Concert in the ancient city of Aptera 7th August
An exceptional concert by Eleni and Suzana Vougioukli. Their repertoire consists of traditional songs of various ethnic groups: rembetika and traditional Greek songs in all dialects including that of the Greek speaking community of Southern Italy, Portuguese fado, Spanish, Sephardic, French, Italian, Romanian, Turkish, Arabic, Gypsy, Serb, American blues and jazz, Armenian, Pomak (a Slavic dialect of the Rhodopi mountain in N. Greece) and Bulgarian, as well as their own compositions.
WHEN: 7th August 21.00
WHERE: Aptera. For map click here.
Aptera, which was one of the most important city-states of Crete during the Minoan period, is located east of Chania, above Souda Bay.
About the artists:
Eleni and Souzana Vougioukli started exploring world music very early and went on to experiment with the potential of human voice as an innate musical instrument. With specific emphasis on the original language and appropriate respect for pronunciation and articulation of each individual form, they sing in more than twenty languages and dialects a capella or accompanied by piano, guitar and percussions, instruments they play themselves.
Eleni was born in Thessaloniki and grew up in Xanthi. She holds a BA in Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies of the University of Macedonia. She has also studied piano (from the age of four), music theory and solo including all classical, Byzantine and jazz. Similarly, she studied Byzantine and jazz theory and music. She began performing traditional Greek songs from the age of eight.
Souzana was born and raised in Xanthi. She is a graduate of the Mathematics Department of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki.
She has studied piano (from the age of four), guitar, advanced theory and solo, as well as jazz – song and theory. She is also involved in composing. She has studied classical, traditional and afro-jazz dancing, as well as theatrical performing. She speaks English, French and a little Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. The study of the relationship between music and mathematics is one of the things which especially interests her
Biography of the artists.
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