Friday, August 30, 2013

GREECE, Crete, Houdetsi Village (Music Festival). August 2013. Playing and singing through the narrow roads around the village in a "kantada" (serenade). Vasilis Stavrakakis (singer), George Manolakis (lute), Manolis Giannadakis (lyre)

Houdetsi Festival is a 4 day celebration of Music, Food and Art that takes place in the little village of Houdetsi located 23 klm due south of Heraklion, on the island of Crete. Has been an international attraction for musicians since 2002 as Labyrinth Musical Workshop organizes seminars and master classes with musicians from all over the world for the last 10 years. Houdetsi Festival as well as Labyrinth Musical Workshop's activities are an initiative of Ross Daly who is also the artistic director of both. This year, the Festival attracted almost 23,000 people from all over the world! (www.houdetsifestival.com)

Friday, August 23, 2013

GREECE, Crete, Houdetsi Village (Music Festival). August 2013.
The lyre player Manolis Giannadakis, playing and singing through the narrow roads around the village in a "kantada" (serenade).

Houdetsi Festival is a 4 day celebration of Music, Food and Art that takes place in the little village of Houdetsi located 23 klm due south of Heraklion, on the island of Crete. Has been an international attraction for musicians since 2002 as Labyrinth Musical Workshop organizes seminars and master classes with musicians from all over the world for the last 10 years. Houdetsi Festival as well as Labyrinth Musical Workshop's activities are an initiative of Ross Daly who is also the artistic director of both. This year, the Festival attracted almost 23,000 people from all over the world! (www.houdetsifestival.com)

Friday, August 16, 2013

GREECE, Crete, Houdetsi Village (Music Festival). August 2013. A young couple during a music performance.
Houdetsi Festival is a 4 day celebration of Music, Food and Art that takes place in the little village of Houdetsi located 23 klm due south of Heraklion, on the island of Crete. Has been an international attraction for musicians since 2002 as Labyrinth Musical Workshop organizes seminars and master classes with musicians from all over the world for the last 10 years. Houdetsi Festival as well as Labyrinth Musical Workshop's activities are an initiative of Ross Daly who is also the artistic director of both. This year, the Festival attracted almost 23,000 people from all over the world! (www.houdetsifestival.com)

Friday, August 09, 2013

- I struggled only, not to make compromises and weaken my work!
- You have to pay if you want to do what you think you can do best and your hart is in it. Then you pay a price. You get less money really. If you have a job you have a security, and I never thought about that when I was young.
Robert Frank

Friday, August 02, 2013

GREECE, Crete, Itanos beach. August 2012.
(Itanos, an ancient coastal site in Eastern Crete, is located close to the unique in Europe Vai Palm Forest. Was founded in prehistoric times and was one of the strongest cities in Crete, especially during the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman times. The name comes from its founder the Phoenician "Itanos". The Minoan settlement was called Utana. Herodotus recorded that the settlers from Thera (modern Santorini) who founded Cyrene in Libya owed their knowledge of the coast to an Itanian trader named Corobios.)