Musical Folklore Archives Melpo Merlie

Long live the bridegroom

Sample
Song Information
Kind:Demotic
Category:Wedding songs
Area: Inoi (Pontos)
Nationality:Greek
Language:Greek
Dance:-
Scale:D pentachord
Collector:Merlier Melpo
Recording Place:Alambra Theatre, Athens
Recording Date:01/10/1930
Recording Responsible:Merlier Melpo
Duration:1:37
Other characteristics:Performed by natives
Register Information
Register date:04/04/2006
Register:Moraitis Thanassis
Comment:Sung after the wedding banquet in a room occupied only by men. And while the singing went on, the bridegroom was seated in front of a lighted candle, thrust into a jug.
Storage media:Νot given (CD 965)
Artists/Instruments
Men from Inoi:Choir
Serghiadhis Theodhoros:Violin
Photos Collection

Θεόδωρος Σεργιάδης, Οινόη - Πόντος (Ηχογράφηση 1930)

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