Orfeas Peridis and Georgia Dagaki, held a music night a few days ago (February 2007), at 'Mylos' Club in Heraklion.

The place was full of people and the audience enjoyed the music copulation of the two artists! We were there and we lived a night with powerful emotions and new sounds with cretan details of the beautiful, sweet sound of the cretan lyre instrument!

http://www.georgia-dagaki.com/

It is with great joy that we inform the public that Nikiforos Aerakis was nominated for the second consecutive year for the “Traditional Greek Music” award at the 5th Annual Arion Awards that took place at the Athens Concert Hall.  Nominees for the same musical genre were the following: “Dodeka kai mia maties sta Dodekanisa” - Glikeria, Maria Zoi, Pantelis Thallasinos, Kaiti Koulia, Mario, Dimitris Basis, Sofia Papazoglou, Giannis Parios, Miltos Pashalidis, Giorgos Perantakos, Manos Pirovolakis, Trifono, Giannis Haroulis. “Epitrapezia”  - Filio Pirgaki. “Paradosiaka tragoudia tou gamou ” – Vasilis Klouvatos, Ilias Klonaridis, Giannis Konitopoulos, Mihalis Konitopoulos, Aggeliki Konitopoulou, Eleni Legaki, Elena Maggel, Poli Panou, Miltos Stamou, Mihalis Tsakalopoulos, and the album “Ta Thrakiotika” – Thimios Gogidis. The ceremony took place on the 28th of March 2006 and the event was hosting Nikos Aliagas.
The CD “Oh! Panagia mou Anogeiani”, has received positive feedback from the audiences from the first few weeks from its release and has gained the love of the Cretan music fans. At this point, we would like to thank each and every one of you for your effort to keep this musical tradition alive.

The album “Miron Skoulas – Afieroma (live recording)” produced by the Cretan Musical Workshop has made its way in the TOP50 of the official Greek IFPI charts and manages to remains there for the third consecutive week.
From the 26th of December 2004 to the 2nd of January 2005, it was at the 33rd place of the chart. Then for the following two weeks has managed to climb to the 28th place. The official Greek IFPI chart is published every Sunday by the ‘Eleutherotipia’ newspaper and its magazine ‘Efta’. The songs included in the TOP 50 can heard at the Radio Station 101,3 FM every Sunday at 11 o’clock.
The Cretan Musical Workshop feels the need to thank all of you for supporting Cretan and generally Greek Traditional Music.

Nikiforos Aerakis album “Vradies Arolithou – Live recording” has managed from the first week of its release to enter the TOP 50 of the official Greek IFPI charts. The albums remains in the TOP 50 after three weeks from its release.
From the 3rd  to the 9th of Mai 2004, the album was in the 24th place. From the 10th of Mai to the 16th, it climbed to Νο 13. finally on the 23rd of Mai the album was in the eleventh place of the Greek IFPI charts. The official Greek IFPI chart is published every Sunday by the ‘Eleutherotipia’ newspaper and its magazine ‘Efta’. The songs included in the TOP 50 can heard at the Radio Station 101,3 FM every Sunday at 11 o’clock.
The Cretan Musical Workshop feels the need to thank all of you for supporting Cretan and generally Greek Traditional Music.

It is with great satisfaction that the Cretan audience has welcomed the distinction of the Cretan Discography at the popular music awards organized by MEGA and the Greek IFPI.
It is the first time ever that a peripheral record company has won the first ‘Traditional Greek Music”award. The Cretan Musical Workshop - S. Aerakis has won the highest distinction of this category with its album ‘Cretan Classics 2’ by Haralambos Garganourakis.
The other nominees for the same category of “Traditional Greek Music” where the following albums:  "Oi megales kiries tou dimotikou tragoudiou " – Sofia Kollitiri, "Riza tis forias" – Vasilis Skoulas, "Ta halkina tis Goumenissas" – Horeutikos Omilos Thessalonikis and "Taxideuontas" – Stella Konitopoulou.
Given the high standards of competitiveness and the remarkable nominees, this distinction has an added value while at the same time underlines the popularity of Cretan music and the importance of quality and responsibility from record companies.
Our congratulations to Haralambos Garganourakis and to all those people that contributed to this success. It is worth mentioning that the 4th Annual Arion Awards ceremony took place at the Athens Concert Hall and that the award to Haralambos Garganourakis was given by the host of the event Nikos Aliagas.