Greek Music Ensemble: Tribute to Rembetiko

In this concert, the Greek Music Ensemble will trace the long history of rembetiko, a world music genre beginning in the 1900's and going up to the end of the 20th century. Rembetiko is a term used to designate originally disparate kinds of urban Greek folk music. Although it is now treated as a single genre, rembetiko is, musically speaking, a synthesis of elements of European music, the music of the various areas of the Greek mainland and the G...