Charilaos Tsaktsiras

Born in Tsopela Pramanton in the Ioannina region, Charilaos Tsaktiras attended the seminary of Vella. In parallel to his teacher training, he pursued studies in Byzantine music.

In 1979 he was appointed as a school teacher in Athens and also began to perform as a musician of folk songs and rebetika, playing the three chorded bouzouki.

In 1990 he set up, together with friends, the "Rebetiko Scholarheio", a workshop devoted to the study of Rebetiko music. It was in one of the Monday meetings of the workshop in the Holargos suburb in Athens, that he met Domna Samiou. That is where she proposed that he participates in the recording sessions for her Carnival Songs. Their collaboration continued and he participated in concerts with Domna Samiou, including importantly her concert at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall.

Since 1998 Charilaos Tsaktsiras lives in Ioannina, where together with a group of prominent musicians, he covers the repertoire of the early Rebetika singers.

Source: Charilaos Tsaktsiras

Songs

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  • SongCentral GreeceEuboea, Agios DimitriosBawdy Song, Carnival Song

Auntie Nikolakaina (Explicit)

  • Θεια μου Νικολάκαινα ⬥ Auntie Nikolakena, you haven’t acted very wisely; you silly bitch, you’ve sent your girl to gather sticks for kindling. The young lad at the trysting-place now holds her firmly by the hand. I pull her this way, she pulls that; the good Lord wills it so: [...]
Εξώφυλλο 2 DVD Τα Αποκριάτικα με τη Δόμνα Σαμίου
  • SongCentral GreeceEuboea, Agios DimitriosBawdy Song, Carnival Song

Auntie Nikolakaina (Explicit)

  • Θεια μου Νικολάκαινα   The song has explicit lyrics, and you can watch the video on YouTube if you're over 18. ⬥ Auntie Nikolakena, you haven’t acted very wisely; you silly bitch, you’ve sent your girl to gather sticks for kindling. The young lad at the trysting-place now holds her [...]
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  • SongMacedoniaBawdy Song, Carnival Song

Now List, Good Man (Explicit)

  • Γι’ ακούσατε τι θα σας πω ⬥ Now list, good man, just list to me, to what I have to tell. Just list to what I have to tell of what befell a widow, a wretched widow she. The widow woman lost her cunt and says I took it from [...]
Εξώφυλλο 2 DVD Τα Αποκριάτικα με τη Δόμνα Σαμίου
  • SongMacedoniaBawdy Song, Carnival Song

Now List, Good Man (Explicit)

  • Γι’ ακούσατε τι θα σας πω The song has explicit lyrics, and you can watch the video on YouTube if you're over 18. ⬥ Now list, good man, just list to me, to what I have to tell. Just list to what I have to tell of what befell a [...]
Εξώφυλλο 2 DVD Τα Αποκριάτικα με τη Δόμνα Σαμίου
  • SongDodecaneseKarpathosBawdy Song, Carnival Song

Yannaros Expired (Explicit)

  • Ο Γιάνναρος επόθανε The song has explicit lyrics, and you can watch the video on YouTube if you’re over 18. ⬥ Yannaros –eh, boom-boom-boom– Yannaros expired. Yannaros expired and willed, that son of Satan willed they weren’t to bury him against a church nor monastery, but only at a cross-road [...]
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Records

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  • AlbumCD, Digital release1994Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Carnival Songs

The most famous publication of the Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association. These Carnival songs with their ritual bawdiness – ‘sacred in the profane’ – disturbed the prudish devotees of tradition. The recordings (on CD and double LP) come with a detailed booklet analysing the pagan and ritualistic context in […]
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  • AlbumDigital release, LP1994Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Carnival Songs (LP)

The most famous publication of Domna Samiou’s Association. These ‘sacred in the profane’ songs of the Carnival with their ritual bawdiness disturbed the prudish ‘devotees’ of tradition. The records (in LP and CD) are accompanied by a detailed booklet analysing the pagan and ritualistic context in which these songs are […]
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  • AlbumDigital release, DVD2009Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Carnival Songs with Domna in Thessaloniki (Live)

This recorded show includes stage performances of carnival songs and other related popular rituals from different areas of Greece, as they were presented at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall on the 4th of March 2003. Watch the songs in a PlayList on YouTube.
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Concerts

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  • Concert
  • 04/03/2003

Carnival Songs with Domna Samiou

A carnival feast at the stage of the Thessaloniki Concert Hall with songs, dances, and customs of the carnival period. In addition to Domna and her collaborators, musicians, singers, dancers and bands from regions of Greece take part, where even today the celebrations and rituals of Carnival maintain their authenticity.
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