Glenbrook South High School Senior Nick Antonoglu likes to play music, especially electric and acoustic guitar and a Greek instrument he inherited from his grandfather called a bouzouki. He’s also on ...
It looks like a mandolin, but it also looks like a guitar. And it makes the special sounds heard in Greek movies and at Greek restaurants. It’s called a bouzouki, and George Karidakis and his brother, ...
FINNEYTOWN, Ohio (WKRC) - The annual Panegyri Greek Festival in Finneytown was underway. The festivities kicked off Friday night at the Holy Trinity Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church on Winton Road ...
Dave Shuford is finally getting the attention he deserves. Already a known quantity in underground music circles thanks to his work with the free-form collective known as No Neck Blues Band and his ...
A luthier for the past 30 years, Chris Pantazelos specializes in building and repairing the stringed instruments heard in Greek, Armenian, and Turkish music. Bouzoukis, ouds, mandolins, and santouris ...
Though he grew up in Athens, Andreas Georgas didn’t hear about rembetika, the music commonly known as the “Greek blues,” until 1994, when he was 18. He was studying piano at Roosevelt University when ...
Thanks to the blockbuster My Big Fat Greek Wedding and the upcoming Summer Olympics in Athens, Greek culture can be found more in the American mainstream. Greece is perhaps best known for its romantic ...
Thymios Partales and his Greek-American Super Band will perform at their first New Orleans Greek Festival on Memorial Day weekend. The band has two albums’ worth of originals and keeps up with the top ...
Music, dancing, culture and cuisine will be the main attractions at the 45th annual Greek Festival that concludes its three-day weekend run Sunday at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church, 129 N.