Thanks to the ground broken by Greek-American actor/writer Nia Vardalos' smash 2002 film and recently premiered TV series based on her family experiences, the stars currently seem fortuitously aligned ...

No historical evidence exists to tell us who sang the first song, or made the first rhythmic sounds that resembled music.

In Evropos, a village in northern Greece, Danis Koumartzis carves out the wooden sound box of a traditional lyre before covering it with animal hide and attaching nine strings that when plucked ...

Music has been with humans for a very, very long time. But as time marches on, history can lose the records of what that music sounded like. Take the Greeks for example. We can see the stadiums and ...

Natassa Bofiliou & Giannis Haroulis Lead a Global Celebration of Greece's Musical Masters, featuring special guest star Judy Kuhn. ATHENS, Greece, Nov. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Hellenic Music Ensemble ...

Reviewed Work: Documents of Ancient Greek Music. The Extant Melodies and Fragments Edited and Transcribed with Commentary by E. Pöhlmann, M. L. West Cambridge University Press (www.cambridge.org) is ...

His 1969 composition "O Dromos" remains one of the highest-selling albums in Greek history. By Associated Press Mimis Plessas, a beloved Greek composer whose music featured in scores of films, ...

Legendary clarinetist Petroloukas Halkias and millennial laouto player Vasilis Kostas both hail from the same region of Greece — Epirus — and Halkias even played at Kostas’ parents’ wedding. But the ...

Hotels, airports and shopping malls in Greece could be forced to play more domestically-made music under new legislation proposed by the Culture Ministry, intended to support Greek composers and ...

It is almost time to start looking ahead to the summer months when all sorts of exciting events happen. Festivals, fiestas and concerts are on the horizon and some musicians from the Greek scene have ...