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The Kombos Collective (formerly Greek Chamber Music Project) presents captivating programming in intimate concert settings inspired by the Hellenic World.

Vardari album out Sept 5 https://komboscollective.bandcamp.com/album/vardari-shared-balkan-melodies The Greek Chamber Music Project (GCMP) is an ensemble that celebrates the Greek world through captivating programming in intimate concert settings. Recent programs have included the East Coast tour Remembering the Jews of Greece, deeply personal songs about The Iliad in Conversations with Homer, and the commissioning of Talos Dreams inspired by the myth of the first robot. GCMP is a champion of Greek composers, shedding light on the rich musical repertoire coming out of Greece and the Greek diaspora. GCMP has released three full-length albums and performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Library of Congress, as well as cultural centers and universities across the U.S. and Canada.

10/09/2026

Kâtabim/Apo Xeno Topo • the song that started it all. I first thought this was a Greek folk song about a mysterious girl from a foreign land. It's actually a universal melody sung in many languages across the Balkans and the world 🤯

These melodies unite us 🌎🕊️

Vardari returns to the 🏵️ Red Poppy Art House this Saturday!

The event is an intimate living room-style listening experience, perfect for enjoying the intricacies and complex musical textures.

📅Saturday, Oct 10, 2026 • 7:30 – 9pm
Red Poppy Art House
2698 Folsom Street San Francisco, CA

🎟️Admission : (Online) $25 Students & Seniors - $35 General / $40 Door

10/05/2026

I love when the audience sings along. "Dimitroula Mou" is a party song. Dimitroula might seem coy, but she likes to go to town to drink and smash plates. Opa!

LYRICS:
My Dimitra,
I want to get drunk tonight
And with you,
My passionate one, to party
Let’s go to Athena, my plaything
Where there’s fun and retsina, my scandalous one

I’ll bring you a barrel-organ
Have fun, have a ball
Leave your coyness behind
Break things with your calf
And I will pay for
All that you break

UPCOMING SHOW
Vardari returns to the 🏵️ Red Poppy Art House this October 🏵️

The event is an intimate living room-style listening experience, perfect for enjoying the intricacies and complex musical textures.

📅Saturday, Oct 10, 2026 • 7:30 – 9pm
Red Poppy Art House
2698 Folsom Street San Francisco, CA

🎟️Admission : (Online) $25 Students & Seniors - $29 Early Bird - $35 General / $40 Door

10/03/2026

"Out of Time, Out of Place" • It's always a pleasure to collaborate with some wonderful people on music we love. Kombos director Ellie Falaris Ganelin talked about this program serving as a bridge between our Hellenic heritage and our lives in the diaspora.

Ohio State scholar of Modern Greek Gregory Jusdanis gave a heartfelt introduction on the universal appeal of C.P. Cavafy, whose poetry is set to music in the song cycle "Another Shore, Another Country," performed by Constantine Novotny and the composer Michael Malis.

A huge thank you to the Greek Olympic Society for sponsoring this event and bringing this resonant music to the Greek community in Columbus, Ohio.

10/01/2026

The earliest recordings of Misirlou were done in the Greek urban folk tradition of rembetiko. This song about an Egyptian woman has put listeners in a spell across the Balkans, the Middle East, and the United States. We perform this version in Greek, Bosnian, and — featured in this clip — Armenian.

LYRICS:
"You said you loved me, you declared your love,
Taking my love, you made me cry a lot.
Ah, ah, ah, my sweet love,
I tried to forget but it is impossible,
My love grows, which is unbearable."

UPCOMING SHOW
Vardari returns to the 🏵️ Red Poppy Art House this October 🏵️

The event is an intimate living room-style listening experience, perfect for enjoying the intricacies and complex musical textures.

📅Saturday, Oct 10, 2026 • 7:30 – 9pm
Red Poppy Art House
2698 Folsom Street San Francisco, CA

🎟️Admission : (Online) $25 Students & Seniors - $29 Early Bird - $35 General / $40 Door

09/21/2026

Out of Time, Out of Place: Kombos is back on the road bringing this beautiful program to Columbus, Ohio.

A look at displacement and self-discovery through artists in the diaspora featuring:

📖stunning song cycle set to the poetry of C.P. Cavafy
♥️treasured popular songs by Theodorakis and Hadjidakis
🎙️OSU professor and Cavafy scholar Dr. Gregory Jusdanis will give an introduction

🎶Performances by:
Constantine Novotny, baritone & baglamas
Ellie Falaris Ganelin, flute & arranger
Michael Malis, piano & composer

📅Friday, October 2, 2026 • 7pm
6pm Hors d’oeuvres and cocktails included | 7pm Concert
Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Social Hall
555 N. High Street, Columbus, OH 43215

🎟️$50 General/$15 Students
For tickets, contact Dean Adamantidis: 614-774-9245 or [email protected]

🏺Sponsored by the Greek Olympic Society

09/17/2026

Vardari returns to the 🏵️ Red Poppy Art House this October 🏵️

Different languages, same tunes. Lively grooves mixed with inventive arrangements of popular Greek and Balkan folk melodies, drawing a link between tunes that are so magnetic, they transcend borders. Songs in nine different languages.

The event is an intimate living room-style listening experience, perfect for enjoying the intricacies and complex musical textures.

Saturday, Oct 10, 2026 • 7:30 – 9pm
Red Poppy Art House
2698 Folsom Street San Francisco, CA

Admission : (Online) $25 Students & Seniors - $29 Early Bird - $35 General / $40 Door

09/11/2026

New song recording in the studio today! 🎙️🎶

J. Maddox Joe Belson Ellie Falaris Ganelin Sage Baggott Christina Owens Walton Duygu Gun

08/06/2026

Thank you to The National Herald The National Herald The National Herald for the press about our latest:
✔️ Winning a grant award from the Elios Charitable Foundation
✔️Fundraising campaign to make a music video about unity
✔️Uproot in concert now available for streaming

08/01/2026

Now streaming: Uproot in Concert

In collaboration with rembetiko interpreter Katerina Clambaneva, Kombos Collective's critically acclaimed program Uproot features modern arrangements of Greek music from Asia Minor, celebrating this vibrant musical heritage and capturing the refugee experience through song. This hour-long concert video features footage from live performances in Baltimore and Traverse City, Michigan.

Purchase streaming pass: https://kombosmusic.com/watch/

07/30/2026

Yes! Kombos Collective won a grant from the Elios Foundation to support our latest project, which is to compose a new multilingual song about unity with an accompanying music video.

It's groundbreaking work that captures the essence of what the Bay Area folk community is all about, building peace through music and dance.

Now the ask: the grant covers half the cost, but we need your help to raise the remaining $2,000 by August 22.

Learn more and donate to this project: https://kombosmusic.com/vimata/

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2698 Folsom Street @ 23rd Street
San Francisco, CA
94110

Website

http://www.kombosmusic.com/

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