With a concert by his students Music School of Karditsa and the unique voice of the great performer Giorgos Dalaras close it 38th Panhellenic Karditsa Amateur Theater Festival.

It was an evening full of emotion and music with the young musicians, the students of the Karditsa Music School and the 40-member choir who performed songs under the direction of conductor Ilias Pappa while dedicating a song to the lives lost on the trains. With the promise that they will never be forgotten.

He then went on stage to applause from the audience George Dalaras: “This is where my ancestors started, he said. Thank you for dealing with my case. Heraclitus said “The Gods get drunk with honours”. Imagine what people are going through.”

Giorgos Dalaras, accompanied by the young musicians, started with a song dedicated to the victims of the Tempi tragedy. The song he performed was “Fate” by the poet and lyricist Lefteris Papadopoulos to music by Zulfi Livaneli.

“Allow me,” said Giorgos Dalaras, “to play a song and dedicate it in principle to all those people who lost their children and their own people, to those who were injured and are recovering, and to all those who are mourning it now covers their lives and they have no other consolation. This song, he continued, was written in another time, for other tragedies, but I think that now, in these times, everything can express our pain and our heartbreak.”

Before the concert, Giorgos Dalaras was honored in his place of origin for his contribution and work in Art and Greek song by the Union of Cultural Associations of N. Karditsa in the context of 38th Panhellenic Karditsa Amateur Theater Festival. The journalist and artist spoke about the performer and his work Thanasis Lalas.

Giorgos Dalaras mentioned with particularly flattering comments about the experience he has from the music schools, saying: “I want to say a big thank you to all of you, teachers, students, the parents who are here, the president, your colleagues, because it is a special moment. Because we in the betas, in the southern homeland, forget some things and in these places there is another air, there is another contact with nature, but above all there is the contact with these children, with these looks, which are all anticipation, but also many question marks. And music schools give these children, really, hope and a future. Because we, in our years, did not have, while now things are going better.
So I want to tell these children, without leaving your other studies at the same time, that music is medicine. And throughout your life music and your instruments are your best friends. They will never betray you. And I want to say, that with this little rehearsal, some of the kids stand out, some want more work. And they shouldn’t be afraid of it. And tell them. Do you know how artists are built? Artists are built through rehearsals.”

And pointing to a 13-year-old who sang with his guitar, he said: “And of course I want to tell Giorgakis, I wished him in the afternoon at the rehearsal, that he becomes the new Kazantzidis, we need it”.

After thanking him George Matsikas, who traveled the same day to Karditsa to accompany him with his bouzouki and him Antonis Zahopoulos for the “amazing sound you made”, enchanted with his voice the crowds in the municipal cinema who for 10 days watched the performances and parallel seminars of the Festival.