For the Ancient Greeks, music connected philosophy, medicine, and ethics, shaping both individual character and the common ...

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 ...

A tribute to Pantelis Volaris and the 50-year legacy of the Volaris Music Centre in Melbourne, celebrating his pivotal role ...

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 ...

EVROPOS, Greece, - 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 ...

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 ...

It looks like a mandolin, but it also looks like a guitar. And it makes the special sounds heard in Greek movies and at Greek restaurants. It’s called a bouzouki, and George Karidakis and his brother, ...

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 ...

37:00 Staying connected to the Greek Orthodox church 38:47 Holy Week at St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church 48:22 St. John the Baptist and the Greek American community Penny Zavichas was raised ...