Having their own tradition in bagpipes, the Pierian Mountains are the western area of the Greek mainland where the bagpipe is still present during the last decades. A documentation of Giannis Svarnogiannis (+2010), from Daskio in Imathia, playing a satirical carnival song. Research-filming: Miranda Terzopoulou, Nikos Dionysopoulos, Elpida Skoufalou.
Miranda Terzopoulou
Miranda Terzopoulou was born in Athens. She is a former researcher of the Hellenic Folklore Research Centre of the Academy of Athens. She has traveled a lot, getting to know many places in Greece, conducting fieldwork research and recording ethnographic data. She has studied and recorded numerous forms and aspects of Greek folklore, especially of Greek traditional music and Greek rituals, working with various ethnotical, linguistic, and religious groups, both inside and outside Greece. Apart from her rich literary work, she records sounds and moving images of whatever is necessary for her research, and has formed an important archive of rare audiovisual materials.