Athens Rebetiko Festival

About Our Festival

The truth is that the existence and the establishment of ‘Rebetiko’ does not need a Rebetiko Festival.

Rebetiko is a highly experiential, emotional musical genre that was born at the beginning of the 20th century, carries on its back half a century of Greek history and has been firmly etched in our cellular world.The initiative, to take place and with the wish to establish an annual Athens Rebetiko Festival by a "pentaple" of people, the three of whom make up the "Grecous" Greek Music Archive, seemed to us like a seed that was missing from the Attic land. What was impressive for us was that the very first steps of this effort were embraced with such warmth and excessive zeal by dozens of volunteers, artists and people of culture, that we do not hide from you that it was our main flame of implementation. And this is because we too hoped and aimed for a collective and creative cultural osmosis. A fermentation not only of musicians, bands, patrons and artists but also of institutions, academics, musicologists, researchers, journalists, writers, instrument makers, Karagiozi performers and all those people who deal with the genre the dissemination & rescue of the Greek Musical Culture, so as to create a common ground. A place of musical soul deposit, research, study, recording, Rebetico indulgence and traveling extroversion.

Festival Services Offered

Join us for an unforgettable experience featuring talented bands and singers at our annual festival.

Live Music Events

Experience captivating performances from various bands and singers celebrating the rich culture of rebetiko.

Cultural Workshops

Participate in engaging workshops that explore the history and techniques of rebetiko music and dance.

Children's play corner

Karagiozis Performance

Lectures- Conference- Book presentation

Musical Instruments Exhibition

Festival hilights

If you wake up in the morning and see that you are still wearing your wristband...it means you had a good time yesterday!!!

Christos F.

★★★★★

Declaration - Compliance

The project collects and processes personal data, which is limited to what is strictly necessary for historical documentation and the identification of photographic material. Under no circumstances is it the practice of the project to publish personal data of living persons and to match scenes from the life of the city with the active activities of our fellow citizens or professionals against their will.

The protection of personal data is covered in our country as well as in the EU with a strong institutional framework based on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its implementing law 4624/2019 (Government Gazette A' 137/ 29.8.2019), which we apply faithfully.

In accordance with the law, citizens retain in all cases the following rights in all cases, inalienably

Right of access, to the data processed by the institution.

Right of correction, or completion of the data if they are incomplete or incorrect.

Right to erasure, if the legal requirements are not met and the express consent of the subjects is not obtained.

Right to restriction of processing, in case their accuracy or compliance with the law is questioned.

Right of Objection, if you disagree with the collection and processing of data or the lawfulness of the collection and processing operations.

For any information, clarification or to exercise citizens' rights regarding our programme, please contact 6977841099 and grecousfestival@gmail.com