Tsiknopemti: Shrove-Thursday Carnival Event

An enjoyable carnival evening outside Corfu's Town Hall in Porta Remunda.

Free souvlakis were one of the attractions, and people loved the carnival-court satirical trial played by "drunken" masked actors. I enjoyed the kantades, especially the harmonious rendition of Solomos' poem "I Agnoristi". When the poet first settled in Corfu in 1828, he lived for a year or two in the house of Polylas, just above the spot where the "folk-troubadours" did such credit to his poem:

Poia einai touti
Pou kataivainei
Asprodimeni
Och to vouno?

...

Kai ton mallione tis
T'oraio plithos
Panou 's to stithos
Lambei xantho.

Echoun ta matia tis,
Opou yeloune,
To chroma pou 'nai
'S ton ourano.....

Maybe Solomos was back there in spirit this Shrove-Thursday, smelling the smoke of the souvlakia grilling on the charcoal: Tsiknopemti!

Details in Greek:

6.30μ.μ. «Κορφιάτικα Τραγούδια» από τους

Κερκυραίους Λαϊκούς Τροβαδούρους

7.00μ.μ. «Κρασοδικείο» Θέατρο Δρόμου από την

Ομάδα Σατυρικού Καρναβαλιού

See www.corfuland.gr for the rest of the carnival programme.