Xylouris White is one of those bands that no matter how much you hear about their music you can never get the whole picture until you listen to it. At …

One of Greece’s largest and most historic record labels, MINOS EMI (a Universal Music Company) announced a new project, targeted to the audiences of Australia and New Zealand. The seminal …

Athanasios Lichoudaris was 15 years old when he first sat on the drum kit, replacing the drummer of his heavy metal band. “I was actually the singer,” he remembers, “and …

A night full of swing vibes and rocking beats. That is what the Greek band Cats and the Canary promise in their first full performance on Sunday 26 August at …

For fans of Greek music, chances are you have heard of the Greece Mix CD series compiled by Greek Australian DJ, producer, and promoter Krazy Kon. Over the past two …

Taonga püoro means ‘singing treasures’. The term describes something more than just a set of musical instruments – the flutes, gourds, wood and shell trumpets and bull roarers that Maori …

Soulful songstress Phoebe Day is making her Melbourne debut on the Paris Cat stage this month, presenting her signature blend of jazz, soul and RnB that has made her one …

In 1932, the musicologist Wilfrid Perrett reported to an audience at the Royal Musical Association in London the words of an unnamed professor of Greek with musical leanings: “Nobody has …

Kaliopi Stavropoulos has kept her first guitar, the one she started playing when she was just a child, the scratch marks on one side paying testament to the difficulty she …

The healing power of music and its potential to foster cross-cultural contact was celebrated at an event held last Tuesday at Melbourne’s Museo Italiano. ‘Lullabies and laments: a song circle’ …