Ilias Soukas

He was born in 1935 in Komboti, Arta, into the fourth generation of a family of musicians — he learned violin from his father. His extensive repertoire includes songs from Asia Minor, Epirus, the islands, and Roumeli (Central Greece).

Source: Yiorgos E. Papadakis’ archive

Songs

Songs About Greeks Far From Home (LP)
  • SongThessalyMagnesia, TrikeriFable Song (Ballad)

A Fair Trikeriotissa

  • Μια κόρη Τρικεριώτισσα ⬥ Fable song (ballad) from Trikeri, Magnesia, with Domna Samiou. Recorded in 1989.
Songs About Greeks Far From Home (LP)
  • SongMacedoniaImmigration Song

The Wretched Mother Kneaded Dough

  • Του ναύτη η μάνα ⬥ Immigration song from Macedonia with Domna Samiou. Recorded in 1989.
Songs About Greeks Far From Home (LP)
  • SongThessalyImmigration Song

When You Go off Abroad, My Love

  • Σαν πας πουλί μ’ στην ξενιτιά ⬥ Immigration dance song from Thessaly with Chrysostomos Mitropanos. Recorded in 1989.
Songs About Greeks Far From Home (LP)
  • SongMacedoniaImmigration Song

White Doves O Mine, White Ring-Doves

  • Άσπρα μου περιστέρια ⬥ Immigration song from Macedonia with Domna Samiou. Recorded in 1989.
Songs About Greeks Far From Home (LP)
  • SongThessalyMagnesia, KeramidiImmigration Song

Yorgalakis

  • Ο Γιωργαλάκης ⬥ Immigration song from Keramidi, Magnesia, with Domna Samiou. Recorded in 1989.
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Records

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.
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