Spectacular Concert: A Tribute to Mikis Theodorakis. 24th June, Kallimarmaro Stadium.
A grand concert will take place at the Kallimarmaro-Panathinaikos Stadium on Monday, June 24, at 9pm.
A tribute to composer Mikis Theodorakis, the “Mikis Theodorakis Orchestra” will perform with twenty-five excellent artists. Other famous singers will be the great surprise of this magnificent evening, as they perform Theodorakis best-loved songs: Songs of resistance, of controversy, of witness.
The concert, which is taking place at a difficult time for Greece, takes its symbolic title from a song by Theodorakis written during the dark days of the military dictatorship: “You are Greek: You will become yourself again.”
Composers and singers, Greeks and non-Greeks, representatives of the Greek diaspora in America, Canada, Australia and Europe, Olympic medal winners and athletes will honor Mikis Theodorakis. Relatives of the resistance, of Grigoris Lambrakis, of Alexandros Panagoulis, of George Moustakis, of Mandilaras, people who sacrificed their lives and careers fighting against the Colonels’ Junta, will be there to listen to the songs that are symbolic of the struggle against the seven-year tyranny.
Kallimarmaro will seem a small venue for the thousands of people who will come there from all parts of Greece. Mikis Theodorakis has already expressed his wish to be present with us.
A portion of the profits from the concert will be donated to the organization ELPIDA, Committee of the Friends of Children with Cancer.
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