Sunday 18 March 2012 8.30pm Booking No. 11 $26/$20 Mechanics Institute
Doors Open: 7.45pm
FOTIS VERGOPOULOS BAND Fotis Vergopoulos was born in Melbourne but grew up in the
Greek town of Koroni. He developed a passion for Greek roots music
with the encouragement of his father Niko who had been a member of
the legendary Greek Australian band Apodimi Compania. Foti is a virtuoso
on the six-string bouzouki and has a huge repertoire from the Rebetika
styles that developed in the 1920's and 30's. He has been playing
regularly in Athens this northern winter with some of the best current
performers of old style rebetika including Marios Papadeas and Dimitris
Mitarakis. Foti will be returning from Greece to perform at the Brunswick
Music Festival with regular collaborators accordion ace George
Butrumlis, Con Kalamaras on baglamas and guitarist Wayne
Simmons. They will be joined by two other fine Melbourne musicians
from the new band Polyxeni featuring vocalist Jenny Theologidis
and Achilles Yiangoulli on bouzouki and vocals. All six musicians
are friends who share a passion for exploring acoustic Greek music
and can be regularly heard playing together in various combinations
in taverns around Melbourne.
Brunswick
Music Festival AUSTRALIA'S ONLY INNER CITY FESTIVAL
OF
FOLK ROOTS AND WORLD MUSIC...
PO Box 477, Brunswick VIC 3056, Australia
Phone +61 3 9387 3376 - Fax +61 3 9380 8234
- Email johnbmf@vicnet.net.au Booking Office and Tickets 9388 1460
