ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Popular Greek singer-songwriter Dionysis Savvopoulos, known for his allegorical and deeply poetic lyrics that commented on Greek politics, identity and society, has died. He was ...

When Vassilis Tsitsanis passed away on January 18, 1984, music historians and experts knew that there will never be another ...

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

Mimis Plessas, a beloved Greek composer whose music featured in scores of films, television shows and theatrical productions and who provided the soundtrack to millions of Greeks’ lives, has died just ...

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 ...

Under the direction of its Founder and Artistic Director, Dionysis Grammenos, Greek Youth Symphony Orchestra is comprised of 300 auditioned musicians, ages 18 - 26, from nearly 50 cities in Greece and ...

Semaphore Greek Festival transformed Adelaide’s foreshore, celebrating Greek culture as Premier Peter Malinauskas announced increased funding ...

ATHENS(Reuters) - Tucked away in a corner of Athens' historic Plaka district is a small museum showing that there is more to Greek music than "Zorba's Dance" and "Never on Sunday". In fact, the Museum ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Mimis Plessas, a ...