Category: Ritual song
Central Greece Viotia, Arachova Ritual song, Fable song (ballad)
A festival is being held
Local dance of Saint George
A festival is being held, high up around Saint George’s.
– Salutations, Frankish lord!
A multitude was at the feast and the...
Macedonia Kozani, Eani Carolling Lazarus Saturday carol, Ritual song
A teacher seated himself down
Lazarus Saturday carol
A teacher seated himself down upon a block of marble
and started writing with his pen, and knocked his ink-well over,
the i...
Central Greece Euboea, Gymno Easter song, Sea and sailors chanty | Ritual song
All attend at church
All attend –for sake of Christ– all attend at church
to exclaim that ‘Christ is Risen!’ and to hear the Word.
As for me, th...
Sporades Skiathos Ritual song, Fable song (ballad)
Arta’s bridge
A team of forty stonemasons and sixty prentice workers
were putting up a bridge across the river close by Arta.
The whole d...
Sporades Skiathos Ritual song, Fable song (ballad)
Arta’s bridge
Down on the shore where land meets sea,
where the world ends,
they set to building a bridge,
but the bridge would not stan...
Pontus Kotiora Carolling Christmas carol, Ritual song
Byzantine Christmas carol (Pontus)
Άναρχος Θεός
Central Greece Attiki, Megara Ritual song, Great Lent song
Carnival is ended now
Why, Carnival is ended now, and Cheese-week’s past as well
and, gracious me, the Lenten fast, the Lenten fast’s with us.
Th...
Nursery song, Ritual song | Holy Week’s ritual song
Childrens Holy Week Song
Holy Monday – the butcher’s knife
Holy Tuesday – Christ in hiding
Holy Wednesday – Christ arrested
Maundy Thursday – Chris...
Dodecanese Astypalea Carolling Christmas carol, Ritual song
Christmas carol (Astypalea)
Χριστούγεννα Πρωτούγεννα
Macedonia Chalkidiki, Ierissos Carolling Christmas carol, Ritual song
Christmas carol (Ierissos, Chalkidiki)
Καλήν εσπέραν άρχοντες
Eastern Aegean Ikaria, Fournoi Carolling Christmas carol, Ritual song
Christmas carol (Ikaria)
Καλώς τα τα Χριστούγεννα
Macedonia Kozani Carolling Christmas carol, Wish well | Ritual song
Christmas carol (Kozani)
Κόλιαντα μπάμπω, κόλιαντα
Panhellenic Carolling Christmas carol, Ritual song
Christmas carol (Panhellenic)
Καλήν εσπέραν άρχοντες
Peloponnese Carolling Christmas carol, Wish well | Ritual song
Christmas carol (Peloponnese)
Χριστούγεννα Πρωτούγεννα
Thessaly Magnesia, Pouri Carolling Christmas carol, Ritual song
Christmas carol (Pouri)
Καλήν ημέραν άρχοντες