Music of Thessaly

Music of Greece
General topics
	Ancient music; Byzantine music; Opera; Greek musical system; Greek musical instruments; Greek dances; Worldwide;
Genres
	Church music (Byzantine); Classical music Ionian School; National School; ; Greek folk; Laïko; Rock; Hip Hop; Punk; Neo kyma; Éntekhno;
Specific forms
	Contemporary; Entehno; Nisiotika; Rebetiko; Skiladiko;
Media and performance
Music awards	Arion Awards; MAD Video Music Awards; Pop Corn Music Awards;
Music charts	Greek Albums Chart; Foreign Albums Chart; Singles Chart;
Music festivals	Athens Festival; Epidaurus Festival; Olympus Festival; Thessaloniki Song Festival;
Music media	Difono; MAD TV (MAD World, Blue); MTV Greece;
Nationalistic and patriotic songs
National anthem	"Hymn to Liberty"
Regional music
Related areas	Cyprus, Pontus, Constantinople, South Italy
Regional styles	Aegean Islands; Central Greece; Crete; Epirus (polyphonic song); Ionian Islands; Macedonia; Peloponnese; Thessaly; Thrace;

Music of Thessaly is the music of the geographic and historical region of Thessaly (Greek: Θεσσαλία) in Greece. Folk dances from Thessaly are slow and stately, and include: Kalamatianos, Thessalikos, Dionysiakos, koftos, Sirtaki, Kalamatiano, Tsamikos, kleistos, kangeli, gaitanaki, tsamikos, Pilioritikos, svarniara, sta tria, karagouna, Kleistos, zeibekiko, Rougatsiarikos, Tsamiko of Deskati, antikrystos and galanogalani.

Also, every year in Tyrnavos occurs the Phallus Festival before Easter, a pagan fertility festival in honour of the god of Mount Olympus, Dionysus which locates in ancient Greece and is one of the most famous worldwide. There is also a long-standing tradition of a cappella music in Thessaly, including in dance music.

Music of Thessaly

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