MANOLIS KALOMOIRIS (LIONTAS) - STOU NOU MOU TO BALKONI

MANOLIS KALOMOIRIS (LIONTAS) - STOU NOU MOU TO BALKONI

The Cretan Musical Workshop and the Aerakis publications, with great joy and excitement, present another poetic work titled "Stou nou mou to balkoni" by Manolis Kalomiris, which is connected with the soul and the glory of Anogia and Crete in general.

Manolis Kalomiris (Lionta) was born on March 25, 1925 in Rethymno, Anogia. His son, Nicolas and Maria Kalomiris, from Perachori, is married to Rikika Alkiviadis Skoulas (Gryliou) and has three daughters and a healthy one.

In 1943 he joined, along with his fellow villagers, the National Resistance. Until 1970, he lived in Santorini and from then on he went to Heraklion and worked at the "Delina" tavern of Vassilis Skoulas, who is the brother of his wife there, the spontaneous but also completely authentic mantinades of Lynda with his song "Vasilis" Squashes have sealed many personal and cononic, but also "political" moments (in difficult times), as newer epigraphs according to those of the ancient "folk poets".

Many of his mantinades, sung by Nikos Xilouris, Nikos Manias, Giorgos Kalomiris, Vassilis Skoulas and other Cretan artists, passed through the lips of mercy and became favorite and immortal folk songs of Crete.

In this little book that you hold in your hands, most of the poet's work of Lioness is presented with reverence and meticulousness in the hope, or rather the certainty, that he will offer moments of genuine Cretan poetic glory (a balm of fortune and a medication to deal with forgetfulness ) to your sensitive soul.

Stelios Aerakis

Editing by Theodoros I.Riginiotis