Year

1988

Video Details

28:14; color; sound; FV-112, S1615

Description

This documentary about Nikitas Tsimouris, a Greek tsabouna player, and his family describes the history of the instrument and its construction, Greek culture and traditions, and the history of the Tsimouris family. There are scenes of Nikitas Tsimouris playing the tsabouna, a type of Greek bagpipe, while his sister Nomiki A. Tsimouris sings and scenes from the Epiphany Day celebration in Tarpon Springs. The film is a co-production of Wedu Television and the Florida Folklife Program, and was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, Folk Arts Program. It was written and produced by Nancy Michael with Peggy Bulger as project director and Yvonne Bryant and Debra Robinson as production assistants. Russ Offenbach is the narrator. The video can also be viewed online on the Folkstreams web page at http://www.folkstreams.net/film,136

Contributors

Offenbach, Russ
Theophilopoulos, Tryfon, 1935-2005
Tsimouris, Nikitas, 1924-2001
Tsimouris, Antonios
Sazalis, Nikita Tsimouris
Tsimouris, Nomiki, 1935-
Owen, Blanton, 1945-1998
Grame, Theodore Charles, 1930-2010
Monahan, Kathleen
Anton, John P., 1920-2014
National Endowment for the Arts

Corporate Creator

Michael, Nancy
Bulger, Peggy A.
Florida Folklife Program
Wedu Television (Tampa, Fla.)
Bryant, Yvonne
Robinson, Debra

Corporate Subject

Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral (Tarpon Springs, Fla.)

Geographic Subject

Tarpon Springs
Pinellas County
Kalymnos (Greece)

Personal Subject

Tsimouris, Nikitas, 1924-2001
Tsimouris, Antonios
Tsimouris, Irene
Tsimouris, Maria
Sazalis, Nikita Tsimouris
Tsimouris, Nomiki, 1935-
Tsimouris, Nomiki Antoniou, 1928-2010
Tsimouris, Angie

Subject

folklife