Lebanese singer-songwriter Yasmine Hamdan returns with mournful minimalism, Mohinder Kaur Bhamra’s 1982 album of Punjabi disco makes a comeback and Venezuelan-Guatemalan duo Titanic serve up ecstatic ...

Join Pavlos Carvalho and Greek folk group Plastikes Karekles for a night of traditional Greek Rebetiko music at this year’s Festival of Chichester. Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to ...

The Melbourne Greek Ensemble recently released their highly anticipated album to a sold-out crowd at Brunswick Ballroom. Titled Journey to Rebetika, the album is a collection of classic Rebetiko songs ...

Rather like Uberto Pasolini’s recent beefcake bonanza, The Return, the veteran director Yorgos Tsemberopoulos’s film celebrates a Greek tradition of exile and nostalgia that goes back to Homer’s ...

At the Greek publishing house “Istos” and the sports club of Pera, in the center of Constantinople, the sound of bouzouki melodies fills the air while the lesson is in progress. Andreas Sarantidis, ...

ATHENS — The Tsakirian family has been making instruments — stringed musical instruments, to be specific — for four generations in Athens, Greece. People who exercise this rare profession are called ...

Demetrios Petsalakis brings Tarafi to Drom Taberna! Tarafi is a band paying tribute to the original rebetiko from the pre-WWII era. Rebetiko is the music of predominantly the urban lower and ...

Markos Vamvakaris is acknowledged as one, if not the most influential Greek rebetiko musicians who established the orchestra of bouzoukis and baglamas. His recorded songs are over 200, recorded mainly ...

Rebetiko, the soulful music of the Greek underworld, arose in the early 20th century. Born in Asia Minor, particularly Smyrna and Constantinople, it arrived in mainland Greece with refugees fleeing ...