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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
Music collector, scholar and Grammy-winning music producer Christopher King was to present An American in Epirus: A Southern American Listening to Northwestern Greek Blues (Moirologia) at The Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage (SPGH) in Washington, D.C.
King said he’d share his wondrous encounter with Epirotika, laments from Epirus and his falling in love with the music and people of the Greek region and how he connected with the Greek blues and its link to the home of the Blues in the southern US. He would also discuss his book, Lament from Epirus with SPGH Chairman Dr. Vassilis Koliatsos and members of the audience. King said he’d also play rare examples of southern blues music and demotika from original 78 RPM discs for the audience and talk about the shared values of US and Greek Blues and their overtones.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
CALIFORNIA - The University of Southern California canceled its main graduation ceremony and dozens more college students were arrested at other campuses nationwide Thursday as protests against the Israel-Hamas war continued to spread.
NEW YORK — The third day of witness testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial concluded Thursday after Trump's lawyers got their first chance to question a witness on the stand.
ATLANTA — As Donald Trump seeks a return to the White House, criminal charges are piling up for the people who tried to help him stay there in 2020 by promoting false theories of voter fraud.
ATHENS - Voters should see the whole picture when they go to cast their ballot in the European Parliament elections on June 9, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an interview on Thursday.