Athens - Epidauros Festival
The Athens - Epidauro Festival is filled with music & theatre events, as every year, which are sure to leave you in awe. Performing at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, under the Acropolis, the ancient theater of Epidauros, the Megaro Mousikis, musicians, dancers, actors, and other entertainers give their best performances to amaze visitors and locals alike. I've been to all three venues and one is better than the other! The Odeon of Herodes Atticus gives you the chills, as you watch an ancient Greek theater production under the Parthenon. Epidauros theater, the largest theater in Greece, places you in a different time and age. The Megaro Mousikis brings you to today in the modern concert halls with great acoustics.
One of the performances this weekend is that of Stamatis Kraounakis. Stamatis Kraounakis combines music and theatre with everything from Attic comedy to comic reviews and contemporary music theatre. He composes basically song-roles and alternates his heroes' masks while writing fully rounded characters. Orchestrated and conducted by Giorgos Zachariou, Stamatis Kraounakis and Eleni Ouzounidou will perform on June 27th & 28th at 9 p.m. at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus. The Speira Speira Greek Music Theatre Company will play the role of the chorus.
On July 23rd at 9 p.m. three Greek bands, ‘Imam Baildi', ‘Trio Balkano' & ‘World Music' will play instruments from the sax and bagpipes to bouzouki and trumpets while adding their voices to the multicultural sound of contemporary Europe: First, the atmospheric trio formed by three established musicians - Manos Achalinotopoulos, Stavros Lantsias and Yiorgos Kaloudis - who enter into a musical discourse, improvise and broaden the limits of Greek traditional music. Then there's the Trio Balkano from Thessaloniki with the virtuosic Pantelis Stoikos on trumpet and kavali and its Greek tinted, jazz-referencing approach to the Balkan brass sound. Finally, Imam Baildi, the group formed by the younger Falireas brothers which has already caused a stir with its contemporary electronic take on traditional sounds, the Greek popular music of decades past and rembetika. With acoustic instruments combined live on stage with samples and electronic sounds, yesteryear rises out of today to greet tomorrow. Advance booking begins on July 2nd.
For more information on events taking place and bookings, please visit http://www.greekfestival.gr/show_all?lang=en