GRis Festival

A poetry and music evening at Bush Hall in London, part of the GRis Festival, in which the band Ypogeia Revmata sets verse by the Greek poets Palamas, Karyotakis, Varnalis and Gryparis to music.

The programme, titled Poetry IN Music, brings together the work of four Greek poets, Palamas, Karyotakis, Varnalis and Gryparis, and the band Ypogeia Revmata. The band presents new and older original compositions, arranged specially for this occasion, so that the literary and musical material sits side by side.

The evening opens with a speech by Andreas Michalopoulos, a Latin philologist at Athens'National and Kapodistrian University. The performance then moves between musical settings of the poems and the band's best-known songs, combining the two in one continuous set.

The concert takes place at Bush Hall, a concert venue in London. The evening is built around the link between classical poetry and contemporary music, and is presented as part of the GRis Festival.