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 ...

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 ...

Rebetiko Festival will take over Melbourne Recital Centre for one day in March with two extraordinary ensembles from Greece: Pliri Ntaxei and Chrysoula K & Purpura and a collection of Greek Australian ...

Have you ever heard of rebetiko? I hadn’t either until I read David Prudhomme’s graphic novel of the same name, which traces a day and a night in the lives of a group of musicians in Athens in the ...

Alex Kapranos leads this tribute show to rebetiko master Markos Vamvakaris Markos Vamvakaris was a man fully conversant with his own myth. In the 1930s he transformed Greek music by popularising the ...

Markos Vamvakaris "returns" to Syros for the 2nd Rebetiko Music Festival that takes place on the Greek island of Syros from the 30th of August till the 3rd of September. Syros is the birthplace of ...

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 ...

The music band Melbourne Rebetiko Ensemble recently released a new work with rebetika songs titled "The Path" ("To monopati"). SBS Greek talks to a member of the band, the Greek-Australian singer ...

The death, earlier this year, of the famed Greek singer/songwriter Manolis Rassoulis at age 65 was a loss for Mediterranean music in general, particularly in Israel, where Rassoulis has performed to ...

GREEK REBETIKO MUSIC RISES FROM MARGINS TO UNESCO'S LIST. Young street musicians performing rebetiko songs in central Athens, capital of Greece, on Dec 18, 2017. Over a century since it was first ...