🇬🇷 Καρυοφύλλης Δοϊτσίδης - Πεταχτός χορός (1975) 🇬🇷

The music of Thrace, a region in Southeastern Europe spread over southern Bulgaria (Northern Thrace), northeastern Greece (Western Thrace), and European Turkey (Eastern Thrace), contains a written history that extends back to the antiquity, when Orpheus became a legendary musician and lived close to Olympus. Though the Thracian people were eventually assimilated by surrounding Balkan groups, elements of Thracian folk music continue.
KARIOFYLLIS DOITSIDIS (1930-2023) was considered the PROTECTOR of Thracian music.
Born in 1930 from farmer parents in Karoti, Didymoteicho, Evros prefecture, having musical ancestors, the well-known Stavros Doitsidis, who played the kavali and had taught Bulgarians in Greek-speaking villages of Bulgaria (Ortakioi, Stenimahochos, Pyrgos).
Karyophyllis was always fascinated by the songs of his birthday and was present at village celebrations, but he also listened to them at home, of course, from his mother Theopoula, one grandmother Chrysanthi, and the other Vergo.
It would be in 1950 that, after much pleading, he convinced his father to buy his first oud from the village of Lavara and happily began lessons with the virtuoso Armeni Sarkiz, a cantor of the Armenian church in Didymoteicho.
Then he continued with Giannis Dantis from Pyrgos, Orestiada. On his own, he now tries in every way to learn the songs and tunes of his region, trying to write musical introductions to pieces that did not have them because they were spoken or played with bagpipes, and timidly starting to appear at weddings and festivals in Karotis and other villages, while at the same time working in the fields.
A milestone in his life was his marriage to Morpho Grigoridou, witch who they had their two daughters, first Theopoula and then Lambrianna.
Who, from a very young age, almost since the late 60s, and with their characteristic voices, have accompanied him, learning the songs in turn from their two grandmothers, Theopoula and Lambrini, all these years and made us love the Thracian tradition.
Around 1954, he bought a characteristic stringed instrument, the jiubous, for various events, because it was acoustically very powerful since there were no sound machines at the time and could cover external appearances, and although it became accepted (the cümbüş), the oud apparently replaced it in its own way.
After some years, around 1960, he created a music and dance group, dancing all the dances and songs of Thrace. Notably, it was the first dance group and the best of that time in all of Thrace... (info from tvthrakiotis.gr )