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With Christos Nikolopoulos and Athena Kampakoglou
“Songs Of Friendship Special”
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Broadcast date: Saturday 27 May 2023 at 22:00

A special tribute to the songs of friendship will be presented by the journalist Athina Kampakoglou and the composer Christos Nikolopoulos, on Saturday May 27, 2023, at 10 pm, at ERT2 channel.

“Φιλία εστί μία ψυχή εν δυσί σώμασιν ενοικουμένη” (Friendship is a soul that inhabits two bodies).

All lyricists, composers, songwriters, have written about the wonderful emotional bonding of people through friendship, sometimes with words and notes of gratitude, sometimes with complaint, sometimes with bitterness. And that’s because everything forged in the fire, just like a friendship, sometimes goes awry.

Journalist Athina Kampakoglou and composer Christos Nikolopoulos create an episode with songs of friendship in “Courtyard of Colors”, in order to highlight the musical creations, which dedicated notes and words to describe this so selfless emotional bond of people.

Two extremely beloved women, whose relationship does not oxidize over time, will talk about the value of their friendship and how we should take care of it and protect it over the years: the wonderful actress Alexandra Palaiologou and her lawyer friend Evangelia Papantonopoulou.
Psychologist Stella Argyriou talks to us about all these feelings and human behaviors, which are the conditions to “build” or sometimes even “destroy” a friendship.

The songs written about friendship, which always move with the purity they refer to this relationship, are interpreted with respect and love by Konstantina, Lefteris Kindatos, Haritini Panopoulou and Ioanna Saatsaki.

The stories behind the songs and the creators are told by the renowned historical researcher of the show, Kostas Balachoutis.

The journalist Athena Kampakoglou and the composer Christos Nikolopoulos, through the show “The yard of colors”, always make sure to highlight the quality songs written with respect, effort and love by the excellent Greek lyricists and composers.

Orchestrations and conducting: Nikos Stratigos

The musicians play: Nikos Stratigos (piano), Dimitris Reppas (bouzouki), Yiannis Stamatogiannis (bouzouki), Tasos Athanasias (accordion), Kostas Seggis (keyboards), Grigoris Syntridis (drums), Polys Pelelis (bass), Manolis Kottoros (violin ), Vangelis Kontaratos (guitar), Natasa Pavlatou (percussion).

The new songwriter, guitarist and performer Haritini Panopoulou, on Wednesday November 2 at the Sfinga music stage, presents her new album entitled “Mystic emotions”. A collection of nine songs from the foreign pop and rock scene, from bands that left an era such as The Beatles, Aerosmith, Police, which Haritini performs in her own unique way, accompanying solo with her classical guitar. Highlighting the polyphonic nature of the instrument, as well as the wide range of her interpretation, Haritini invites us on a journey through music, with a rich palette of timbres, vocals and guitarists, full of the secret emotions that inspire these powerful songs of the world music scene.

The classical guitar arrangements belong to the internationally renowned classical guitarist and composer Panagiotis Margaris. Haritini will perform the songs of the album live, but she will also share with us the whole process and aesthetics of the album, the visuals and the video clips. The album “Mystic emotions” is released by Heaven music, on all digital platforms, but also as a physical product in all record stores in Greece and in selected stores in Cyprus and abroad.