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Where go you Elene of an evening (Folk dances of Greece)

Sample
Song Information
Kind:Demotic
Category:Wedding songs
Area: Peloponnese
Nationality:Greek
Language:Greek
Dance:Sirtos 2/4
Scale:-
Collector:Notopoulos Iakovos
Recording Place:Peloponnese
Recording Date:01/01/1953
Recording Responsible:Notopoulos James
Duration:4:19
Other characteristics:Performed by natives
Register Information
Register date:14/04/1995
Register:Moraitis Thanassis
Comment:1821 Kalavryta, Peloponnese. The Turk, Elmaz ağa, fell in love with Elene, one of the three daughters of the chief family of the village Livartzi. He abducted her & made her his wife. Elene was disowned by her family for this act.
Storage media:Folk dances of Greece (LP 76)
Artists/Instruments
Anonymous:Violin
Anonymous:Clarinet
Anonymous:Lute
Anonymous:Singer

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