World Festival continues its course for the fourth year and this year is dedicated to the human voice, the most widespread and the most expressive musical instrument. Will take place as every year the weekend of Agiou Pneumatos, 17, 18 and June 19 in Chora of Tinos.


The Tinos World Music Festival, founded in 2013 in order to incorporate the island of Tinos in a broader intercultural network and become a meeting point of important musicians from the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean. So far it has hosted more than 100 internationally renowned musicians from Greece and abroad, and on the occasion of the festival itself have resulted very interesting partnerships moving forward on the international world music scene.

The program of the 4th Tinos World Festival :

Friday, 17.06, 21:30
A part: The Tino Choir of Byzantine Music Metropolis Siros- Tinos Chanters Chorus of the Virgin Mary, will perform an anthology of functional compositions and external members of the Byzantine music, which is one of the longest and most important vocal traditions of the world.
Part B: Avgerini Gatsiou (vocals, accordion), John Niarchos (vocals, guitar, oud) and Akis Pitsanis (singing, violin, guitar), three musicians who faithfully serve the Smyrneiko song, will present a tribute to urban song created by refugees from Asia Minor, and set later folk and artistic songs of modern Greece.

Saturday, 18. 06, 21:30
A part: Martha Mavroidi with the quartet "Jasmine", will present a program based on the vocal traditions of Greece, with traditional tunes and new pieces following the modality of the Eastern Mediterranean music, treated for vocal ensemble.
Part B: Savina Yannatou, one of the most recognizable Greek voices on the world stage of world music, meets the pianist Spyro Manesi in a special recital for voice and piano, which combines tradition different countries with jazz, and contemporary improvisation.

Sunday, 19.06, 21.00
A part: The orchestra of voices The Happy Hour Choir created as part of the Onassis Cultural Centre workshop "Voice on the Roof", presents songs and instrumental compositions adapted for vocal ensemble, of a wide musical spectrum.
Part B: The Bulgarian polyphony, a musical genre that made world famous recordings of the choir Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares, represented here in its most advanced form of the Eva Quartet, four masters of vocal art of the Bulgarian song.
C part: The singer and violinist Eliza Carthy, daughter of Martin Carthy, who is an emblematic figure in the field of English folk music, will present a program with the most distinctive pieces of English folk, a genre that had a profound influence on modern music genres

Admission is free to the public.
More information can be found on the festival page: www.tinosworldmusic.com/