The event about Thessaloniki through its songs is interesting
It started with the location where Polychoros is located, the Faliro area and continued with a multitude of areas that have inspired old and newer songs. Areas such as Vardaris, Toumba, Gendi Koule, Kalamaria etc. referring to unseen sides that manage to inspire lyrics of much-sung and beloved songs.
A special mention was made of Vassilis Tsitsanis, who spent his most creative periods in Thessaloniki, from the time he joined the Order of Telegraphists together with Charilaos Florakis, until the “Cloudy Sunday” he experienced when two resistance fighters who wrote anti-Nazis fell asleep . slogans and inspired the lyrics. The information that Tsitsanis, even though he was not part of the EAM, wrote 2 yms which was played in some cases only the melody as slogans to trumpet the resistance also caused interest.
Iconic artists such as Dimitris Mitropanos were mentioned, who in his first recorded song (with music by Giorgos Zambetas and lyrics by Ilias Iliopoulos) sang that “Tonight at midnight I will come to Thessaloniki”. Among others, Stratos Dionysiou, Pavlos Sidiropoulos, “Xembarkoi”, “Wooden Swords”, Manolis Chiotis, the poets Nikos Kavadias and Kostas Lachas, Markos Vamvakaris, Manolis Rasoulis, Nikos Papazoglou, Paschalis Terzis were discussed, among others and younger people who today are inspired by the city, raise socio-political issues, such as Dimitris Mystakidis, Phoivos Delivorias, LEX, Pavlos Pavlidis.
Finally, reference was made to the so-called Sephardic songs that were written by the Jewish population of the city and echoed their daily life, their perceptions.