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The Dormition of the Virgin Mary, on August 15, is a major religious holiday. It is also a name day for several names including Maria, Mary, Panagiota and Despina. Here, at GME, we shall be celebrating together with all these people, listening to songs that refer to their names. Maria who was laughing,...

A conversation with Jim Zervanos - writer, painter, educator and Greek-American storyteller whose words travel from hospital rooms to high school classrooms, from the most personal moments of illness to the shared search for meaning. Jim’s memoir, That Time I Got Cancer: A Love Story, isn’t just abo...

Πώς είναι να είσαι Έλληνας αλλά να μιλάς σπαστά ελληνικά; Πώς είναι να συλλαβίζεις το όνομά σου σε δύο διαφορετικά αλφάβητα; Πώς είναι να αισθάνεσαι ότι έχεις δύο πατρίδες; Στην εκπομπή μιλάει η Δρ. Ελένη Χαπίδου, Ελληνοκαναδή ψυχολόγος, για τον ψυχικό αντίκτυπο της “διπλής ταυτότητας” των α...

Mikis was more than a musician; he was an intellectual, a political leader, an artist of protest and resistance, a figure that was larger than life and that identified himself with the inner soul of the country and its people. With this episode, we conclude our week-long tribute by turning to some relatively...

On this episode of Greek Music Express we celebrate the fascinating ways in which Mikis’ songs travelled around the world, in an international trajectory facilitated by top artists such as Jullie Dennis, Dalida, Edith Piaf, The Beatles, Shirley Bassey, Georges Moustaki, and of course, his Finnish m...

Milva, Liesbeth List, Gisela May, Edmonda Aldini, Christina Cunne, Maria del Mar Bonet – this episode's track list includes a prestigious list of popular female singers who recorded Mikis’ creations in Italian, German, Dutch… These collaborations demonstrate the global impact of an artist who was a...

On this episode, we celebrate the 100th birthday of not only the greatest Greek composer, but also the world’s greatest composer of songs of the 20th century. Our track list contains plenty of fascinating contemporary electronic remixes, reminding us of just how inherently modern and timeless Mikis T...

The week from July 28 to August 1 aboard GME, Voice of Greece’s English-speaking broadcast about Greek song, is dedicated to Greece’s most prominent composer, Mikis Theodorakis. The occasion? The celebration of 100 years of his presence in our musical and social affairs, as he was born on July 29, 192...

“Infinitely Curious“, the English-language program of Voice of Greece, poses a question that concerns us all: How can we adapt to extreme heat before it’s too late? As temperatures soar and summers become increasingly longer and harsher, who gets access to cool environments — and who doesn’t? From Athens to Ba...

Here come some of the coolest summertime tunes, revisited through fascinating remixes by dynamic artists such as Ekmek, Mikro, Stereomatic, Vptheo and Thanos Kalentinis. The past meets the present, colossal composers such as Mimis Plessas and Manolis Hiotis meet the contemporary touch of innovative...

Nikos Mamagakis was an internationally recognised figure of the music of the 20th century, with a massive contribution to the development of avant-garde. Of equal significance is his numerous collections of songs that span across various genres, from New Wave to art and folk. Mamagakis passed away on...

Demis Roussos is, together with Vangelis and Nana Mouskouri, the most recognizable Greek “brand” name in the field of music, having sold more than 50 million records in his unmatched career. His songs fully convey the Mediterranean summertime colours; as Roussos himself indicatively said: “The reaso...

When poet and lyricist Manos Eleftheriou was asked to write a short autobiographical note, he wrote the following text: “I was born in 1938 in Ermoupolis, Syros. I wrote poems, short stories and lyrics for many songs. I read many books, listened to a lot of music, saw places. I met great people and m...

Gerasimos Lavranos is basically known to everyone more as a soundtrack composer and not so much as a songwriter. Indeed, some well-known Greek films from the sixties and seventies had their music composed by him. Today, we will be appreciating the more cosmopolitan creations of this great jazzman that...

What makes a person climb 13 Alpine peaks — all above 4,000 meters — in just 4 days? In this breathtaking new episode of the English-language program “Infinitely Curious”, Katerina Batzaki follows Greek mountaineer Vasilis Vasilakis as he prepares to scale the highest ridges of the ...

Throughout the week that ends today, here at GME, we turned to the music of Epirus, a core type of Greek traditional music, and its main instrument: the Greek clarinet or clarino. Vassilis Soukas, Tassos Halkias, Giorgos Mangas, Manos Achalinotopoulos and Vassilis Saleas are the clarino instrumentalists...

Vasilis Saleas is the soloist who brought the Greek clarinet to the greatest music halls around the world. Self-taught, he inspired great composers and has managed for many years to "dress" everything he loves with his favorite musical instrument and its melodies. Vassilis Saleas, who grew up in a house...

Manos Achalinotopoulos considered by critics as the best clarinet performer of the new generation in Greece, was born and grew up in Athens. He started learning the flute and clarinet from a very early age. Manos Achalinotopoulos has travelled -playing clarinet, cawal and flutes- in more than 20 countries...