Rebetika: The Blues of Greece, with Lena Kitsopoulou
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For one night only, the preeminent wild-child of the Greek stage, Lena Kitsopoulou, and her band of traditional rebetika musicians from Greece, revive the backstreets of Athens and Piraeus in Joe’s Pub!
A musical movement that flourished in Greece in the 1920s and ‘30s, the rebetika were the songs of the refugees from Asia Minor, who had newly settled in the shantytowns of Athens and Piraeus. With rhythms and styles of Greek, Arab, Turkish, and Jewish influences, the rebetika told of the hardships of forced migration, life in the margins of society, underworld characters, the “hashish-smokers” and outlaws.
The concert was presented on 12.04.2019 by The Public Theater and Onassis USA at Joe's Pub at The Public Theater (New York).