Livia Giaffreda & Nino Conte, Katerina Douka & Stamatis Pasopoulos (ita-gr)

Flanders already got to know both singers through their part in the Mediterranean Hiraeth project by composer and violinist Wouter Vandenabeele.

Livia Giaffreda builds her repertoire on the frame drum and her voice, starting from oral Mediterranean traditions to which she gives a contemporary reading — she has performed with Redi Hasa, among others, and toured a solo concert series called Piel. Nino Conte accompanies her on accordion.

Katerina Douka began singing and dancing in a student dance group in Thessaloniki, before devoting herself fully to rebetiko in 2007 — the urban folk music that emerged in the port districts of Greece, steeped in migration and longing. Since 2010 she and Stamatis Pasopoulos have formed the duo "ραδυόφωνο" (radiophone), dedicated to songs from the 1930s.