Neos Kosmos

Silenced strings: Melbourne’s Greek music elder robbed of a lifetime’s bouzoukia

Five treasured instruments — one dating back 60 years to a legend of Greek music- were stolen from 81-year-old George Bouras ...
The Guardian

Wall-to-wall bouzouki? Greece plans quota of local music to be played in hotel lobbies and other public spaces

Tourist and creative industries react angrily to ‘curb on freedom of expression’ Greek music in hotel lobbies, Greek tunes in lifts, Greek melodies in casinos, shopping malls, airport lounges and ...
Chicago Tribune

Shout Out: Nick Antonoglu, a high school senior who plays traditional Greek music and the bouzouki instrument

Glenbrook South High School Senior Nick Antonoglu likes to play music, especially electric and acoustic guitar and a Greek instrument he inherited from his grandfather called a bouzouki. He’s also on ...
SBS

The unique contribution of Vassilis Tsitsanis in Greek Music

Vassilis Tsitsanis, the great Greek songwriter and bouzouki player, was one of the leading Greek composers of Greek and world music. Tsitsanis wrote more than 1000 songs and he will always be ...
Free Malaysia Today

How ‘Zorba’s Dance’ became Greece’s trademark theme music

‘Zorba’s Dance’ features a combination of slow and fast rhythms to the strains of the traditional guitar-like bouzouki. (Youtube pic) Probably the best-known piece of Greek music in the world, the ...
The Baltimore Sun

Hard Lives and Hash Dens in Greek Music

The Manhattan apartments of Jack Gregory (born Ioannis Halikias) were for three decades, from the 1930s to the 1960s, a meeting-place for Greek and Turkish-speaking musicians; a place to jam, hang out ...