Kostas Novakis

Kostas Novakis (Greek Κώστας Νοβάκης, Macedonian: Костас Новакис; b. 1957 ) is a musician and amateur ethnographer from Greece. He is a member of the Slavic -speaking ethnic group in the Greek part of Macedonia. Kostas Novakis collects and publishes recordings of traditional folk music in local Macedonian Slavic dialects.

Biography

Kostas Novakis comes from Koufalia, near Giannitsa, Greece, where he works as a dentist. Since the mid- 90s he documented Slav- Macedonian songs in various locations in Western and Central Macedonia. He started this music also self along with his wife Haroula, an ethnic Greek, interpret and record. Originally, the recordings were distributed privately among friends. In 2002 and 2003 he published three CDs with a collection of these songs accompanied by local musicians and musicians from the border towns and Gevgelija Bogdanci in the neighboring Republic of Macedonia. The CDs contain tracks on Macedonian and Greek. The publication was described in the press as the first of its kind in Greece and as the " taboo " because this kind of music in Greece was for decades not publicly presented and not previously documented. He admits to have taken on more than 1000 songs in local Macedonian Slavic dialects. Novakis is a member of the "Center for Macedonian Culture " in Greece and was a guest of "Meetings of refugees from Aegean Macedonia " in Trnovo, Republic of Macedonia.

Discography

• White field down to the White sea ( Avlos Editions) ( Λευκός κάμπος πλάι σε θάλασσα λευκή / Бело поле до Белото море )
• Rising of the green forest ( Avlos Editions) ( Πράσινο δάσος / Развила гора зелена )
• Offer from Thessaloniki ( Avlos Editions) ( Πρόσφορα από τη Θεσσαλονίκη / Понуда од Солун )

• Musicians (Greece )
• Greek
• Born in 1957
• Man