Greek folk music includes a variety of Greek styles played by ethnic Greeks in Greece, Cyprus, Australia, the United States and elsewhere. Apart from the common music found all-around Greece, there are distinct types of folk music, sometimes related to the history or simply the taste of the specific places.
Read more about Greek Folk Music: Crete, Aegean Islands; Cyclades and Dodecanese, Central Greece, Epirus, Peloponnese, Ionian Islands, Macedonia, Thessaly, Thrace, Pontus, Constantinople, Cyprus
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