NEW OFFICIAL CD RELEASE
The second official album of our band was released on Saturday 18/3/2016, exactly three years after the release of the first. The Cultural Folklore Association "Ta Didima Teichei" in collaboration with the traditional band Evritiki Zygia present you the new CD entitled "Ner gia dgeiti afigkrasteiti".
Containing 14 unreleased songs from the villages of Makra Gefira (Eastern Thrace) it becomes the first album entirely dedicated to the region of Makra Gefira, with a 136 pages book which deals with historical and cultural information regarding to the region and explanatory details about the songs and dances included. Songs about various topics such as marriage, love or customary, song by local people, too, and played by the musical instruments that the people of Isaakio remember and the lyrics of our songs command.
The musical treasure of a region of Thrace, whose the discographical representation remained superficial, is being concentrated in this album at last. You can acquire the album by sending an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Watch the video that includes parts of the songs included in the album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuuJIxWbBCA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk3oinonBcI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raGjU_RPssg&feature=youtu.be
FESTIVAL"
Αlternative as always was the character of the "Ardas Festival 2015" with Evritiki Zygia giving its own special tone in one of the biggest music festivals of Greece. The main stage of the event was inundated by Thracian sounds of the band that excited people and made them dance beside the river Arda and listen to traditional songs orchestrated and played by the particular style of Evritiki Zygia.
The concert's official video clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUz09FhiwdY
Watch the album that includes photos from the concert:
GATHERING.
During the event, cooperated with Evritiki Zygia:
George Drikoudis accordion,
Katerina Douka singing.
SHOW "GREEK ACTS"
The show "Greek Acts" travels to Evros where searches for the deeper meaning of Thrace, as reflected in the musical culture of the area and captures images that are rare to find ... 28 minutes of music, dance, celebration, emotion, culture, history .. .28 minutes of Thrace ... Evritiki Zygia stars at the documentary and shows the charming "marrying" of the primordial Thracian instruments and their presence in local societies through the centuries.
Watch the documentary on the website:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5wgy0Kv4RA
A very important fact for the biography of Evritiki Zygia is the concert that took place in July 2013 at the RADIOMEGARO ERT in Athens. The whole world smelled Thrace that night as the concert was broadcasted live on live streaming in all countries of the world that broadcasts ERT. You can watch the show on you tube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS6EILQFBws
The most important fact in the course of Evritiki Zygia is the release of the fist official alboum made by the band. With this cd Evritiki Zygia officially leaves its musical imprint and brings back the old sound color of Evros, which only the combination of the bagpipes with the lyre and the kaval with the davul can offer.
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One of the most beautiful moments that the band has lived was the concert at the Greek-speaking regions of Calabria in South Italy in August 2013. Evritiki Zygia traveled to many villages of "Magna Grecia", experienced the rich culture that has its roots in the years of the Byzantine Empire and found that, apart from the local Greek dialect, the musical tradition of the locals is almost similar to ours , since the main instruments of their revels are the Calabrian lyre, the bagpipe or "the tsamponia" as it is called, and the percussion. This is another reason why the band's music much piqued the interest of the viewers of the concert, which was held in Bova Marina as part of the festival "paleariza - festival di world music nella Calabria Greca". Complete photographic material found in "Media Visual" (look above), and you can watch excerpts of the concert on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff_oDfgJU5E
The City of Orestiada honored in 2011 three top musicians of Evros for their longstanding and momentous offer to the local music tradition and to her rescue. Among them was also the lyre player of Evritiki Zygia Partinoudis Alexis, in recognition of his multiannual work and effort for the reappearance of the Thracian lyre to the musical foreground.
