Takim
Why, My Sweetheart!
Jazz and Hijaz: From Ellis Island to Chicago
It is estimated that roughly 500,000 Greeks (about 15% of the entire Greek population at the time) immigrated to the USA between 1891 and 1924. For Greek immigrants, songs, music, and dancing were intrinsic aspects of national identity, and symbols of their ethnic and social background. There were many musicians and singers among those immigrants who made a name for themselves in Greek American nightclubs. Their music encompassed a variety of genres, such as syrto from Asia Minor, karsilama, zeibekiko, Jewish dances and Eastern melodies, fused with jazz, swing, and operettas. Qanun, oud, and clarinet will take their place next to American wind instruments, in beloved, much-covered songs.
In this musical performance at the Garden of Peiraios 260, Takim will be joined by singers Giannis Niarchos and Katerina Tziviloglou. The band will also be joined by top-notch clarinet virtuoso Petroloukas Chalkias. The latter has a first-hand experience of Greek-American nightclubs, having performed in them for a span of twenty years (1960-1979).
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