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"THE MOUNTAINS ECHO"

Big online concert today! With "CHAONIA" participating!

Today, Sunday 25th of April at 9:00 pm, a big online concert is organized against the installation of a huge wind farm on Dirfy and Xirovouni, at central and south Euboea. A concert for free mountains!

Among others, it is also the polyphonic group "CHAONIA" and the POLYPHONY WORKSHOP that participate! With polyphonic songs for the mountains, sang even at the top of the mountains!

Today at 9:00 pm!

Let's share and follow the event, let's tune in to it and fight together!

Because:

"τούτο τον τόπο που βραμε

άλλοι τον είχαν πρώτα

σε μας τον παραδώσανε

κι άλλοι τον καρτεράνε"!

(this place that we found

was belonging to others before

they gave it to us

and others are waiting for it)

The POLYPHONIC CARAVAN at the "DAY OF THE EPIROTE", 4.4.2021

The following image comes from the video of the Polyphonic Caravan's participation at the online celebration for the "DAY OF THE EPIROTE" organized by the Pan-Epirotic Confederation of Greece, on this Sunday, 4th of April, starting at 12:00 am at its YouTube channel.

The Polyphonic Caravan participates honorarily on the basis of its international recognition with its inscription on UNESCO's Good Safeguarding Practices of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Apart from that, the Polyphonic Caravan supports the online action of the Pan-Epirotic Confederation of Greece with technical know-how and equipment.

HAPPY NEW YEAR BY THE POLYPHONIC CARAVAN!

The Polyphonic Caravan wishes to everyone a good and happy new year, full of traveling, songs, gatherings, real festivals coming deep from our soul! Happy new year to all the polyphonic groups, to the co-travelers, to the -bigger and bigger- community of polyphony! Happy new year to the borderline villages of the polyphony, to the polyphonic spots for young people in the cities! Happy new year to all those who struggle for the present and the future of the polyphonic song with truth, ethos and passion.

A few days ago, the big journey of the voices was honored with an international recognition, with its inscription on UNESCO's Register of Good Safeguarding Practices! With this urge, we are entering the new year, the new decade! Without suspending our action at all, overcoming the difficulties of our times, sharing to the wide public the fruits of our 23-years-long course. We are preparing ourselves for the day when we will sing again polyphonic songs as it should be, one next to the other, together with the other one! In improvised celebrations but also in the great celebrations we prepare for 2021, the year with the biggest Caravan!

The photo initiating the new year comes from the 2014 Winter Polyphonic Caravan. This is how old lady Olga welcomed us at her village, Parakalamos in Epirus, breaking the pomegranate in front of our feet. Let's have a good year and good journeys! Let's, thus, break the pomegranate!

Continuous enrichment of the Polyphonic Caravan's YouTube Channel!

The constant work of "Apiros" and the Polyphonic Caravan is continued with the digitalization of valuable archival materials of the Polyphonic Sogn Archive and their publication, among others, through our channel at YouTube.

The publications of videos are accompanied by well-documented texts and references, valuable for anyone who wants to research, learn more on the polyphonic song and the practice itself and travels of the Polyphonic Caravan.

Those publications are shared through the Polyphonic Caravan's channel at YouTube, as well as daily through the pages and groups in social media and through the present site in the column dedicated to "DIGITAL POLIS-PHONY".

The next period, some publications will be dedicated to the Spring Polyphonic Caravans, with a series of field-based recordings from 2006 to 2019, which will be presented, among others, through the YouTube channel.

Stay tuned and subscribe to our channel!

POLYPHONIC CARAVAN'S VASILOPITA FOR 2021

"From Apiros to the World"

Since years now, during the first days of the year, we celebrate by cutting the vasilopita (New Year's pie) of the Polyphonic Caravan. In 2020, we cut it during the Winter Polyphonic Caravan along with beloved friends in Polytsani village. In 2019, in a beloved place, Oikonomou tavern at Petralona, in 2018 during a thematic event for the Polyphony Workshop at the Center of Greek Music Foivos Anogiannakis.

Such "traditions" cannot be suspended and we honor them, having adapted them to the framework of our times. The Polyphonic Caravan cut its vasilopita for 2021! At a place connected to our songs, the hill of the Nymphs. Highly consciously, with restricted presences. With the five most devoted co-travelers since many years now. Those five, count more than twenty Caravans each during the 2010 decade!

Among the words written on the pie, the most recent international recognition of the Polyphonic Caravan, its inscription on UNESCO's Register of Good Safeguarding Practices. Maybe the letters of the word "UNESCO" became a little bigger than expected but the essence is found in the last line - "from APIROS to the WORLD".

Until next year, when we will meet all together in person in beloved places! Always with the Polyphonic Caravan!