Musical Odyssey - September 30, 2007 and links to information about the Membership Drive

The Show: The playlist is here.

Today I talked about and played music from Michalis Violaris. A video of him singing with Kaiti Homata is below.

Requests and Comments are welcome at greekmusic@gmail.com

The Membership Drive:
Please go here to read about the upcoming membership drive which will begin on October 7th.

Also, the new press release with some additional information regarding special guests and prizes can be read here. Give it a few seconds to load because it is a PDF file. Or you can read more at WPRB.com.

You can make a pledge online anytime on the secure website: https://pledge.wprb.com

Musical Odyssey - September 23, 2007

The playlist is here.

On the show I talked about and played music from Rosa Eskenazi. A good website devoted to her can be found here. Check out the photos and recommended CDs. Below is a video of her performing and talking about her career. Haris Alexiou appears at the end of the video.

Please go here to read about the upcoming membership drive. Or you can read more at WPRB.com

Thanks for listening. Comments and requests are welcome at greekmusic@gmail.com

WPRB to hold first-ever on-air membership drive

I thought I would take this opportunity to let you know about our
upcoming membership drive:

From WPRB.com:

103.3 WPRB Princeton, the 14,000 Watt non-profit radio station located on Princeton University’s campus, will hold its first-ever on-air membership drive October 7 - 14th, 2007
You can also Make a donation online anytime.

Founded in 1940, WPRB is the oldest college FM radio station and can be heard throughout New Jersey and much of the Philadelphia area. While the station is located on Princeton’s campus, it receives no direct funding from the University. Listener donations pledged during this drive will be directed towards the station’s operating budget.

If you ever listen to Musical Odyssey, I hope you will be able to call in to support the show and the station.

To read this full press release and to make a donation please go to the following websites:

Press Release

Make a donation online anytime

Thank you.

Musical Odyssey - September 16, 2007

The playlist is here

Today I talked about and played music by Melina Mercouri. Below is a video of her from the movie Stella.

We will heard some music Savinna Yannatou and Miguel Gil (which I mentioned last week but did not play. See last weeks post here which has a link to a video of them performing. I also played a request for Elpida.

Comments are requests are always welcome at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elpida

Musical Odyssey - September 9, 2007

The playlist is here

Today I talked about and played music from Savinna Yannatou. Information about her can be found here (last.fm) and also here (her official website).

Below are videos from Sarbel singing Mi Chica which we heard today.
You can also see Savinna Yannatou singing Cançó dels traginers with Miguel Gil on this youtube link here. This is worth checking out.

I have also created a Musical Odyssey page on last.fm where you can listen to samples of Greek music.
You can see it here or look at the last.fm playlist on the menu page to the right (you might have to scroll down a little).

Comments and questions always welcome at greekmusic@gmail.com

Musical Odyssey - September 2, 2007

The playlist is here.

During the show I talked about the band Zoo, the movie soundtrack Rembetiko (music composed by Stavros Xarhakos) and Tonis Maroudas. Below is a video with a scene from the Rembetiko movie.

We also heard some music from Sarbel. I was wondering if I was pronouncing his name correctly and it seems that there are two different ways to pronounce it according to last.fm : Sarbel (pronounced "Sharbel", or "Sarbel" in spoken Greek which lacks a voiceless postalveolar fricative, or the English "sh")

Requests and comments are welcome atmailto:greekmusic@gmail.com