Skaros, Epirus, Greece: Calming the Flock; Shepherd with Reed- Pipe (Flute) and Klarino; Σκάρος

Quinten Metsys (1456/1466 - 1530), Detail from The Triptych of St. Anne

Virgilius Romanus, Georgics, Book III, Two Shepherds with Flocks

Virgilius Romanus, 5th Century

Olympia, Shepherd Boy Playing Reed Pipe,1904, Professor F. H. Herrick

"Σκάρος" + "Τ' αρμέξανε τα πρόβατα" (ΑΣΠΡΟΠΟΤΑΜΟΣ)

COLUMBIA DG61 kitsos harisiadis - skaros epirotiko

Skaros, Kitsos Harisiadis

ΣΚΑΡΟΣ-ΠΟΙΜΕΝΙΚΟΣ ΣΚΟΠΟΣ

A Hymn to Nature

Floghera

Νυχτερινή φλογέρα

Epirot Folk Music, Jim Potts (2006)

Zagori 

Nicholas Ninos, the folk clarinettist,

Played the Zagorissian dances

Like nobody else before or since,

With Manousis, Mitsos and Bekaris

On tambourine, violin and lute.

People came from miles around,

Crossed rivers, gorges, bridges, mountains

By mule, by donkey; climbed kalderimia.

The villages with panigyria

Opened their doors and opened their hearts.

In the days before the electric lamp,

The amplifier, the microphone,

Before the road, the bus, the car,

In the villages of high Zagori,

From Monodendri, from Dilofo,

From Asprangelos, Tsepelovo,

They danced till late to the taximia,

Long before they were recorded.

9.9.1997. With thanks to Alexios Vaisdekis (retired cheese-producer, aged 79, from Vitsa and pre-Nasser Egypt).

Jim Potts