Cheimerinoi Kolymvites - Florina Brass Band - Matoula Zamani - DJ set by Palov
Festival Opening Party
Concert
Now in their fourth decade as a group, the Cheimerinoi Kolymvites are making their first appearance at the Athens and Epidaurus Festival. They collaborated with the Florina Brass Band in 1985 on their second LP.
Part of the programme will be given over to musical settings of lyrical sections from the works of William Shakespeare (who is being honoured this year on the 400th anniversary of his death) and part to settings of works by poets from Greece and beyond (Elytis, Varnalis, Kavvadias, Varveris, Qays ibn-Mouaz et al.) Next up are songs from their core repertoire—the Greek folk tradition and a selection of rembetiko and light popular songs. Part of the programme will also be moulded to fit the audience and the political and cultural situation in Greece today.
Matoula Zamani and her band have toured plains, seas, mountains and saint’s day fairs and have returned to touch down at Peiraios 260 with galactic music and songs that touch the heart... The emblematic performer with the boundless energy and sensitive humour will be hitting the stage with the songs of the Metaxochori poet in her saddlebag alongside new tunes, old hits, covers and “crazy tales, unblocking chakras, healing wounds and getting confused hearts all a flutter”.
The evening is turned into a party with DJ Palov, who never seems to stop for breath between gigs and never fails to delight the crowd in Greece and further afield. His sets manage to mix and fuse musics and rhythms from the world music scene while being influenced and inspired by jazz, funk, Latin and reggae melodies and rhythms from East and West.
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