Nisiotika

Music of Greece
General topics
Ancient • Byzantine • Néo kýma • Polyphonic song
Genres
Entehno • Dimotika • Hip hop • Laïko • Punk • Rock
Specific forms
Classical • Nisiotika • Rebetiko • Skiladiko
Media and performance
Music awards	Arion Awards • MAD Video Music Awards • Pop Corn Music Awards
Music charts	Greek Albums Chart • Foreign Albums Chart • Singles Chart
Music festivals	Thessaloniki Song Festival
Music media	Difono • MAD TV (MAD World, Blue) • MTV Greece
National anthem	"Hymn to Liberty"
Regional music
Related areas	Cyprus
Regional styles	Aegean Islands • Arcadia • Argos • Crete • Cyclades • Dodecanese Islands • Epirus • Ionian Islands • Lesbos • Macedonia • Peloponnese • Thessaly • Thrace

Nisiotika (Greek: νησιώτικα) is the name of the dances of Greek islands including a variety of Greek styles, played by ethnic Greeks in Greece, Cyprus, Australia, the United States and elsewhere.

Nisiotika, has a well known folk dance tradition, which comes from the dances of ancient Greece like: Syrtos, Kalamatianos and Sousta. The lyre is the dominant folk instrument and other like klarino, violin, askomandoura with Greek characteristics vary widely. In the Aegean, the violin and the Cretan lyra are very widespread Greek musical instruments. Famous representative musicians and performers of Nisiotika include: Mariza Koch as credited with reviving the field in the 1970s, Yiannis Parios, Domna Samiou, the Konitopouloi family: including Giorgos Konitopoulos, Vangelis Konitopoulos, Eirini Konitopolou, Nasia and Stella Konitopoulou and other.

There are also, prominent elements of Cretan music on the Dodecanese Islands and Cyclades.

Greek folk dances of Nisiotika include:

• Syrtos
• Sousta
• Kalamatianos
• Kalamatiano
• Ikariotikos
• Pentozali
• Lerikos
• Amorgou
• Ballos
• Karavas
• Parianos
• Kythnou
• Serifou
• Naxou
• Sousta Lerou
• Sousta Tilou
• Kamara
• Panagia
• Pidikhtos
• Kalymnikos
• Mihanikos
• Trata
• Ai Georgis

Nisiotika is a significant aspect of Greek culture, both within Greece and in the diaspora.

See also

• Music of Greece
• Greek folk music
• Greek dances

References

• Musipedia: Νησιώτικα