Soultana Bogri

She was born in 1920 in the village of Roda on the Kyzikos peninsula, Sea of Marmara. After the Catastrophe (1922), her family moved to the village of Nea Roda, Chalkidiki. There, in 1984, Domna Samiou met her and recorded her.

 

Songs

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  • SongPropontisRodaFable Song (Ballad)

As Long as the Shore

(The Maid Slain by Her Brothers)

  • Όσο ’ναι μάκρος του γιαλού ⬥ As long as the shore, as long as the shore and as wide as the sea, that’s the span of the yarn a maid had laid out in her yard for weaving. The king’s son passed by and bade her good morning: – A [...]
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Records

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  • AlbumCD, Digital release2008Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Folk Fables in Song

In fables, fragments of ancient myths are preserved. On this CD, Domna Samiou & her collaborators sing tales of the fabulous and the fantastic combining the real world with the supernatural and narrating stories, often tragic, which might once have occurred – or could do so one day – however […]
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See also

  • SongPropontisMudaniaLove Song

Early last summer

  • Πέρσι το καλοκαιράκι ⬥ Early last summer I set my sights on a little bird But chase as I would, lust as I might, She’d always take flight. She spread her wings, prepared to fly up to heaven, Fetch back an angel and empty the seven… Empty the seven seas [...]
  • SongPropontisFable Song (Ballad)Table Song

A Maid Was Singing

(The Wife Scorned)

  • Κοράσιν ετραγούδαγε ⬥ A maid was singing in a high-walled palace. The wind swept her voice out to sea and every ship that heard it reefed its sails. Save one love-lorn ship that knows what friendship means that neither gathering its sheets nor lowering them trimmed its sails and set [...]
  • SongPropontisSea and Sailors Song

I Wish for All the Months in Turn

  • Όλους τους μήνες τους θέλω ⬥ I wish for all the months in turn, await them all with longing, but not, o not, the month of March when folks embark on travel. That month fits galleys out for sea and slips a vessel’s moorings. My husband also makes to go, [...]
  • SongPropontisMarmaraLove Song

Karsilamas dance from Marmara

  • Μαρμαρινός καρσιλαμάς ⬥ May this Bálos last, last until morning that the girls may dance with their mates! Ah, my barber boy, come, embrace my neck.1 Black eyes of mine and sweet, why are you angry? Did perhaps your mother scold you about me? I saw eyes and eyebrows and [...]
  • SongPropontisMarmaraSea and Sailors Song, Work Song

Selim

  • Σελίμ ⬥ Our boat is rigged, élessa-yialéssa, and goes to cast nets, elessa-yialessa. Élli, yiamóli, yiássa, íssa, hó! Vré háide, vré hoúide, tsalapalatsíngo! We cast our nets at Kerassia*, élessa-yialéssa, and drew three thousand, élessa-yialéssa. We took them to Marmara, élessa-yialéssa, and we made money, élessa-yialéssa. *village on the Thracian [...]