Rebetiki Serenata, Cuckfieldfest fundraiser. Full Concert. Rebetika 1940s/50s

Rebetiki Serenata play rebetika of the 1940s and early 50s.
Online live stream concert to raise funds for the Cuckfield Music fest, 2021
Performed at Antonis Mikelis' and Amuse Music studio in London.
Sound and video, Antonis Mikelis.
Friday 21st March, 2021.
Andria Antoniou-vocals/handheld percussion
George Tsolakis-vocals/guitar
George Angelopoulos-bouzouki/baglama
Pavlos Carvalho-bouzouki
1) Η μικρή του καμηλιέρη -“The Camel seller’s young woman” by Hadjichristos
About a beautiful young woman from Algeria who everyone falls in love with. She dances and shares out fun and celebration. The sweetness in her eyes drips like honey!
2) Γιατί να φύγεις μακριά -“Why would you leave for far way”, Tsitsanis
The singer asks why her lover has left, and wonders what she will do without him, now that she is alone. She implores him to return before the dark clouds bring the rain.
3) Βουνό με βουνό-“One mountain cannot blend into another”, Hiotis
The singer complains about his girlfriend who has left him. He goes from bar to bar looking for her and says every time he thinks of her he shudders.
4) Παρτίδες-“Partides”, Hiotis
The singer says to his mate that will be ruptures will open up and their friendship will end if he does not stop messing and flirting with his girlfriend.
5) Ντουνιά ανακριτή-“Oh interrogating world”, Hadjichristos
The singer speaks of how the world is full of gossip and bad mouthing. What is he doing in this world? What do you care of lives or dies?
6) Ξεκινά μια ψαροπούλα-“A little fishing boat sets off to sea”, Bagianteras
In this island song, which is in a “syrto” rhythm, the singer is greeting the fishermen and wishing them well as they go out to sea, asking them to return with beautiful corals.
7) Τσιγάρο λαϊκό-“The people’s cigarette”, Kaldaras
A tricky song to explain, but full of symbolism. Basically the singer compares himself/herself to a cigarette, saying that when her lover was poor she treated him as though he was her favourite brand, but now she throws him to the side. He tells her not to tread on her or to come by looking for him.
8) Η σκλάβα-“The slave”, Tsitsanis
A woman who is a slave in a harem never stops loving and thinking of the young man she has left behind and loves.
9) Η καρδιά σου θα γίνει χρυσή-“Your heart will turn into gold”, Tsitsanis
The singer says that however badly you might behave, however hard you may have treated her, you will not be able to resist falling in love with her and she will win you over, turning your heart from black to gold.
10) Σκοτείνιασε-“Night fell”, Mitsakis
As night falls and the streets of Athens are deserted the singer complains that he is alone, a child of the streets and no one can understand his pain. When he dies, if someone finds him and buries him, that someone will be the only person who mourns his loss.
11) Κάτω στο Πασαλιμάνι-“Down at Pasalimani”, Petsas
The singer joyfully narrates how as night falls, this is the best time when all the pretty girls go down to the Pasalimani area, drink with their guys, and go out for a little boat trip under the moon
12) Φελάχες-“Felahes”, Tsitsanis
The song imagines these beautiful oriental women, like magical portraits, who spread passion and desire through everyone.
13) Μαζί σου ξεμυαλιστικα-“You made me lose my mind”, Hiotis
The singer complains of how she abandoned her friends and family because of her lover who trapped her in his net with his magic spell!
14) Το κορίτσι μου-“My girl”, Hiotis
The singer proudly asks the world to look at his beautiful girlfriend and admire her. He feels like he has won the lottery! She is full of attitude and sweet little games.
15) Βαγγελίτσα-“Vangelitsa”, Papaioannou
Another island song. Here the singer asks what he did to Vangelitsa and she left him and went far away. His only complaint in life is that he can not see her anymore.
16) Τσιγγάνα-"Gipsy”, by Tsavalas
The singer asks a fortune teller to see if her lover will ask for her hand in marriage.
17) Το μονοπάτι-“The pathway” by Mouzakis
In life many pathways open before you. However, if you take the wrong one your heart and body will be torn and wrecked. On this road you come and go and nobody will shed a tear for you.
18) Μεγάλωσες-“You grew up”, Mitsakis
The singer complains about how the girl he loved when they were younger has now grown up and ignores him. He recalls happy moments when they kissed, but now she is engaged to someone else. Every time he sees her he remembers the past like it was yesterday.
19) Κατσιβέλα- "Gipsy Beauty", Mitsakis
The singer speaks of a beautiful gipsy. Although he has seen many beauties, with her beauty she has enslaved the whole world. He asks her to come back with him and she to become and Athenian!
20) Ότι κι αν πω-"Whatever i say I will not forget you", Tsitsanis
The singer says how he will never forget the woman he loves. The wind will carry his sweet words to her.