The beloved painting titled The Carols (Greek: Ta Kalanta) was produced in 1872 by the reputable Greek painter Nikiforos Lytras.

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 ...

Greece is steeped in fascinating holiday traditions, with its Christmas carols, or kalanda, being some of the most ...

Thanks to a classicist’s research, the sounds of ancient Greek music can be heard again. Scholars have long been familiar with the instruments used during the era, and, of course, with the texts by ...

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 ...

Headlining the New Orleans Greek Festival is not like most fests. It means performing on several days, and it helps to be able to please different festgoers’ tastes, from traditional music to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anefani Productions, in collaboration with London Greek Radio, are proud to present Peggy Zina live in London on Sunday 25 ...

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 ...