Antonis Kyritsis

Born and raised in the village Koskinas, in the Karditsa Prefecture, Thessaly. His love for traditional music grew as a child, his father being the chanter and teacher of the village. He studied Byzantine music and Orthophony in Athens.

He has collaborated with many musicians in various music venues, and mostly with the renowned clarinetist Petros-Loukas Chalkias, who has been his collaborator for thirty years.

He has participated in numerous concerts, in Greece and abroad, in collaboration with Greek and foreign artists –such as Ross Daly– as well as with an Indian band, managing to marry the music of Epirus with that of India.

He has circulated many albums, two of which have been awarded the Gold Record – Moraitika1 and Epirotika 1.

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Songs

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  • SongCentral GreeceViotia, ArachovaFable Song (Ballad), Ritual Song

A Festival Is Being Held

  • Πανηγυράκι γίνεται (Local Dance of Saint George) ⬥ A festival is being held, high up around Saint George’s. – Salutations, Frankish lord! A multitude was at the feast and there was little water, – Coming ! Out of there! Show me! A ribbon and a maypole, a ribbon loosely woven, [...]
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  • SongEpirusKlephtic Song

At Tserítsiana’s Well

  • Στη βρύση στα Τσερίτσιανα ⬥ At the well of Tserítsiana, in the heart of the land, hail fine fellows, there were Bulubasiades watching. There were Bulubasiades and there were Margaritiotes. And they watched the Souliots waging war [how children fought, and women like their menfolk], how Tzavelas’ wife fought like [...]
Σαββάτο μέρα πέρασα
  • SongCentral GreeceHistorical Song

I Passed by One Saturday

  • Σαββάτο μέρα πέρασα ⬥ One Saturday I passed through Mesolonghi, – hail fine fellows, ’twas Palm Saturday I remember. Palm Saturday it was, Saint Lazarus’ day and the air was thick with manly sobs and women’s lamentations. ’Tis not the killing pricked their tears, and ’twas not murder neither; they’re [...]
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  • SongEpirusFable Song (Ballad)

My Son, Why Dont You Go and Wash?

(Necrolatric Dance of Easter)

  • Γιε μου γιατί δε λούζεσαι ⬥ – My son, why don’t you go and wash, why don’t you change your clothing? Today, my child, is Easter Day, you’ll go and take communion. – No, mother, you must know I sinned while I was in the fighting. The other men all [...]
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  • SongEpirusEaster Song, Lament, Ritual Song

Today, dear George…

(Necrolatric Dance of Easter)

  • Σήμερα Γιώργη μ’ Πασχαλιά ⬥ Today, dear George, is Easter Day, my dearest George, my dearest George, Today’s a major holiday, my dearest George, my handsome boy. Today young men dress in their best, and join the promenade. But you, dear George, did not show up, to join the promenade. [...]
Παιδιά μ’ σαν θέλτε λεβεντιά
  • SongMacedoniaKlephtic Song

When You Dream of Brave Deeds

  • Παιδιά μ’ σαν θέλτε λεβεντιά ⬥ When you dream of brave deeds, my black-fated sons, when you dream of bravery, of taking to the hills, ask me first about a klepht’s hard life. For a captain I was o’er twelve long years. And ’twas battles all day and watch all [...]
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Records

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  • AlbumCD, Digital release1998Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Easter Songs

This significant edition aims to convey the spirit of Easter, the Christian feast celebrated amidst the glory and promise of springtime, through the selected rituals of that period of the year and their related sacred songs and tunes. (barcode: 5204910000524)
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  • 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, these songs from history function both as chronicles and musical myths, and as […]
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