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PublicationsLambros Liavas16/12/1995NewspaperEleftherotypia
- Publication on the occasion of the release of the album Kaneloriza, extracts It is twenty five years since Domna Samiou, the 'great lady' of Greek folk singing, recorded her first LP as an interpreter of our musical tradition in 19711 (she had already been involved in record production since 19582). At [...]
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- 02/09/2001
A concert for children performed by children with traditional songs, dances, games and reenactment of folk customs. Twelve children’s groups from Epirus, Kalyvia of Attica, Crete, Karpathos, Olympus, Zefyri of Attica, from Nea Erythraea representing the Asia Minor tradition, Volakas of Drama, Skyros, Larissa, the “Argonauts-Komninoi” from Kallithea, Kozani and […]
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SongMacedoniaKavala, NikisianiLove Song
- Μια γαλάζια περιστέρα ⬥ A blue dove, oh, a blue dove flew by. Flying from mountain to mountain she was searching for her mate. My love so far away, tell me, my love in a foreign land, how I can wait? Translated by Michael Eleftheriou
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SongThessalyFor the Bride, Wedding Song
- Άγουρος από Σερή ⬥ Studio recording, 1964. Released in 45 rpm disc (Fidelity 7315, 1964) supervised by Domna Samiou.
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SongThessalyLarissa, TyrnavosBawdy Song, Carnival Song
- Ένα μουνί παινεύτηκε ⬥ A braggart of a cunt declaimed to East and West alike that there was not a cock at hand to come along and fuck it. My cock, which soon got wind of this, was very much offended. It got its balls to serve as wings and [...]
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SongMacedoniaHistorical Song
- Λεβέντης εξεκίνησε ⬥ A brave young lad set out for Macedonia, where Pavlos men was gathering, men in whom the spirit of Twenty One lived on. – Boys, Kastoria is calling for our help, Kastoria and all of Macedonia. Grevena has bid us come. I’d bridge every gorge and every [...]
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PublicationsG.D.K.S.14/10/2005NewspaperTa Nea
- Publication on the concert Domna Samiou Sings Songs of Nature and of Love, Odeon of Herodes Atticus (2005) It was a breath! A breath of fresh air! Mrs Domna Samiou's concert at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus. Although the term 'concert' is not really appropriate for the event, since it [...]
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PublicationsMeri Avgerinopoulou13/11/1999NewspaperAdesmeftos Typos
- Domna Samiou at the Athens Concert Hall ⬥ Domna Samiou, the lady we all owe so much gratitude to for her monumental work, with a lifetime which reads like a story, presented her new CD Domna Samiou At Megaron, The Athens Concert Hall. 'Is there a consciousness of the debt [...]
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SongPontusImmigration Song, Wedding Song
- Ένα καράβι κρητικό ⬥ – A Cretan ship, nor large nor small, just two and forty cubits long, brought me to strange and unknown lands. – O alien, exiled far from home, you walk in strange and unknown lands. – T’was here what I did take to wife a Frankish [...]
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SongThessalyLarissa, DrymosBawdy Song, Carnival Song
- Ένα μουνί στην κερασιά ⬥ A cunt, my friend, a cunt, a cunt up in the cherry-tree. A cunt up in the cherry-tree, the cock way down below. Five times in all he makes his plaint: – O cunt, come down from there. “I’ll not come down, you hugeous prick, [...]
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SongCycladesParosFable Song (Ballad)
- Μια λυγερή τραγούδησε ⬥ A fair maid did sing out in the moonlight, but the gentle wind took her song and swept it out to sea and every boat that heard it reefed its sails save a boat from Sfakiá with its Cretan crew that could neither reef sails nor [...]
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SongCentral GreeceEuboea, Agios DimitriosFable Song (Ballad)
- Κόρη ξανθή τραγούδησε ⬥ A fair maid did sing upon a rope bridge, but the bridge collapsed, and the river stood still. And the river spirit came to her and asked: – Girl, if you are still a maid, may you never know a man, and if you’ve children and [...]
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SongThessalyMagnesia, TrikeriFable Song (Ballad)
- Μια κόρη Τρικεριώτισσα ⬥ A fair Trikeriotissa, a comely Trikeri girl, is mistress of a silver loom that has an ivory heddle. As she spooled threads on reels of reed and softly sang a ballad, her goodman rode up to her door astride a coal-black stallion. – A greeting to [...]
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SongCentral GreeceViotia, ArachovaFable Song (Ballad), Ritual Song
- Πανηγυράκι γίνεται (Local Dance of Saint George) ⬥ A festival is being held, high up around Saint George’s. – Salutations, Frankish lord! A multitude was at the feast and there was little water, – Coming ! Out of there! Show me! A ribbon and a maypole, a ribbon loosely woven, [...]
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SongEpirusLove Song
- Βασιλικός θα γίνω ⬥ Studio recording, 1959. One of the most popular songs from Epirus and a characteristic dance of the Pogoni province.
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SongDodecaneseImmigration SongCouplets
- Ο ξένος μες στην ξενιτιά ⬥ Studio recording, in 1966. Released in extended play 45 rpm disc (Fidelity 8054, 1966) supervised by Domna Samiou.
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SongMacedoniaChalkidiki, IerissosHistorical Song
- Μια προυσταγή μιγάλη ⬥ And the king did command and ’twas a great command: fleet and admiral were to quit the land. By the Lord’s command and the King’s if-you-please the fleet was to sail for the twelve islands. Many fine ships rounded Cavo Doro, fair flying by; when Lambros [...]
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PublicationsV. Pangourelis08/08/1979NewspaperTo Vima
- Publication on a tour of 16 concerts in cities in Sweden in 1981. Sweden received Greek traditional singing with an enthusiastic welcoming, during a musical tour covering 6,500 kilometres in the distant country. A tour which lasted a whole month, with performances in towns, villages, castles and prisons... Domna Samiou [...]
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SongPontusLament
- Σο έναν τ' αναστέναγμα μ' ⬥ Studio recording, 1966. Released in 45 rpm disc (Fidelity 7399, 1966) supervised by Domna Samiou.
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SongPropontisNicomedeaChildren's Song
- Ένα μικρό φιντάνι ⬥ A little seedling a seedling, a little seedling sprouts forth and grows to give us fruit and flowers. A little water, just a drop to wash down the goodness so it won’t wane, so all will not be lost. So the leaves won’t wilt and the [...]
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SongAsia MinorErythraea, MeliFable Song (Ballad)
- Ένας κοντός κοντούτσικος (Mελί Eρυθραίας) ⬥ A little shorty, a short little man, aides pouli mou aides, had a beautiful wife and the whole neighbourhood, aman aman, was jealous, the whole country was jealous of him and none more than his own mother. A pasha, too, was jealous of his beautiful wife [...]
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SongSporadesSkiathosFable Song (Ballad)
- Ένας κοντός κοντούτσικος (Σκιάθος) ⬥ A short little man had a beautiful wife. The whole neighbourhood was jealous, and all the land and a pasha, a pasha envied him, too. He taxed him hard, imposed a load too heavy to bear. He sold vineyards heavy with grapes and fields swaying [...]
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PublicationsFani Petralia27/12/1972MagazineGyneka
- 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 [...]