George Voreas-Melas and the Astrageri Ensemble music and dance collective, consisting of the instructors from the annual seminar of folk (traditional) music “The Mistral of July”, held in Volissos from 25 to 30 July, meet at the Mastic Museum of the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation in Pyrgi. They will treat the audience to an evening of rhythms and melodies, initiating a musical journey from Chios to the coast of Asia Minor, through Cappadocia and Thrace, and all the way to the Bosporus. 

In the first part, the musicians will present new compositions inspired by modal music from Greece and the East while, in the second part, a group of dancers, led by Dimitris Gianniodis and Sofia Politi, will bring traditional songs and dances to life.

Admission is free, reservation required, by phone at (+30) 22710 72212.

Contributors:

Ilias Markantonis: Clarinet 

Thomas Meleteas: Oud 

Athina Kouki: Qanun

Demosthenes Karachristodoulou: Politiki lyra

Alexandra Papastergiopoulou: Percussion

George Voreas-Melas: Lead vocals

Programme 

Part 1

Waltz No Name, music by Ilias Markantonis

Welcome, lyrics-music by Thomas Meleteas

The reckoning, lyrics-music by George Voreas-Melas

My angel, lyrics-music by Alexandra Papastergiopoulou

Challenge, lyrics-music by Demosthenes Karachristodoulou

Part 2 

I don’t want you to work, lyrics-music by Marianthi Almyroudi (Pyrgi, Chios)

Fevronia (Sparta, Lakonia)

It is not dawn to rise (Asia Minor; Chios)

Three ships go (Eastern Thrace)

I told you and I tell you again (Archipelago; Asia Minor)

Look at the beautiful orchard (Crete)

Tonight at midnight/Koniali (Cappadocia)

Part 3 

Like the marbles of Constantinople (Lesvos; Constantinople [Istanbul])

Aivaliotikos dance (Lesvos; Chios; Aeolia, Asia Minor)

Cycladic balos dance (Archipelago)

Pyrgousikos gematos dance (Pyrgi, Chios)

Aignousiotikos dance (Oinousses, Chios)

Nenitousikos dance (Nenita, Chios)

Fereis dance (Chios)