

WDC
2017
Presented by: St. Nicholas Dance Ministry
WHEN?
January 5th, 6th, 7th & 8th
WHERE?


Tarpon Springs, Florida
REVMA
MIHALIS KAPPAS & PANAGIOTIS "PADDY" LEAGUE

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REVMA passionately displays the living art of traditional Greek music (“Dimotika”), to listening and dancing audiences. Mesmerizing pentatonic and polyphonic Epirot mountain laments and celebrations, lyrical melodies and the “springing” sousta and ballos dances of the Aegean, Dodecanese, and Ionian islands, powerful odd-metered Macedonian and Thracian rhythms, and the delicate modal tones of urban Smyrnaika, are all shaped by a history drenched in struggle, war, migration, resilience, and philotimia, and charged with Greek life-embracing passion and wit. Our musicians are: Rohan Gregory on violin, Glenn Dickson on clarinet, Fabio Pirozzolo on percussion, guitar, and voice, and Sandy Theodorou on laouto, accordion, and voice.
Violinist Michalis Kappas and laouto player Panayiotis League represent the intricate instrumental dance music tradition of the Dodecanese island of Kalymnos. Playing the style established by Giorgos Makrigiannis ("Nirsirios") and passed on to the current generation by Mikes and Manolis Tsounias, they have performed at panegyria, glendia, and concerts all over Greece and the Kalymnian diaspora.