A professional musician from the tender age of just 14 attending school by day and performing gigs by night, Thanasis has shared the stage with Greek music royalty such as the likes of Dimitris Bassis, Stathis Aggelopoulos, Vasilis Lekkas, Nikos Kourkoulis, Kelly Kellidou, Thanasis Vasilakos, Sakis Arsenious….the list goes on.
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Popular singer Nikos Economopoulos tested positive for COVID-19 and is being treated at the Evangelismos…
Korytsa (Κορυτσά, Albanian: Korçë), a city of only 80,000 people in Northern Epirus and one…
A bouzouki can be heard in the corridors of the AHEPA hospital in Thessaloniki, and…
Singer Lizzo Beating and rapper Cardi B teamed up for ‘Rumors’, Lizzo’s first single in…
Bouzouki player, Gregory Georgiou, DJ George Savva and Percussionist Arky Kalithrakas. Three gifted musicians, who together form the modern Greek sensation that is the band ‘FiloXenia.’ Greek City Times chats with the guys in the lead up to their performance this time tomorrow in our sixth episode of Live in L0ckdown. Don’t miss it!
Sharing her passion with Greek music fans worldwide, Niki brings to you all of the tunes from Greece as soon as they are released, as well as hot remixes plus some of her own favourites. Listen to her playlists here.
Whilst some of the world is experiencing C0VID fatique, fires are sweeping across our beloved Greece, may these few moments bring some much needed peace, albeit temporary. One hour from now our fifth episode features Lefteris Ganas, accompanied by Thanasis Plarinos, playing old school Greek laiko.
STAN, one of Greece’s most loved and talented singers/songwriters, was born on the 1st August…
Greek City Times presents to you the fourth episode of our new weekly series, featuring the masterful and very soulful klarino soloist, Theo Skaltsas. Enjoy our premiere in just TWO hours from now.
Mikis Theodorakis was born on July 29 in 1925, on the Greek island of Chios.…
“That’s the beautiful thing about music – there is a song or melody for every mood, feeling or experience.” Enjoy our premiere of the beautiful and very talented singer,Tina Kokkalis in just TWO hours from now.
Popular Greek singer Despina Vandi was born as Despina Malea on 22 July 1969, in Tübingen near Stuttgart, Germany. Vandi’s family returned to Kavala,…
The life of every party, Bongo Ang is set to rock the virtual stage in just thirty minutes from now as he goes live Greek-style! Opa!!
Despina Vandi and Demis Nikolaidis decided to separate and follow different paths. News of the…
Premiering in just TWO HOURS!! Don’t miss our debut episode featuring the epically talented and internationally acclaimed bouzouki player, Tommy Tsonis.
Introducing up and coming Greek deejay RossAlto. Listen to his new release ‘Izulu’ here.
As of July 16th Posidonio will be the first Covid free bouzoukia in Greece as venues are required to register as either a “pure space” for vaccinated people only or as a “mixed space’ with both vaccinated and unvaccinated people permitted.
Nikos Vertis has released a brand new song “Koita” and you are going to fall in love with it the minute you hear it. Listen to it here and read the beautiful lyrics, composed by Vertis himself.
Nikos Oikonomopoulos celebrated his special day and uploaded a photo of the birthday cake on…