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Karslidiko

Sample
Song Information
Kind:Demotic
Category:Emigration songs
Area: Trebizond (Pontos)
Nationality:Greek
Language:Pontic dialect
Dance:-
Scale:D mode
Collector:Merlier Melpo
Recording Place:Alambra Theatre, Athens
Recording Date:01/10/1930
Recording Responsible:Merlier Melpo
Other characteristics:Performed by natives, A capella
Register Information
Register date:23/03/2010
Register:Moraitis Thanassis
Comment:3/8 - Many Pontic Greeks emigrated to the town of Kars in the Caucasus. The women staying behind used to sing this song out of grief for their sons and husbands who left them all alone.
Storage media:Merlier (78rpm) 003 (78 rpm 003)
Artists/Instruments
Iossifidhou Xanthipi:Singer
Photos Collection

Δίσκος 78 rpm (Μερλιέ 003/από τη συλλογή του ΜΛΑ)

Ξανθίππη Ιωσηφίδου, Τραπεζούντα - Πόντος (Ηχογράφηση 1930)

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