Yiannis Kassetas, sax - Sera Bellos, drums - Pantelis Benetatos, piano - Manos Loutas, bass
24/5 - Crazy People Music
The Crazy People Music is a set of five fabulous musicians who have managed the impossible in Greek Jazz Funk scene. Crazy People Music : Antonis Andreou, Dimitris Tsakas, Yiorgos Georgiadis, Alexandre Drakos Ktistakis, Dimitris Sevdalis
25/5 - Nikiforos Papanagis Quartet 'Tarzan Unleashed'
Original compositions. Yiannis Papadopoulos, piano - Dinos Manos, bass - Vassilis Podaras, drums - Nikiforos Papanagis, guitar
26/5 - Fenia Papadodima 'Amorgo Quintet'
FENIA PAPADODIMA voc - GIORGOS PALAMIOTIS bass - GRIGORIS NTANIS -guitar - THANOS HADZIANAGNOSTOU drums - LEONIDAS SARANTOPOULOS flute
27/5 - Afrodyssey Orchestra
Afrodyssey Orchestra are the new and unique sound of dance music in Athens Greece. Their name reflects their musical style and genre as it alludes to Africa and the Odyssey as a voyage - adventure.
The band has been influenced by traditional west african dance music and percussion, Jazz, Funk, Psychedelic, as well as Greek music culture.
Musicians, each from different background and musical influences, brought together by a series of events, they now share the same aesthetic style, vibrancy, enthusiasm and musical creativity captivating even the most hard-to-please audiences!
Most of Afrodyssey Orchestra’s music is composed by the band itself and include instruments which are unknown to the wide public, such as the Kamelen Ngoni, which is a type of African harp, and the Balafon, which is an ancestor of the Marimba and Vibraphone. They also play some innovative versions of well-known songs of Afro music and Greek traditional music.
Afrodyssey Orchestra are:
Thodoris Rellos – saxophone
Konstantinos Arvanitis – Guitar, composition, musical arrangement
Vasilis Papastamopoulos – Bass
Christos Konstantinidis – Drums
Narayan Protin – Djembe, Percussion, Kamelen Ngoni
Vassilios Ikonomidis – Percussion, Balafon, Tenor saxophone
