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Waterboys | Athens | June 22
British-Irish folk rock band the Waterboys are coming back to Greece this summer for another electrifying show. The Big Music outfit formed in 1983 and known for hits including "The Whole of the Moon" will be performing at the Herod Atticus Theater as part of the Athens-Epidaurus Festival. Tickets can be purchased on the Athens-Epidaurus Festival site, aefestival.gr.
Greeks turning their backs on news media
Citizens in Greece are losing faith in the news delivered by traditional media, partly due to perceptions of undue political and business influence on journalism, according to the annual Digital News Report 2023 by the Reuters Institute based on a YouGov survey of over 93,000 online news consumers in 46 markets covering half of the world's population.
Composer Markopoulos’ funeral service to take place on Thursday
The funeral of one of Greece's most influential composers of the 20th century, Yannis Markopoulos, will take place in Athens on Thursday, his family announced on Monday.
Markopoulos died at the age of 84 on Saturday evening after being hospitalized at the Alexandra Hospital in Athens, where he was admitted on June 5.
Quadruple Opening | Athens | June 7
The Athens-Epidaurus Festival (aefestival.gr) is inaugurating its program at the cool Pireos 260 venue with a feast of shows for the week starting on June 7. On Stage D, avant-garde Russian theater and film director Kirill Serebrennikov is making his Greek debut with a performance expressing his opposition to Moscow and its invasion of Ukraine.
Warhaus | Thessaloniki & Athens | May 19 & 20
Belgian singer-songwriter Maarten Devoldere, known as the frontman of Balthazar, comes to Greece as a solo act, Warhaus, to perform at Thessaloniki's WE venue (weskg.gr) and Athens' Gazarte (gazarte.gr) the following night. With romantic rock music that has been described as "dark and sexy," the act will be performing tracks from his last album, 2022's "Ha Ha Heartbreak" and older tunes.
Picturesque Greek doors inspire Washington photo show
The Greek Embassy in Washington, DC, is unveiling an exhibition of photographs by Dody Tsiantar, a journalist and retired adjunct professor at Columbia University Journalism School.
"Glimpses of Greece: Door Portraits," comprises a collection of shots taken by Tsiantar on her cellphone camera while traveling around the country.
‘Medea’ through Castorf’s perspective
The five lead actresses in this year's "Medea" performance directed by Frank Castorf at the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus as part of the Athens Festival: (l-r) Evdokia Roumelioti, Maria Nafpliotou, Sofia Kokkali, Angeliki Papoulia and Stefania Goulioti. The play staged by the German director based on Euripides' "Medea" is expected to be one of the top artistic events of the year in Greece.