Yiorgos Bagiokis

Born in 1946 in Thessaloniki. He is an actor and a singer. He studied at the G. Theodosiadis Academy School of Drama and has collaborated with various troupes and groups.

He has also been active as a singer, taking part in many artists’ concerts in Greece and abroad. He was a student of Simon Karas and has collaborated with folk music artists.

Source: www.ntng.gr

Songs

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  • SongCarnival Song

An Old Woman, an Old Gran

  • Μια γριά μπαμπόγρια ⬥ Studio recording, 1980.
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  • SongSporadesSkiathosFable Song (Ballad), Ritual Song

Arta’s Βridge

  • Της Άρτας το γεφύρι ⬥ A team of forty stonemasons and sixty prentice workers were putting up a bridge across the river close by Arta. The whole day long they built the bridge, at night it was dismantled. A bird, a kindly bird, chirped up and counselled them as follows: [...]
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  • SongMacedoniaChristmas Carol, Ritual SongCarol

Christmas Carol (Macedonia)

  • Πόψα Χριστός γεννήθηκε ♦ From Yiorgos Ε. Papadakis’s archive.
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  • SongCentral GreeceFable Song (Ballad)

I Am a Fisherman’s Son

  • Εγώ ’μαι ’νους ψαρά παιδί ⬥ Studio recording, 1980. Domna Samiou taped the song in Kymi, Euboea, sung by Μr. Papantoniou, in 1976.
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  • SongMacedoniaHistorical Song

Nine Villages They Razed

  • Nine villages of ours they razed amán amán, and fifteen castles. Amán, come see the body you torture. And they took Náoussa, amán amán, the head village hearabouts. Amán, morning star, why so late in rising? An apple, amán, and another, amán night's here, but where can I sleep? They took [...]
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  • SongMacedoniaLove SongTable Song

Yesterday or the Day Before Yesterday I Passed by

  • Εψές προυψές επέρασα ⬥ Studio recording, 1973.
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Records

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  • AlbumCD2011Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Christmas, New Year and Epiphany Carols

Κάλαντα ευχές και παινέματα των Χριστουγέννων, της Πρωτοχρονιάς και των Φώτων. Άλλα λιγότερο κι άλλα περισσότερο γνωστά που προέρχονται από διάφορες περιοχές της Ελλάδας. Κυκλοφόρησε με την εφημερίδα "Ελεύθερος Τύπος" στις 30 Δεκεμβρίου 2011.
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  • AlbumLP1974EMI Columbia

Farewell Holy One

One of Domna Samiou’s most characteristic LPs through which younger generations familiarized themselves with traditional folk music. It combines an aesthetically meticulous edition with accurate interpretations and perfect recordings. The song 'Farewell Holy One' has been sung and danced so many times all around Greece and abroad that has been […]
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  • AlbumLP1980Zodiac

Perperouna

Domna’s first work for children came as a fulfilment of her constant aspiration to bring traditional folk songs closer to children –especially those living in the cities. Some of these sixteen traditional songs, with their ‘easy’ melodies, uplifting rhythms and amusing lyrics, were anyway sung by children –like 'Perperouna', 'Chelidonisma', […]
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  • AlbumCD, Digital release2007Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Songs of History and Heroes

The retelling of fine, magnificent, heroic deeds from the past has always inspired a future path for every nation, the weft on which its future is woven. Austere and Doric, as stern as the heroes they describe, these songs from history function both as chronicles and musical myths, and as […]
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