On Thursday 11/9, Anna Bithikotsis presents her precious book “And Father and Myth – Gregory Bithikotsis 1922-2005” as part of the 53rd Bithikotsis Book Festival in Pedion of Areos.

The presentation will take place at 21.30 on the stage of Antigoni Metaxas – Krontira by prominent art and journalism.

They will talk about the book:

  • Maria Tzobanaki (actor, Ambassador of Culture of Crete, Director of the New York Greek Film Festival)
  • Paul Tsimas (journalist)
  • Sotiris Chatzakis (actor, director, former artistic director of the National Theater and KATBE
  • Anna Bithikotsi Coordinator: Nikos Thrasivoulou (journalist)

Writer Anna Bithikotsis gives us an invaluable book, for the history of our music. A valuable testimony of her beloved father and leading Greek performer Gregory Bithikotsis.

Her book “And Father and Myth – Gregory Bithikotsis 1922-2005” is a fascinating, moving recording of human moments of the mythical performer and at the same time testimonies of stations of his huge career, in which she was an eyewitness.

In the pages of Anna Bithikotssi’s immersive book, the most important creators of the Greek song who have trusted their work in the insurmountable performer with “Wooden Voice”, is also marked, but is also presented in a unique way the social context in which his true life is transcended.

The author herself in her note on the back cover states:

“In this memory album I record with immense love and tenderness my life next to my expensive father, Gregory, your own Bithikotsis. I respect our moments, as I experienced them, sometimes through my childhood eyes and sometimes through the eyes of adolescence and maturity.

I remember the timeline of his bright work, the conditions under which his compositions were written and the compositions of our great poets and composers, which he traveled with his voice to immortality. The poem is filled with anecdotal photographic material from my personal archive, with press entries from 1963 to 2005 and with historical documents that outline Greek society, useful for the reader and the researcher.

Through the awake heart of my mother, Theocles, the first partner of his life, his brothers and his friends, as well as our insurmountable composers, poets and classical performers, I deposit without sparing from Alpha to Omega their lives next to him. Through their memories come to light the unknown to us, their feelings and their reflections. I find the words he was telling me again! My memories, the performances of his soul behind the lights, the ones he did not see and applaud. Soul representations that fluttered in the skies of life we ​​joined.

With a deep dip in my family’s life, I recall our own lives from the bottom of the past, turning time back and counting, wave of wave, his travels from the first to the last. “

The book “Both Father and Myth – Gregory Bithikotsis 1922-2005” is released by the eighth editions and you can get it throughout the Book Festival in Pedion Areos from the Eighth Editions Pour 157 – 158, from all the bookstores as well as from Ogdooshop.gr.