Trigger Warning
"Humans spoke to birds through songs and the birds spoke back. It has been with songs that ancestors have sent their messages to the next generations." Manos Hadjidakis, the great, Oscar-winning composer of Greece used these words to describe the role of songs in shaping cultures throughout history. The Greek songs allowed for cultural elements from antiquity to survive over millennia, blend with the occasional temporal elements and together define the character of Greek songs across different eras. This performance will pay a musical tribute to the Greek song and narrate its history from the 19th century and the demotika folk songs until the 1960s and the songs of the Theodorakis -Hadjidakis deity. The band Chi-jazz is comprised of: Athina Malli: Vocals, Percussion Giorgos Soundoulidis: Vocals, Percussion Sofia Smyrnoudi: Piano, Vocals Giorgos Vasileiou: Guitar Rania Bampasi: Flute, hand percussion Christos Koukaras: Bouzouki, Vocals Petros Pechlivanoglou: Bouzouki, oud Narration: Panagiota Vogdou Giannis Dimitriou Artistic direction: Eirini Stoubou/ Rania Bampasi
Date
June 11, 2017
Location
Alliance Française de Toronto
24 Spadina Rd
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
