Musical Folklore Archives Melpo Merlie

The ships are sailing away

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Song Information
Kind:Demotic
Category:Emigration songs
Area: Ioannina (Epirus)
Nationality:Greek
Language:Greek
Dance:Tsamikos
Scale:D mode
Collector:Merlier Melpo
Recording Place:Alambra Theatre, Athens
Recording Date:01/10/1930
Recording Responsible:Merlier Melpo
Duration:3:18
Other characteristics:Performed by natives
Register Information
Register date:02/10/2002
Register:Moraitis Thanassis
Comment:A husband who has crossed the seas to foreign lands sends a mesage to his wife that he will never come back and that she can marry again, if she wishes.
Storage media:Νot given (CD 136)
Artists/Instruments
Dalas Vassilios (Vassilis Karagiozis):Lute
Benatsis Kostas:Violin
Tzaras Nikos:Singer
Tzaras Nikos:Clarinet
Photos Collection

Κώστας Μπενάτσης, Ιωάννινα (Ηχογράφηση 1930)

Βασίλειος Ντάλας (ή Βασίλης Καραγκιόζης), Ιωάννινα (Ηχογράφηση 1930)

Νικόλαος Τζάρας, Ιωάννινα (Ηχογράφηση 1930)

Νικόλαος Τζάρας, Ιωάννινα (Ηχογράφηση 1930)

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