Publication on the concert Carnival Songs with Domna Samiou (Thessaloniki Concert Hall, 2003) The grand lady of our traditional songs, Mrs. Domna Samiou, together with her regular collaborators and other musicians, will present a performance of carnival songs from various areas of Greece at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall on two [...]
At 74, Samiou holds the wealth of Greek traditional song in her hands and voice. The demotika singer speaks to the 'Athens News' about folk music, the need to preserve it and state indifference ⬥ She was born in the poor district of Kaisariani to parents from Asia Minor in [...]
Publication on the concert with akritic songs in Paris, in Saint Denis, in June 1982. French newspapers report that the audience did not let Domna Samiou leave the stage for many minutes, applauding our exceptional artist and Greek music. On Friday night, at the large musical festival of St Denis [...]
A double CD with tradiotional Greek Easter songs compiled by Domna Samiou ⬥ Interview on the occasion of the release of the album "Easter Songs", extract. Anything you ever wanted to know about traditional Greek Easter song and festivities but couldn't even fathom to ask is included in Ta Paschaliatika [...]
The voice of Domna Samiou brings down walls, penetrates cement, rises to the fourteen-day Moon, accompanies it in an amorous way, and under the sound of traditional instruments –the bagpipe, the clarinet, the goblet drum– they start a dance and make a mock of the imported ‘Saint Valentine’ and of [...]
Publication on the release of the album "Folk Fables in Song". The paraloges [folk fables] are songs which narrate a story, or a legend. They frequently contain supernatural elements and feature spirits, even though their origins may often lie in age old legends, historical incidents or most commonly, in events [...]
Domna Samiou and Christos Sikkis ⬥ Publication on the concerts From Pontus … to Cyprus, Cyprus 1990 - extract The Cultural Foundation of the Bank of Cyprus, continuing it's excellent events, is organising three concerts within the rubric of its Third Annual Musical Event in Lefkosia, Paralimni and Lemesos, called [...]
Domna Samiou or the songs of the Full Moon ⬥ Publication on the concert in honor of Samuel Baud-Bovy in Geneva in 1988 (extract). Under a sky lit by the full moon people crowd to overflowing the raised tent. There are smells of fried food, the noise of chatting diners. [...]
Publication on the concerts of Domna Samiou's group at the English Bach Festival (1975) What may appear at a casual glance to be the sideshows of the English Bach Festival are in fact a calculated plan to expand our horizons, increase our knowledge and intensify our pleasure. The Greek and [...]
Publication on the concerts of Domna Samiou’s group at the English Bach Festival (1975) Greek music and dance is more pleasurably at home in the open air or the tavernas of its native land than in a London concert hall. But Domna Samiou and her group compensated for the formal [...]
