The band at present

The band as it is at present started performing in 1998. This cooperation has resulted in many (stilled) concerts and (exuberant) performances in many places, plus a cd with dhimotiká.

You can hire Ano Kato according to your own wishes: from a duo (vocals, bouzouki, guitar) to anything else you and the band agree upon. So you can have a band just the size your wallet can afford, and the space you have available can hold.  

   
   Ano Kato in concert

Photographs: Paulo Lobo     

A performance in Theater 'De Tobbe' in Voorburg (The Netherlands) guest percussionist Leon van de Berg     
 The dancing audience was going around the group in circles!     

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Ano Kato performing at the Sterren Festival in Dwingeloo, the Netherlands (four group members). Location: a cozy pub – just the kind of place Ano Kato feels at home playing. Here the audience can walk around and talk, while still being able to listen to the music. In places like this Ano Kato is close to people who like to listen, or dance, to the beautiful songs. 

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Performance of Ano Kato in Theater De Molen (The Mill).

 (1999)

Performances in taverns

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Here Ano Kato is playing in a Greek Taverna in Amsterdam. As the musicians - and the audience - have noticed, every performance in this beautiful taverna turns into one heck of a party! This night, dinner plates went flying around (sometimes we like it!), and everybody was dancing until the very early hours. 

                                                                                                                   Photographs:: Maarten van Harmelen

And 'o teketzís' eggs the situation further on!

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Sometimes Ano Kato has an audience with people who can really dance, like the group Ozan. This group is dancing with passion, art and technique, but most of all with a lot of joy, so Ano Kato is performing very inspired!
As you can see: this gives Jur an enormous pleasure!

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Photographs: Jaap van de Gevel.
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Ano Kato can also be hired by individuals for weddings, birthdays and any other occasion where a Greek orchestra (and more often than not, Greek food as well!) can heighten the celebrations. Of course there will be dancing, reeling if necessary between the tables if the room is a bit cramped. Here a celebration in Greek restaurant Delfi in Assen. All group members of Ano Kato are present.

Photographs: Marc Ellenbroek   

CD 'Levèndes apo ta xèna'

Recording 'Levendes apo ta xena'. The cd was recorded at the house of friends. For the occasion, part of the house had been transformed to a temporary studio. Here are some pictures taken during the recording.

The presentation of the cd.

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Ano Kato plays 'O Janos' (cd-presentation in 1999)

 (1995)

A perfomance in Nikos Tsiaxiras’ well-known restaurant Olympia in Amsterdam. Ano Kato played here many times. Without Ano Kato knowing it, this perfomance turned out to be a farewell party: at the time Nikos did not tell anybody he would be closing the restaurant within two weeks’ time. Nevertheless, it was a great party.

Much to the joy of Ano Kato, by now Nikos has opened De Griekse Taverna at the Hobbemakade in Amsterdam. Of course, Ano Kato has been heard and seen there already.

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Uitmarkt 1999: performance in the open air in Groningen.

(1999)