Vangelis Dimoudis

Born in 1954 in Karoti, a village of Didymoteicho in the Evros Prefecture of Thrace. He is a dancer, a dance master, an oudist, and a singer.

In 1972, together with the dance music group of his village, he visited Athens to present dances from Thrace at the theatre ‘Dora Stratou’, where he remained for twenty years.

Since 1983 he has been collaborating with his fellow villager and teacher in singing Chronis Aidonidis. He has also collaborated with various significant artists of traditional music, and has taken part in concerts throughout Greece and abroad.

He has participated in many albums; his personal discography includes the albums: Tragoudia tis B. Thrakis (Songs of N. Thrace, 1979), Poulaki klaiei monacho (1997), and Iliovasilema ston Evro (2004).

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Songs

The Great North Wind and Other Traditional Songs for Children
  • SongThraceEvros, KarotiHistorical Song, National Legends and Laments

Alexander and the King

  • Αλέξαντρος κι βασιλιάς ⬥ Alexander, bre aman aman, Alexander and the king, Alexander brave and strong and little Constantine. They ate together, bre aman aman, they ate and drank together, Alexander brave and strong, and feasted and revelled together. And as they ate and as they drank and as they revelled they [...]
Songs of Dame Sea
  • SongEastern Thrace & RoumeliaLove Song

At the Casement of the House

  • Στ'ς παπαδιάς τα παραθύρια ⬥ Dance love song from Eastern Thrace with Vangelis Dimoudis. Recorded in 2000.
Three Black-Eyed Girls
  • SongThraceImmigration Song

Between Two Mountains

  • Σε δυο βουνά ανάμεσα ⬥ Dance song from Thrace with Vangelis Dimoudis. Recorded in 2006.
The Great North Wind and Other Traditional Songs for Children
  • SongThraceEvros, SoufliChildren's Song, Lampoon

Down on the Barbary Plane

  • Κάτου στ'ς Μπαρμπαριάς τουν κάμπου ⬥ Children’s satirical song from Thrace with Vangelis Dimoudis and a children’s choir. Recorded in 2005.
Folk Fables in Song
  • SongEastern Thrace & RoumeliaFable Song (Ballad), Philosophical Song

I Passed by and Bade Good Day

  • Πέρασα καλημέρισα ⬥ Fable song from Bana, Eastern Roumelia, with Vangelis Dimoudis. Recorded in 2006.
I Will Climb a Mountain High
  • SongThraceEvros, AmbelakiaLove Song

I Will Climb a Mountain High

  • Θ' ανέβω σε ψηλό βουνό ⬥ Dance song from Ambelakia, Orestiada (Evros), with Vangelis Dimoudis. Recorded in 2005.
Folk Fables in Song
  • SongEastern Thrace & RoumeliaFable Song (Ballad), Prison Song

No Father Had I

(The Wine Bearer)

  • Εγώ είμαι ορφανό παιδί ⬥ Fable song (ballad), a syrtos dance from Eastern Roumelia with Vangelis Dimoudis. Recorded in 2006.
Of Nature and of Love
  • SongThraceEvros, KarotiFor Saint John of Kledon, Ritual Song

Saint John

  • Αγιόγιαννης ⬥ Saint John’s herb Saint John’s herb with its short black leaves. Two herbs fell out over which smelled the finest. Basil smells fine which grows in ditches and the rose, too, that sprout from thorns, and the stinkweed, too, its stench fills the plains. Get thee back, stinkweed, [...]
Folk Fables in Song
  • SongEastern Thrace & RoumeliaFable Song (Ballad)

The Dead Brother

  • Του νεκρού αδελφού ⬥ What a mother, vai aman aman, what a fine mother, what a mother, ela giareni mou ela, what a fine mother is she with, vai aman aman, with the nine sons and, ela giareni mou ela, the only daughter. Matchmakers came from Babylon to take Areti far away to foreign [...]
Songs of Dame Sea
  • SongThraceEvros, KarotiFable Song (Ballad)

The Son of the Armenian

  • Τ’ Αρμένου γιός πινέθηκε ⬥ The son of the Armenian boasted, my beautiful blue eyes, to a pasha, his master, sing my lovely nightingale. – My master, I shall cross the sea, on foot I shall cross it. – And if you cross the sea that way, you’ll be my son-in-law. Do [...]
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Records

Carnival Songs with Domna in Thessaloniki (Live)
  • AlbumCD, Digital release1994Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Carnival Songs

Carnival songs with their ritual bawdiness – ‘sacred in the profane’ – disturbed the prudish devotees of tradition. The recordings come with a detailed booklet analysing the pagan and ritualistic context in which these songs are performed.
Carnival Songs with Domna in Thessaloniki (Live)
  • AlbumDigital release, LP1994Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Carnival Songs (LP)

These “sacred in the profane” songs of the Carnival with their ritual bawdiness disturbed the prudish “devotees” of tradition. The records are accompanied by a detailed booklet analyzing the pagan and ritualistic context in which these songs are performed.
Of Nature and of Love
  • AlbumDVD2007Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Domna Samiou Sings Songs of Nature and of Love

This videotaped stage performance, held at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus on 2005, includes songs and rituals related to the cycle of the agricultural year,.
Folk Fables in Song
  • AlbumCD, Digital release2008Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Folk Fables in Song

Tales of the fabulous and the fantastic combining the real world with the supernatural. Narrating stories, often tragic, which might once have occurred – or could do so one day.
Of Nature and of Love
  • AlbumCD, Digital release2006Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Of Nature and of Love

The down-to-earth love of nature in these folk songs doesn’t derive from any form of romantic nostalgia; it lies instead in a pure experience of everyday life.
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. It marks a new direction to Domna Samiou’s music publications: […]
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. This publication of the UNHCR, with its informative accompanying booklet, introduces […]
Songs of Dame Sea
  • AlbumCD, Digital release2002Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Songs of Dame Sea

The wealth of Greek traditional music has been enriched by every aspect of maritime tradition – by its values, virtues and charm – as is amply demonstrated by this wonderful collection of songs.
Three Black-Eyed Girls
  • AlbumDigital releaseDomna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

The Earth’s Three Bounties

Wheat, wine, oil He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for people to cultivate· bringing forth food from the earth: wine that gladdens human hearts, oil to make their faces shine, and bread that sustains their hearts (Psalm 104, 15)
The Great North Wind and Other Traditional Songs for Children
  • AlbumCD, Digital release2007Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

The Great North Wind and Other Traditional Songs for Children

This CD is a good companion to those who want to offer their children a hint of a different magical world.
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Concerts

Domna Samiou Sings Songs of Nature and of Love
  • Συναυλία
  • 11/10/2005

Domna Samiou Sings Songs of Nature and of Love

Traditional songs and events that follow the course of the cycle of the year. Starting from the autumn, which marks the beginning of the working and ecclesiastical year, a harvest revival, events of the twelve days of Christmas, Easter festivities, Saint John of Kledon customs, and summer festive events.
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