Antonis Leontidis was born in 1996 in Athens. He comes from the village of Margarites, Mylopotamos, on his mother’s side and from Pontos, on his father’s side. He started learning Cretan lyre at the age of nine with teacher Panos Gotsis and then for a number of years with teacher George Skordalos. He has also been taught by many and remarkable teachers […]

The Piano. There it stands, thrifty and imposing, a non-portable mechanical miracle of the western world. Α mix of cast iron and wood, while its strings count over ten centuries of evolution. The barrel organ, distant relative of the piano, portable, always decorated with golden jewelry, old coins, and women’s paintings, carries over the same music from city to city and place […]

Kyratzides is a greek traditional music group that focuses mainly on the musical tradition of Pindos and expands throughout Greece: from Roumeli, Moria, Epirus and Thessaly to Thrace, Macedonia and the greek islands . We can find them in big concerts, in local and tradiotional festivals inside and outside Greece, in performances of greek traditional dance clubs and in social events. Achilles […]

Laikindia bridges Bollywood in India with the Greek folk music of the 60’s. It presents a selection of the “Hindu” folk songs, which were very popular in Greece in the period 1955-1965, connecting them with their original form from the Indian films of the time and the charming protagonists such as Nargis and Mandumbala. In the Laikindia covers, the great folk hits […]

Sofia Labropoulou is a Kanun player and composer who has developed a distinctsound from masterfully blending the worlds of Greek folk and Eastern-Mediterranean musical traditions, as well as western Medieval, free-improvisation and contemporary music.Classically trained with piano and theory since age of 8, it was instant love when she first encountered the kanun almost a decade later. With her Byzantine music diploma […]

Natalia Kotsani, is the lead singer and percussionist of the acclaimed band encardia, touring and giving seminars throughout Europe, having linked her name with the world jazz music and the songs of the Mediterranean. She is a singer, composer, producer, pianist, accordionist and percussionist, and since 2009 she has been producing and presenting her solo projects. Her research interests pertaining to the […]