Domna Samiou performs every Monday at the 'Kyttaro' ⬥ Publication on the concerts at 'Kyttaro' - extract If you happen to wonder into the 'Kyttaro' on Epirou street on a Monday night, and hear Domna Samiou singing the Tzivaeri or Your Kerchief Yanni, there is no doubt that you will feel [...]
A folk musician since her childhood, a singer whose vocal potential adapts to the special demands of the repertoire of almost all regions of Greece, Domna Samiou is the only one who could gather around her Greece’s top singers and instrumentalists. The reason is very simple: musicians recognize her as [...]
Publication on the release of the LP ‘Ethnologie Vivante: Grèce’ in France in 1970. Why are the albums in this extraordinary Ethnologie Vivante collection so rare?... Probably because authenticity is rare, because it takes intelligence and patience to bring together such sound documents and give them the setting they deserve: [...]
In the post-war contemporary Greek society, Domna Samiou is considered as something more than a simple interpreter of traditional music or researcher and collector of folklore music material or album and radio/television producer or a traditional music teacher. She represents, in fact, something more than the sum of all these [...]
What makes Domna Samiou a distinct and unique phenomenon, is not that she is steeped in tradition, but that she herself is creating tradition. She does not mimic any one traditional style or school, but whatever she sings becomes an established form and interpretation. She does not want to feign [...]
Restoration or renovation? ⬥ Publication on the occasion of the release of the album Kaneloriza, extracts Restoration or renovation? It is probably a false dilemma. Not that there is no dispute as to how we should treat our traditional music and songs. There is, and at times it acquires the [...]
I knew Domna long before we met. When I was a student in England, during the Greek Junta, Domna Samiou's archetypal voice was my concept of Greece. She connected me with my Greek origin, and the wide variety of tunes from all around Greece -which Domna sought to present in [...]
