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Bringing Folk Music from Rhodes into the Modern Age

Regional folk music is an integral part of an area’s history, linking contemporary society to aspects of culture and tradition that are no longer in practice, or have been largely forgotten.

For this reason, Nikos Tzellos, a young musician from the Greek island of Rhodes, has made it his mission to revive the folk music of his native island for the modern era.

Speaking to Greek Reporter, Tzellos, who plays a wide array of instruments, including the piano, lyre, guitar, mandolin, and lute, stresses the importance of preserving traditional folk music: “Traditional music is something holy to us… we traditional musicians ought to preserve and promote what has been given to us.”

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Bringing Folk Music from Rhodes into the Modern Age

Regional folk music is an integral part of an area’s history, linking contemporary society to aspects of culture and tradition that are no longer in practice, or have been largely forgotten. For this reason, Nikos Tzellos, a young musician from the Greek island of Rhodes, has made it his mission to revive the folk music of his native island for the modern era. Speaking to Greek Reporter, Tzellos, who plays a wide array of instruments, including the piano, lyre, guitar, mandolin, and lute, stresses the importance of preserving traditional folk music: “Traditional music is something holy to us… we traditional musicians ought to preserve and promote what has been given to us.” As is the case in much of Greece, “in Rhodes, tourism greatly affected the local culture and the music…characteristics that have survived through the ages” are now nearing “extinction,” Tzellos laments to Greek Reporter.