Theodoros Kekes

Biographical Note

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Folk musician (1924-2007). He played the Thracian gaida. Born in 1928 in Kiani, a village located in the eastern part of the Evros Prefecture of Thrace.

Source: Yiorgos Kekes

Songs

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Thrace Acritic song, Wedding song
A young and gallant soldier
A young and gallant soldier Sought a citadel, a citadel. He sought a citadel, a village to stop at. He found none, no citade...
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Thrace Carolling Christmas carol, Ritual song
Christmas song (Thrace)
Η μάνα που 'χει τουν ιγιό
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Thrace Acritic song
Digenes is dying
Digenes, Digenes is giving up the ghost, my eyes, Digenes is dying my eyes are black, Digenes is dying. All the lords on l...
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Thrace Carolling New Year's carol, Ritual song
Leaving the noble home
Π' αυγινικό κι αν βγήκαμι
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Thrace Evros, Kyani Carnival song
What am I, poor wretch, to do
What am I, poor wretch, to do with the wife I’ve got? In Jan’ry month and Feb’ry too she leads me off to harvest. I reaped ...
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Thrace Evros, Kyani Lampoon
When I went down to the butchers
When I went down, mistress mine, to the butcher’s to buy meat, he gave me, mistress mine, a bone and a donkey head to eat....

Albums

Concerts

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1971-1973 Athens, Clubs Rodeo, Kyttaro and Rizes
The first concerts
In 1971, in the midst of the military Junta period in Greece,...