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.

The musical tradition -continuity and expansion- is largely due to the musical families and the networks that have developed between them. Sometimes, through creative imagination and musical practices, this continuity and expansion takes on the character of a School.
The case of the old master of the Pontic lyra Michalis Kaliontzidis is exactly such a case, which took on the character of a school with many students and successors of an important traditional repertoire.
His son, Christos Kaliontzidis, is a practical but also academic successor.
Based on the old traditional patterns, father and son give musical testimonies, expanding not only the traditional music of the Pontic people but the whole body of the Pontic musical creation.
The traditional musical experiences of the dad, Michalis, are taken by the son, Christos, and with instrumental techniques and interventions on the lyre, he achieves an advanced musical step in the aesthetic acoustics of the old.
Musical experiences, testimonies, and discussions form the core of the episode Musical Families with Michalis and Christos Kaliontzidis.