Northern Doxaries

On Wednesday 24/09 at the Thyrathen Museum at 9:00 PM.

The lyre as a bowed string instrument is present throughout the Balkan Peninsula. In Greece, the most widespread versions of the pear-shaped lyre are those found in Crete and the Dodecanese, while two lyres found in mainland-northern Greece, and more specifically in the regions of eastern Macedonia and Thrace, remain unknown to the general public. In the presentation we will meet the lyre players or "lyratzides", as they are called in northern Greece, Alexios Partinoudis, originally from Evros, and Alexandros Papoutsis from Drama, who will take us on a musical journey to northern places, where... snow mixes with blood and the "unending" love of our Akrites is born as they vibrate in ecstatic, almost pagan rhythms... The musicians will be accompanied by Konstantinos Georgiadis on percussion and Zacharias Vamvakousis on accordion.

tickets: https://www.more.com/gr-el/tickets/music/boreies-doksaries