“Grandma Marianthi” from Mesta, Chios, in the course of her life, carried the customs, traditions and songs from the medieval village of Mesta to today.
A great loss Chios counts. As ERT reported, he passed away at the age of 96, Marianthi Kelli – Almyroudi.
The so-called “Grandma Marianthi” from the towns of Chios, in the course of her life she carried the customs, traditions and songs from the medieval village of Mesto to today, as from tying the headscarf to the new girls and the belt to the boys of the cultural club in every celebration of the Mests, as in “Aga” the custom of Clean Monday, to singing songs of mastic, of hatred, of lovers .
It is not by chance that the choice made by the Mastic Museum is to hear her melodious voice singing a traditional song from Shinia upon entering the space and facing the mastic tree:
“…I don’t want you to work on the skins to embroider
for a piece of mastic, my little one, your youth to eat
I don’t want you to work day labor
and i will pay you my love every saturday.
Let the skins dry and become a rag
in the embroidery of the skin, my little one, may I never see you again…”.
In the video, the presence of grandmother Marianthi at the first workshop for the establishment of an Oral History Group in Chios. He sings at the urging of the writer Yiannis Makridakis “The Hate Song” in January 2023 in a room of the KORAI Library.
The exit sequence will take place on Thursday, March 14, at 4 p.m. to her beloved Taxiarchis Meston.
Source: Skai
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