Beat Magazine

Cretan folk music with contemporary flair: Xylourides to perform at Brunswick Music Festival

The Xylouris family name is near-synonymous with Cretan folk music. Xylourides centres on Crete-based brothers Nikos and Adonis Xylouris and their Naarm/Melbourne-based sister Apollonia. The siblings’ ...
Neos Kosmos

Melbourne marks 100 years since the birth of legendary Cretan myra master Kostas Mountakis

The Pancretan Association of Melbourne has honoured the memory of emblematic Cretan lyra player Kostas Mountakis with a special musical tribute marking 100 years since his birth on 10 February 1926.
Chicago Reader

Xylouris White expands its collision of Cretan traditional music and rock on Mother

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Hellenic News of America

Vasilis Skoulas Honored in New Jersey as Cretan Music and Dance Fill the Grand Marquis

A landmark tribute at the Grand Marquis honored Vasilis Skoulas for 65 years of Cretan music, uniting dance, heritage, and ...
Sydney Morning Herald

Dad’s a world music legend. Now the kids are making their mark – as punks

If you’re born a Xylouris, there’s really only two ways you can go. You either embrace your destiny and pick up a musical instrument, or you reject it out of hand, and do anything but. For siblings ...