2nd MultiCultural Music Festival
"Sea Songs 2001"
Songs from the Baltic, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Seas
   Artslift is presenting for the second consecutive year the music festival "Sea Songs". Three Aegean islands are celebrating this year too in August the sea in a multi-ethnic music festival dedicated to its legends and songs.
   Kassos, the ship-masters island, Halki the beautiful island of Peace and Friendship and Rhodes, the island of Knights, will host on the 2nd, 3rd and 6th - 7th respectively the 2nd international music festival under the title "Sea Songs".
   The festival is being realised this year too, after the big success it had last summer on Karpathos and Rhodes with the participation of Parranda Cuasquias (Canary Islands), Galway Celts (Ireland), Circadian (Holland), Ross Daly and the Labyrinth, as well as local groups from Carpathos and Chalki. The overall supervision of the festival had the musicologists Nikos Dionyssopoulos, Orla Henihan και Alberto Montero.
   Within the parameters of the festival an educational programme took place, a multimedia CD - ROM, a book and a CD, as well as an educational pamphlet were published, while a documentary on the event was made. The festival was extensively covered by the press, both newspapers and magazines and television channels from Europe and Greece (EuroNews, MEGA, NET etc.)
   The festival is dedicated to the memory of the painter Theodore Andoniades, first Artistic Director of the Municipal Gallery of Rhodes.
   This year's festival, more extended, will try to establish itself as an institution in the Dodecanese, working as a vehicle for the expression not only of the dwellers of the islands that host it, but of the participating artists, as well.
   The research on the musical seafaring traditions of the participating countries will be recorded in a special printed and electronic edition.
   On August 2, 3, 6 & 7 skilful musicians of traditional instruments from different corners of the world will revive memories with their traditional sea songs, while bringing people together in a musical pandemonium.