The Cypriot Fiddler

Join us for a screening of The Cypriot Fiddler documentary, followed by live Cypriot traditional music and optional dinner.

Schedule:
19:00 The Cypriot Fiddler documentary screening
20:45 Dinner and music

Booking Essential! Limited space. Tel.: 77776600

In mid-twentieth-century Cyprus, weddings and religious festivals were filled with the sounds of fkiolarides/kemaneciler: the island’s traditional music fiddlers. As the decades progressed and Cyprus’s cultural landscape changed, this class of musicians slowly died out. While much of the fiddlers’ music has been recorded and transcribed, their life stories have not. The Cypriot Fiddler documentary does precisely that: it traces the lives of traditional music fiddlers from both sides of the Cypriot divide for the very first time.

The Cypriot Fiddler documentary was produced by Dr Nicoletta Demetriou, Research Fellow in Ethnomusicology and Life Writing at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and was entirely funded through a crowd-sourcing campaign on Kickstarter. In 2015, The Cypriot Fiddler project was chosen as a case study by the British Academy, and was profiled on the British Academy’s blog.

For more information, see the project’s Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/TheCypriotFiddler/

* The Cypriot Fiddler (2016; 77’)
Research, production, translation, direction: Nicoletta Demetriou
Filming, sound production, editing, subtitling: Constantinos Terlikkas

In Cypriot Greek with English subtitles.