Welcome Travel » vitsa https://www.welcometravel.gr/ εξειδικευμένες ταξιδιωτικές υπηρεσίες Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:31:39 +0000 el hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 Hunting for the Source of the World’s Most Beguiling Folk Music https://www.welcometravel.gr/hunting-source-worlds-beguiling-folk-music/ https://www.welcometravel.gr/hunting-source-worlds-beguiling-folk-music/#comments Sun, 16 Nov 2014 09:26:24 +0000 http://www.welcometravel.gr/?p=892 Vitsa, a village in northern Greece, holds a three-day religious festival every August, with all-night music and dancing. On Sept. 20, 1926, the Greek violinist Alexis Zoumbas recorded one of the most devastating bits of music I’ve ever encountered. The song, “Epirotiko Mirologi,” is a pentatonic lament — mirologi — that, for millenniums, has been sung beside fresh graves in […]

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