Have you ever heard of rebetiko? I hadn’t either until I read David Prudhomme’s graphic novel of the same name, which traces a day and a night in the lives of a group of musicians in Athens in the ...

Everyone knows bouzouki music: it's the sound of cliched touristic Greek entertainment, heard on debauched, ouzo-soaked nights in tavernas across the world. Few, however, know about this music's ...

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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Most tourists thronging Piraeus’s ferry port outside Athens will have heard bouzouki music — the plangent, lutelike ...

Once an underground rebel sound, the wailing “Greek blues” known as rebetiko has been embraced by young musicians both in Greece and in the Greek diaspora, including the members of the Greek Rebetiko ...

2 Natalie Bassingthwaighte and More to Star in WAITRESS Australian Premiere 3 Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Rob Mills and More to Lead WAITRESS Australia Premiere Rebetiko Festival will take over ...

Over a century since it was first played at cafes and tavernas of the poor on the Greek mainland and the Greek-speaking parts of the Ottoman Empire, rebetiko, dubbed the Greek blues, has now been ...

ATHENS, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Over a century since it was first played at cafes and tavernas of the poor on the Greek mainland and the Greek-speaking parts of the Ottoman Empire, rebetiko, dubbed the ...

Wikipedia defines Rebetiko primarily as “a term used to designate originally disparate kinds of urban Greek folk music”. These variants have been grouped together since the 1960s, the time of the ...

Rebetiko afficionados will have the opportunity to binge on rebetiko or "Greek blues", as it is known in Australia, on Saturday March the 10th in Melbourne's Recital Centre. Pliri Νtaxei, an up and ...