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President votes in central Athens

Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou voted on Sunday at the 44th primary school in central Athens.

She did not make any statement to the press. 

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. 

Legendary composer Yiannis Markopoulos laid to rest

Yiannis Markopoulos, one of Greece's most influential composers, was laid to rest on Thursday after a funeral service held at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens. 

Nikos Dessekopoulos | Athens | To June 18

There are only a few days left to catch the Athens Municipal Gallery's (Leonidou & Myllerou, Avdi Square, Metaxourgeio) retrospective on one of Greece's most prolific and influential wood engravers, Nikos Dessekopoulos.

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.

Festival in Greece dedicated to Callas

The music from "Madame Butterfly" and other major operas is known to Greek audiences largely through the recorded performances of Maria Callas, the U.S.-born Greek artist who died in 1977 and is still revered here.

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.

Gregory Porter | Athens | June 24

Two-time Grammy winner for Best Jazz Vocal Album, Gregory Porter is coming to Greece for the first time, with a single show at the Herod Atticus Theater, as part of the Athens & Epidaurus Festival (aefestival.gr).

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.

Influential composer Yannis Markopoulos hospitalized

One of Greece's most influential composers of the 20th century, Yannis Markopoulos, was admitted on Friday to the intensive care unit of the Alexandra General Hospital in Athens after complications that occurred during treatment of the cancer he has been suffering from for the last year. 

Evia film festival is back

Our trip to North Evia last year for the Evia Film Project of the Thessaloniki Film Festival stirred up mixed emotions. On the one hand, we felt sadness and anger at the obvious and immense ecological destruction caused by the massive 2021 wildfires in the area.

Steve Coleman | Athens | May 5

American saxophonist, composer, bandleader, music theorist and MacArthur Fellow Steve Coleman and his band the Five Elements are coming to Greece for the first time, to appear at Gazarte (gazarte.gr). Hailed as the "master of groove," Coleman promises an uplifting show for fans and new initiates.

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