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If the talents of singer and lute player George Xylouris seem otherworldly, even god-given, it is hardly surprising. One of the best-loved artists on Crete, the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, Xylouris is a member of a clan long-regarded throughout Greece as musical royalty, a clan that hails from Anogeia, a mountain shepherding village down the hill from the Cave of Zeus, that hotspot of ancient mythology. George could not have been anything else but a musician: his father is the Cretan singer and lyra player Psarantonis, a man beloved of everyone from ethnomusicologists to Nick Cave. His late uncle was the iconic Nikos Xylouris, a singer and lyra player who became a symbol of the protest movement that brought down the Greek military junta in 1973, comparisons with Bob Dylan are often made.
George formed the duo Xylouris White with Australian drummer Jim White and they have recorded five albums together, all produced by Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto with the latest, The Forest In Me, released on Drag City. Their live shows have become the stuff of legend, don’t miss a chance to see them.