WEATHER
Anogeia
Light Showers
11°C
Wind: 15 Southwest
Rethymno
16°C
Wind: 27 West
Spili
14°C
Wind: 06 West
Fragma Potamon
17°C
Wind: 13 West
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Spili - Gerakari
Length: 18.5 km
Estimated time: 8 hours
Suggested period: March - October
Difficulty: Relatively difficult ascent to the summit of Kedrou Mountain
Giorgos Kalogridis
Giorgos Kalogridis was born at Spili, Rethymno, in 1923. At the age of fourteen, he started playing the lyre. During the occupation, he lived at Spili and, a little later, he left for Athens. In this period, he recorded his first album. He recorded a total of twenty songs, some of which he had composed himself.
All recordings were made with the cooperation of two well-known and recognized lute players, the brothers Giannis and Vaggelis Markogiannakis. In 1966, Giorgos Kalogridis moved to New York, where he still lives.
Source: Cretan Music