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Delphi Takes Center Stage As Summer Festival Kicks Off
A few weeks after the completion of the annual Delphi Economic Forum, the world-famous historical site in Central Greece once again gets ready to host local and international visitors, this time as the seat of a regional summer festival...
Ancient Greece
Greek Island of Delos to Host First Concert After Thousands of Years
The sacred, uninhabited Greek island of Delos will host a concert featuring Ukrainian, Russian, and Greek musicians on Monday, May 30, 2022.
This concert will be the first of its kind to take place on the island, which is full...
Greek News
Greek Composer Vangelis Papathanasiou Passes Away
World renowned Greek composer Vangelis Papathanasiou, known professionally simply as Vangelis, passed away at 79, according to an announcement made on Thursday.
The composer, who won an Oscar award for composing the score for the film Chariots of Fire (1981),...
Canada
Chairman George: The Greek-Canadian who Became a Singing Superstar in China
A PhD-trained statistician for the federal agency Statistics Canada is an unlikely candidate for becoming a singing sensation anywhere—much less in China. But this is the surprising path the life of Canadian-born George Sapounidis took after 1999, when he...
Culture
Why Greeks Break Plates: The History Behind the Custom
The sound of a plate smashing, shattering loudly as it meets the floor, is distinctive and tends to turn heads in a restaurant. Most of us, startled, think, Oh No! an unfortunate accident has occurred.
But when plates shatter on...
Culture
Amanda Tenfjord to Represent Greece with “Die Together” at Eurovision
Amanda Georgiadi, also known as Amanda Tenfjord, has released her Eurovision 2022 entry for Greece called "Die Together" on Thursday.
The song, which 25-year-old Georgiadi composed herself with the help of Bjorn Helgen, tells the story of a couple in...
Music
Some Neurons in the Brain Selectively Respond Only to Sound of Singing
Scientists on Tuesday announced they had found an unexpected response to singing in the brain, suggesting particular groups of neurons appear to respond selectively to these particular sound.
In a Current Biology journal article, a team of scientists in the...
Music
Eminem Causes Controversy by Kneeling at Super Bowl Halftime Show
Rapper Eminem delivered a memorable performance during the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday by taking a knee at the end of it, reportedly in a protest tribute to former San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
This year's Super Bowl halftime...
Culture
Popular Rap Song by Logic May Have Prevented Hundreds of Suicides
The popular rap song "1-800-273-8255" by Logic, which takes its name from the phone number of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, may have prevented 245 suicides, according to a study recently published in the British Medical Journal.
The song, which...
Culture
Bringing Folk Music from Rhodes into the Modern Age
Nikos Tzellos, a young musician from Rhodes, has made it his mission to revive the folk music of his island for the modern era.