Wedding Songs

Unpublished collection of thirty-four traditional songs and tunes for the wedding feast, the bride, the groom, the best men and women and all the guests.

Production: Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association
Type: Unreleased collection

Collaborators

Production team

Domna Samiou (Research, Collection, Musical supervision)Socrates Sinopoulos (Musical supervision)Daphne Djaferis (Production management)Tasia Papanikolaou (Secretarial support)

Sound team

Yiorgos Karyotis (Sound engineer)Yiorgos Karyotis (Sound editing)Petros Siakavellas (Sound editing)Socrates Sinopoulos (Sound editing)

Singers

Domna Samiou (The Newlyweds Are Sleeping, Golden Table, Silver Plates, Wedding song (Peloponnese), I Bid Farewell to My Neighbourhood, Save Us Blessed Mary, Who Was the Matchmaker, )Meropi Yiannakou (Mother, at Noon, Come, Mother of the Groom, )Yannis Kladakis (Good Luck My Bride, Proceed, Cypress and Move, )Katerina Papadopoulou (Wedding song (Pouri), Bless Us, Christ and Holy Mary (1), If I Sing for the Groom, Tonight Is the Wedding Feast, )Ilias Zarokostas (A Wedding Rite, )Lambros Goumenos (Snow White Girl, )Ilias Yfantidis (Lassie, Leave Your Mother, )Yiorgos Karayannis (Barber, Your Razors, )Woman (Mother, Bless My Wedding, )Zabeta Ventouri-Veniou (Couplets for the Decoration of the Wedding Bed, )Athanasios Poulios (The Morning Star, )Thomas Vlemas (Song of the Co-Parents-In-Law, )Vassilis Karkantzos (Fortunate Bride, )Zacharias Karounis (Bless the Couple Holy Mary, My Fortunate Groom, )

Choir

Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association Choir (The Gown of the Bride, The Wedding Time Has Come, We Are Here to See You, Bless Us, Christ and Holy Mary (2), My Saint Theologos, The Newlyweds Are Sleeping, )Group from Tyros (Kynouria) (A Wedding Rite, )Group from Plataniotisa (Achaia) (The Sky Is Shining Today, )Group from Kymi (Euboea) (Blessed Time, )

Musicians

Clarinet

Achilles Chatzizissis (The Morning Star, )

Flute

Thodoris Georgopoulos (Save Us Blessed Mary, Wedding song (Peloponnese), )

Violin

Nikos Oikonomidis (Who Was the Matchmaker, Wedding song (Pouri), Save Us Blessed Mary, Wedding song (Peloponnese), Bless Us, Christ and Holy Mary (1), Wedding Processional Tune, Bless Us, Christ and Holy Mary (2), Golden Table, Silver Plates, Fortunate Bride, Bless the Couple Holy Mary, If I Sing for the Groom, My Fortunate Groom, Tonight Is the Wedding Feast, The Newlyweds Are Sleeping, )Anastasios Kokkinakis (Wedding Processional Tune From Samothrace, )

Thracian lyra

Thomas Vlemas (Song of the Co-Parents-In-Law, )

Pontic lyra

Ilias Yfantidis (Lassie, Leave Your Mother, )

Dodecanesian lyra

Yannis Kladakis (Good Luck My Bride, Proceed, Cypress and Move, )

Kanun

Panos Dimitrakopoulos (Who Was the Matchmaker, Golden Table, Silver Plates, )

Constantinopolitan lute

Socrates Sinopoulos (Who Was the Matchmaker, Wedding song (Pouri), Save Us Blessed Mary, Wedding song (Peloponnese), Bless Us, Christ and Holy Mary (1), Bless Us, Christ and Holy Mary (2), Golden Table, Silver Plates, Fortunate Bride, Bless the Couple Holy Mary, If I Sing for the Groom, My Fortunate Groom, Tonight Is the Wedding Feast, The Newlyweds Are Sleeping, )

Lute

Kostas Papaprokopiou (Who Was the Matchmaker, Good Luck My Bride, Wedding song (Pouri), Save Us Blessed Mary, Wedding song (Peloponnese), Bless Us, Christ and Holy Mary (1), Proceed, Cypress and Move, Wedding Processional Tune, Bless Us, Christ and Holy Mary (2), Golden Table, Silver Plates, Fortunate Bride, Bless the Couple Holy Mary, If I Sing for the Groom, My Fortunate Groom, Tonight Is the Wedding Feast, The Newlyweds Are Sleeping, )Panagiotis Kokkinakis (Wedding Processional Tune From Samothrace, )Athanasios Poulios (The Morning Star, )

Daouli (davul)

Vangelis Karipis (Wedding song (Pouri), Wedding song (Peloponnese), )

Goblet drum

Vangelis Karipis (Save Us Blessed Mary, Bless Us, Christ and Holy Mary (2), Fortunate Bride, If I Sing for the Groom, My Fortunate Groom, Tonight Is the Wedding Feast, The Newlyweds Are Sleeping, )

Bendir (frame drum)

Vangelis Karipis (Who Was the Matchmaker, Golden Table, Silver Plates, )Kostas Meretakis (Bless the Couple Holy Mary, )

Zil bells

Katerina Papadopoulou (If I Sing for the Groom, )

Bells

Katerina Papadopoulou (Bless Us, Christ and Holy Mary (1), Tonight Is the Wedding Feast, )

Informant (source of the song)

Meropi Yiannakou (Mother, at Noon, Wedding song (Pouri), Come, Mother of the Groom, )Nikos Karageorgiou (The Wedding Time Has Come, Golden Table, Silver Plates, )Ilias Zarokostas (A Wedding Rite, )Lambros Goumenos (Snow White Girl, )Yannis Tsirigotis (I Bid Farewell to My Neighbourhood, )Anastasios Kokkinakis (Wedding Processional Tune From Samothrace, )Yiorgos Karayannis (Barber, Your Razors, )Zabeta Ventouri-Veniou (Couplets for the Decoration of the Wedding Bed, )Thomas Vlemas (Song of the Co-Parents-In-Law, )Yiorgis Tzoumas (Fortunate Bride, )Ilias Diatsidis (Tonight Is the Wedding Feast, )

See also

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I Climbed up the Cherry-Tree

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The Boastful Partridge

  • Μια πέρτικα καυχήστηκε ⬥ A partridge fair bragged to all she met that there was no hunter in the land, no hunter in the land could bag her. When the hunter heard of her boast it piqued him not a little. He set his snares up on the mountain, and [...]
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My Royal-Born Pearl Pod

  • Γαμπρέ μου ρήγισσας παιδί ⬥ Son-in-law, royal-born pearl pod, God-fashioned pillar of the sun. The groom was not born of mortal womb, he’s the lemon tree’s abundant bloom. Son-in-law, please, I beg you and implore let your young bride come and visit us. Pray sing the praises of the groom [...]
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Come All You Birds

  • Ελάτε όλα τα πουλιά ⬥ Come all you birds to make dough, help O Virgin, now gold has merged with pearl, help O Virgin. I make a round loaf for the bridegroom, a round loaf for the groomsman, help O Virgin. A chestnut woven basket for them to take to [...]
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I Bid Farewell to My Neighbourhood

  • Αφήνω γεια στη γειτονιά ⬥ Studio recording, 1986. Domna Samiou taped the song in Ierissos, Chalkidiki, sung by Yannis Tsirigotis, Yiorgos Tzitzos, Nikos Partheniotis and Yannis Migdis, in 1972. They sing the song when the bride starts from her paternal home to go to church for the wedding ceremony.