Stavros Kapsalis

(1945-2019) Born in the village Zitsa of Ioannina, in Epirus, into a musical family. He began playing the clarinet at the age of twelve and his repertoire includes, apart from traditional songs of Epirus, traditional songs of Central Greece and of the Peloponnese.

Songs

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  • SongEpirusPogoniImmigration Song

My Love-Bird Far Away from Home

(My Emigrated Bird)

  • Ξενιτεμένο μου πουλί ⬥ My love-bird far away from home, my love who’s broken-hearted, – o, absent love of mine, those foreign lands greet you with joy, while I am pining for you. What should I send you, absent love, to you so far from home now. I send an apple [...]
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  • SongEpirusImmigration Song

Your Kerchief, Yanni

  • Γιάννη μου το μαντίλι σου ⬥ Your kerchief, Yanni, dearest love, why is it soiled and dirty? Come, Yanni, come, Yannaki dear, come now my handsome fellow. T’was soiled while I was far from home, in distant lonely places. O mother dear, they stole my heart, they stole my heart [...]
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Records

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  • 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. It marks a new direction to Domna Samiou’s music publications: […]
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  • 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. This publication of the UNHCR, with its informative accompanying booklet, introduces […]
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