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GRAIKOI

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"Graikoi", (sounds: Graekee), was formed in 2006 from Katerina Ellinidou/vocals , her son Panagiotis/clarinet (22), her 2 dauters Rhea/percussions (18), Soumeli/vocals (16) and Loukas Metaxas/laouto. They play traditional music from Greece, especially from Epirus and Thessalia, but also from other regions that music is played with the same instruments like Western Thrace, Western and Eastern Makedonia, North and Central Aegean Greek Islands, Roumeli and Peloponnese.


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Member Since: 6/1/2007
Band Website: not yet, just this!
Band Members:Graikoi: Katerina Ellinidou:vocals,
Soumeli Ellinidou:vocals,
Panagiotis Ellinidis:clarinet-vocals,
Rhea Ellinidou:percussions-vocals,
Loukas Metaxas:Laouto-vocals.
"GRAIKOI" are working with the colaboration of other musicians, like Asterios Trakas, Makis Mpaklatzis, Kyriakos Petras, Tasos Kalogeras or Dimitris Katsoulis:violin, Evangelos Paschalides:santouri, Vassilis Ottas:trompet and many bouzouki and accordeon players...

Influences: All the anonymous musicians that kept and keep Greek traditional music alive! Also: Grigoris Kapsalis, Tasos Chalkias, Achileas Chalkias, Christos Zotos, Petroloukas Chalkias, Pagona Athanasiou, Antonis Kyritsis, Harisiadis, Takis Karnavas, Vasilis Soukas, Stauros Kapsalis, Sofia Kollitiri, Filio Pirgaki, Kasiaras, Mitsos Bouzalis, Ntagalas, Gioulekas, Hristos Tzitzimikas, Papakostas, Fotis Halkias, Kariofillis Doitsidis, Nikos Alvanopoulos, Kyriakos Petras, Konitopoulou family, Manolis Papageorgiou, Tasia Vera, Stathis Koukoularis, Kyriakos Gouventas, Manos Achalinotopoulos...

Sounds Like: Greek Traditional Music

Record Label: Polyphonon music productions
Type of Label: Indie

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About "Graikoi"

Some words from antiquity concerning the origin of the word Graikoi and the oracle of Dodona (Greek: Dodoni) in Epirus, Northwestern Greece. Graikoi or Elloi were priests in the ancient oracle of D...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:14:00 GMT