Achilleas Chalkias

(1937-2015) Born in Epirus. He comes from the renowned musicians’ family Chalkias and is the brother of Petro-Loukas Chalkias.

He plays the violin and his repertoire mostly includes tunes and songs of Epirus. He has participated in numerous musical events, as well as in various albums, among which are the following: Leventogenna Epirus (1981), Patimata (2001), and Epirotika (Songs of Epirus, 2002).

Songs

All the Captains’ Women
  • SongEpirusKlephtic Song

All the Captains’ Women

  • Όλες οι καπετάνισσες ⬥ Klephtic song from Epirus with Michalis Zambas. Recorded in 2004.
Songs of History and Heroes
  • SongEpirusKlephtic Song

Katsantonis

  • Κατσαντώνης ⬥ Tsamikos dance from Epirus with Michalis Zambas (singer) and Thodoris Georgopoulos (clarinet). Recorded in 2004.
Songs of History and Heroes
  • SongEpirusInstrumental

Lament

  • Μοιρολόι ⬥ Instrumental tune in free rhythm from Epirus with Thodoris Georgopoulos (clarinet). Recorded in 2004.
Of Nature and of Love
  • SongEpirusLove Song

Little Lemon Tree

  • Κοντούλα λεμονιά ⬥ Dance love song from Epirus with Michalis Zambas. Recorded in 2005.
Songs About Greeks Far From Home (LP)
  • SongEpirusPogoniImmigration Song

My Love-Bird Far Away from Home

(My Emigrated Bird)

  • Ξενιτεμένο μου πουλί ⬥ Immigration song from Pogoni, Epirus, with Savvas Siatras. Recorded in 1989.
Of Nature and of Love
  • SongEpirusLove Song

Virginada

  • Βιργινάδα ⬥ Dance song from Epirus with Michalis Zambas. Recorded in 2005.
Of Nature and of Love
  • SongEpirusLove Song

You, My Little Roses

  • Εσείς τριανταφυλλάκια μου ⬥ Dance song from Epirus with Michalis Zambas. Recorded in 2005.
Songs About Greeks Far From Home (LP)
  • SongEpirusImmigration Song

Your Kerchief, Yanni

  • Γιάννη μου το μαντίλι σου ⬥ Immigration song from Epirus with Savvas Siatras. Recorded in 1989.
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Records

Of Nature and of Love
  • AlbumCD, Digital release2006Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Of Nature and of Love

The down-to-earth love of nature in these folk songs doesn’t derive from any form of romantic nostalgia; it lies instead in a pure experience of everyday life.
Songs About Greeks Far From Home (LP)
  • AlbumCD, Digital release1992UNHCR – The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Songs About Greeks Far From Home

This CD, published by UNHCR with an informative booklet, includes sixteen songs narrating different aspects of migrating to foreign lands: departure and life in foreign lands; the lives of families left behind; death in foreign lands or a return home.
Songs About Greeks Far From Home (LP)
  • AlbumDigital release, LP1989UNHCR – The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Songs About Greeks Far From Home (LP)

This LP includes nineteen songs narrating all the different aspects of migrating in foreign lands: the departure and the life to foreign lands, the life of the family left behind, death in these foreign lands or the return home.
Songs of History and Heroes
  • AlbumCD, Digital release2007Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Songs of History and Heroes

The retelling of fine, magnificent, heroic deeds from the past has always inspired a future path for every nation, the weft on which its future is woven. Austere and Doric, as stern as the heroes they describe.
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