Music Clip: Foreign Land - Mες' την ξενιτια - Mes tin Xenitia ©ajsidiropoulos - soundtrack compilation album The FigTree CD all rights reserved www.boite.com Piers Festival 25 Jan, 2015. Princes Pier Port Melbourne. the Greek-Australian Cultural League + Multicultural Arts Victoria This song written firstly as a dedication to Anthea's parents. It is now an ode to all Greek diaspora and to all peoples travelling in search for a better life, in a foreign land. Translation: "You've sailed across the oceans.. with a suitcase in each hand.. the tears still fresh on your cheeks,.. as you both set foot in this foreign land,.. all the hardships you’ve endured, unknown territories to persevere through, and in all the chaos, you taught me how to live…" - ke yiafto, sas efharisto - Mum and Dad came on separate ships at separate times, betrothed to marry in Australia. Both Ships anchored at Port Melbourne. The Kirynia in 1954, the Flaminia in 1955. Theirs was a love story. Remembering Theo and Popi - Building Facebook page - feel free to add your stories so that others empower a better, fairer, equal and just world for all beings to share on sacred earth.

The Anthea Jewels Band

Dedication to my parents

REMEMBERING THEO - July 24, 2024 - He would have been 100years

Theo Sidiropoulos would have celebrated his 94th birthday today Tuesday 24 July 2018. A little momento here with this song written by his daughter Anthea 'Jewels' Sidiropoulos (Anthea of Antheas Rubies) in 2001 for inclusion in the Australian peace project 'No Blood for Oil'. The film clip was made a few years later as part of her film-making studies at Melbourne University's Summer Film School. Theo Sidiropoulos b1924-d1998. Peace activist. If you have a kind memory of Theo, please post  below.

Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this short film may contain images and voices of people who have died. Content sourced with thanks: Carringbush Library, City of Yarra, Sidiropoulos Family Estate, The Australian State Parliament of Victoria.

My Song - "A Better World for you" - Anthea Sidiropoulos

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A daughter of the Greek Diaspora in Australia, Melbourne-born A
nthea Sidiropoulos grew up in a household where politics and music were always present, especially through her father, the late Theo Sidiropoulos, the first Greek migrant to enter Australian Politics. In the '60s and '70s it was the music of the New Wave, with composers Theodorakis, Hatzidakis, Loizos, Hatzis, a social and cultural movement that swept Greece and represented cultural rediscovery and a new seriousness about what it was to be Greek both in Greece and here in Australia. This is what Anthea identified with through her writing connecting with Farantouri, Melina Mercouri, and Joan Baez.   Her performances however are saturated in theatre and storytelling. Her muses Marinella, MaryLinda, Haris Alexiou, to Aretha Frankly, early Tina Turner, Etta James and the story of Janis Joplin over the years has lead her to become the seasoned performer she is. 

Anthea's musical endeavours began in contemporary music of rock, pop, funk and blues. A serious illness and too close a contact with death led her in a new direction – into the music of her family, her roots, her spirit, her songwriting and composing melodies of an ambient nature, taking herself as a songwriter and co-composer Achilles Yiangouli, as finalists in the MusicOZ songwriting competition of 2001 and previously, finalists in the ASA songwriting competition and the Antipodes Song Festival. Anthea self released some of her favourite songs in a Greek debut CD 'Epistrophé' Full Circle in 2001 launched at the Boite (Vic). With a music career now spanning 25 years, and after a 7year hiatus, Anthea is back to stay on the music scene for as long as it will have her... Her songs are full of life and story telling - like the time she was researching for her role in the Music of Janis Joplin and ended up on a roadtrip to San Fransisco with Janis's long serving guitarist Sam Andrew, performing four shows in his band - to enjoying a long life Pearl The Janis Joplin Show in Melbourne, and around Australia.. fast forward to January 2024 for International Women's Day another song "I am woman I am she, Imme Gynékka Imme aftí, re arranged in the blues genre style won Anthea a semifinalist position in the blues category at the International Songwriting Competition. Anthea has a blues debut CD is in the making late 2024.