Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Most tourists thronging Piraeus’s ferry port outside Athens will have heard bouzouki music — the plangent, lutelike ...

Once an underground rebel sound, the wailing “Greek blues” known as rebetiko has been embraced by young musicians both in Greece and in the Greek diaspora, including the members of the Greek Rebetiko ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. ARTISTS IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 - Melbourne Rebetiko Ensemble Footballers are back in their natural habitat and now musicians are taking ...

Markos Vamvakáris, commonly known as the " patriarch of the rebetiko", left his last breath 45 years ago. His legacy and his music still affect numerous musicians while the story of his life proves ...

ATHENS, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Over a century since it was first played at cafes and tavernas of the poor on the Greek mainland and the Greek-speaking parts of the Ottoman Empire, rebetiko, dubbed the ...

The Greek musical genre rebetiko was inscribed on UNESCO’s 2017 representative list of Intangible Cultural Heritage during its annual meeting held in Jeju, Korea, Ekathimerini reported. According to ...