Young trailblazers of an ancient art form, the Xylourides are the youth brigade of Cretan folk music. Descendants of legendary musicians George Xylouris and Psarantonis, and their father George ...

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

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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.

According to George Xylouris’s stories of Anogeia, the small mountain village in Crete where he was raised and still lives is so saturated with music that even the newspaper arrives as a kind of song.

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’ ...

In this case the tradition is Cretan: the mantinades, syrtoi and ritzika of an island proud of very distinctive musical style are usually played on lute and the lyra – an upright bowed string ...

This article by April Peavey originally appeared on PRI.org on September 6, 2016. It is republished here as part of a content-sharing agreement. Crete, the Greek island between Italy and Turkey, is a ...