Greco-Turkish music & dance

AK-47? Good! It is time to learn greek langauge.  do cretans have different dialect?

Originally posted by Antioxos Also in the Greek country (not in the cities) they shoot in the air during the weddings the only thing is changing is the gun .In Crete are using kalasnikof in the other areas just  simple shotguns.

They're using AK-47's now on Crete? For real?

Also in the Greek country (not in the cities) they shoot in the air during the weddings the only thing is changing is the gun .In Crete are using kalasnikof in the other areas just  simple shotguns.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8dKGjNnHco&mode=related&search=

yes they do have the same music and the same dance but they dont shoot in the air .they do shoot in the air while they are dancing in the islands and especially in Crete.
here is some photos of pontus while they are dancing.

http://www.kromnaioi.gr/pages/xoreytiko.htm


Here is the official site of Vassilis Tsitsanis one of the most importand composers of the early years.

http://www.tsitsanis.gr/


Edited by Antioxos - 06-Jan-2007 at 16:26

nope, I know this word just for beatiful girls. bola emorfa girl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lkRaeLzaws

Originally posted by Mortaza Neoptolemos,   Do you have new pontus greek singers? I mean these are old. did pontus greeks asimilated by greece greeks?

Assimilated? Hmm, all Greeks (i.e. Epirotans, Macedonians, Cretans, Peloponneseans etc) have been/are being "assimilated" to an extend to the mainstream Greek culture. For example we all listen to 'laika' and western-style pop songs,  we all speak the same language (or rather dialect) more or less, which means that local dialects and accents are gradually fading away, we dress the same way and so on. At the same time, however, we keep (and will continue keeping) some of our region-specific cultural elements alive. For example there are some customs that you only find them in some parts of Greece.
Going now to music, all regions of Greece have their traditional music, folk dances, different prime instruments etc. Those are kept alive. The same is happening with the Pontians. They keep their music and dances and they don't forget their roots. So there are new greek-pontian singers. Of course if you ask me to name them I can't, just like most of Greeks here won't know singers who sing Epirotika (traditional songs from Epirus). I know though people with pontian roots who are in the mainstream music industry.

Per tradition some links:)
Dancing pontians in Athens  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPhthRTHcFw
Dancing group in Katerini, Macedonia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPE0htkKTJg
Celebration in Nea Makri, Athens http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lkRaeLzaws

And to more from weddings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u27kh-JzIW0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CA5JdINri0

One of my cousins got married to a woman with pontian roots. At the wedding party (in Athens) they had music (live of course:) from both Epirus and Pontos. I'm telling you, when pontians start dancing they don't stop... they humiliated us! We had an excuse though; they were many more

kusura bakma usha'um,

not much.Living at istanbul did not help much.

Thanks kotumeyil - very interesting stuff.