Welcome to MouPaSa’s website.

 

 

History:

 

 

MouPaSa is not really a choir in the classical sense, but neither really only a band playing music. It is rather the result of some people trying to make an alternative kind of choir. A different suggestion in the field of  amateur music, creation and joy.

 

 

It started in the beginning of the 80ies by members of a teachers organisation and  a cultural club and in 1994 finally even got a name, MouPaSa (Mousiki Parea Samou = Musical Company of Samos).

 

 

Every year we present a new program with a special theme. The subjects have been many and various during the years. Here are some examples:

 

 

•        Remembrance-dates:

   

1.    70 years after the Catastrophe of Asia Minor in 1922, when the Greeks had to leave the present Turkish coast,

    

2.    50 years after the end of Second World War, which was remembered by singing songs of peace.

    

 

•      Poets and composers :

   

1.    Nikos Gatsos,

    

2.    Christos Leondis with his music of F.G.Lorcas texts,

    

3.    Dionyssis Savopoulos, 

    

4.    10 Troubadours,

    

5.    10 more Troubadours

    

 

•        Various other themes :

   

1.    Songs of the Sea,

    

2.    The Zeimbekiko(a special rhythm)-songs,

    

3.    Modern Greek Songs

    

4.    Music we like

    

5.    Whatever I search

    

 

During the years new members have joined the group and old ones have left, but there is still a certain loyalty to the original idea: To sing and play Greek songs with a common theme, often in combination with poetry, historical or biographic references, photos or drawings etc.  

 

 

The Musical Friends of Samos now consists of app. 15 persons spending their spare time during winter trying to find the main idea of the year and make it performable. When springtime comes, we are ready to show the results of our efforts in towns and villages of Samos. We have also visited other Greek islands and neighboring Turkey as well as  Italy.

 

 

Koncerts:

 

 

2003 “Nikos Gatsos” :

 

Lesxi Erasitexnon, Samos

 

Pirgos

 

Pagondas

 

Koumeika

 

Karlovassi

 

 

2004 “Dionyssis Savopoulos” :

 

Lesxi Erasitexnon, Samos

 

Pirgos

 

Ormos Marathocambos

 

Mytilini

 

Karlovassi

 

Keffalonia island

 

 

2005 “10 trobadours” :

 

Lesxi Erasitexnon, Samos

 

Marathokambos

 

Pagondas

 

Karlovassi

 

Ambelos

 

Pythagorion

 

Naxos island

 

Turkey

 

 

2006 “Trobadours continoued” :

 

Lesxi Erasitexnon, Samos

 

Lesxi Erasitexnon, Samos (with Apoplous magazine)

 

Samos – Sofouli Statue (Festival of Nature)

 

Italy (Crotone)

 

Pagondas

 

Ikaria island

 

Lekka

 

Pythagorion

 

Pirgos

 

Naxos island

 

 

2008 “Whatever I search” :

 

Mytilini (march)

 

Karlovassi (march)

 

Lesxi Erasitexnon, Samos (march)

 

Proti Serron, North Greece - 7^th pupils festival (may)

 

Fourni island - Greek-Turkish frienship festival (june)

 

Planned : Kusadasi - Greek-Turkish friendship festival (5.july)

 

 

Koumeika (12.july)

 

Cinema Rex in Mytilini 80 years birthday (20.july)

 

Planned : Historical archives of Samos – with Apoplous 

 

 

Who are we? :

 

 

2008:

 

Instruments and voices:

 

Bouzouki – Dimitris Ioannidis

 

Accordion – Manolis Karlovasitis

 

Piano – Vangelis Leontidis

 

Recorder – Marianne Nielsen

 

Percussion – Georgos Skapettis

 

Flute – Georgos Fakas

 

Guitar – Dimitris Chatzimichalis

 

Voices :

 

Manolis Valageorgiou

 

Eleutheria Kalaitzi

 

Dimitris Kondilis

 

Maria Leontidou

 

Marili Lymberi

 

Leuteris Stylianidis

 

 

Contact :

 

E-mail : moupasa@yahoo.gr

 

Adress : Lesxi Erasitexnon, Saxtouri 4, 83100 Samos, GR-Hellas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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