects the ...

Grief and sorrow has been expressed by people in Greece and all over the world over the news of the death [el] of musician Domna Samiou, one of the most important and distinguished representatives of ...

GRAFTON -- The Grafton Public Library presents a free concert of Rebitika folk songs from Greece and traditional music from Turkey, Arabia and Persia on Thursday, Oct. 25, at 7 p.m., at the Library.

This weekend is the annual Lowell Folk Festival and local lauoto player Vasilis Kostas will be playing. The lauoto is an eight-string, long necked instrument also called the Greek lute. Kostas grew up ...

ATHENS, Greece, Nov. 20, 2025 /CNW/ -- Hellenic Music Ensemble, the 21-piece Greek orchestra announces the North American dates of its 2026 world tour -- a landmark concert tribute to two of Greece's ...

It's midnight in the Aegean Sea but on the Greek island of Ikaria, in the courtyard of the church of St Elijah, the revelry was barely getting started, reports AFP. Dozens of dancers and scores of ...