Weekly Program, produced by ERT3 in 2021-2022.

The family, the entire body of Greek traditional expression, comes as a continuation of the history, to prove that tradition is experiential and music is a living cell that is reborn through listening and rhythm.
Families of traditional musicians, musical families. Fortunately, there are still several! We enter the small, enclosed universe of a musical family, in its natural space, the neighborhood, at the café, and other haunts where its music and dancing activities take place. The family, the music, the contacts, the influences, the transactions, the confessions, and the narratives about the family’s life and action, not only by family members but also by third parties. And finally a small tribute to the beneficial effect on cohesion and psychology, through the ritual of musical get-togethers.

Grevena as a prefecture and a city is one of the places that have musical families of seven generations. This family succession carries, preserves, and keeps alive a long musical tradition, which has survived in a big part of the Macedonian Pindos. The musical motifs, which have influences from Thessaly and Epirus, create a local sound harmony that perfectly expresses the mountain people of Grevena and their daily life. One of those great musical families is the Tsiotikeans family. Here, generations are inspired by the past, and techniques of the past and the present are harmonized to the point that the produced music is known and loved even in other lands. Foreign lands, local heroes, simple expressions of love, and narrative-poetic virtuousness, are their main features. The fact that even today these musical families resist and persist, creates an important chapter in the history of Modern Greek music.