Our esteemed members enjoy priority access to highly sought-after events and restaurants, and exclusive invites to uniquely curated lifestyle experiences. Wer es mit Kontrolle und Disziplin nicht so genau nimmt, hat bei ihm als Ausbilder schlechte Karten. He was famous, though, for giving some unsolicited advice to a fellow student and aspiring musician. If you really want to be alone, rent a motorboat from Maltezana, an old-time fishing village, and putter to Koutsomiti and Kounoupes, tiny islands connected by a double-sided beach. The island has some of the finest beaches in Greece, with the tree-lined, turquoise-watered Koukounaries in the south the most celebrated and the busiest (forget about getting a sun lounger here in peak season).

One of the most staggeringly beautiful hikes is through the Aradena Gorge in the wild and rugged Sfakia region, ending at Marmara, a translucent cove on the Libyan Sea, for a cooling dip and lunch at one of Crete’s finest tavernas, Dialiskari.But it’s also lovely off-season, when you can hike the gentle green hills or cycle the coastal road that circles the island (there’s even a Tweed Run in October). Italian cognoscenti and Turkish yachties have discovered Leros for one very good reason: Mylos by the Sea, arguably the best seafood restaurant in Greece, with a hopelessly romantic setting overlooking a windmill jutting out to sea. Widely recognized as one of the most exciting young bands in acoustic music, Crying Uncle Bluegrass plays a unique mix of bluegrass, Dawg (David Grisman music), jazz, and modern originals. While you’re there, invest in some timeless tableware from Atsonios Ceramics, in business since 1870. The menu is based on local fish, seafood and meat dishes prepared with a touch of creative flair that mostly works well; pasta with local red squid, truffles or fishy ragù, lamb, baccalà (salt cod) and pizza.

In 1988, Marcia and Jon Pankake wrote "A Prairie Home Companion Folk Song Book," and celebrated the publication with a Nashville concert featuring Keillor, Chet Atkins, the Judds, Mike Seeger, Johnny Gimble and Ray Stevens. The beaches are slightly less splendid—with the exception of Delfini, Varvarousa, and Aetos in the wild north. Bag a table under giant white umbrellas on the flower-festooned terrace to feast on local dishes prepared by the personable Maria Mazzola, starting with the generous house antipasto before moving on to the likes of pasta with sea urchins and polipetto affogato, baby octopus ‘drowning’ in rich, sweet tomato sauce before winding up with Maria’s much-lauded tiramisù. The Dumas family, heirs to the Hermès fortune, have been discreetly spending their summers here for decades.That’s because the best beaches (such as Kalo Ambeli and Skala) are only accessible via bone-rattling dirt roads or donkey tracks. Although this place has been well and truly discovered and is often packed, the tables laid under the towering cliffs of the tiny fishing village La Praia still make a fine setting for a simple meal and a good bottle of local wine. groupid=170 You’d be very welcome there and it could be a good “safe space”, for example, to share recordings, to ask advice, etc. With its bright, open kitchen, Mimmo De Gregorio’s contemporary trattoria lies high in the hills in the small town of Sant’Agata which straddles a ridge with expansive views over the gulfs of Naples and Salerno. The bluegrass band was the recipient of the 2023 International Bluegrass Music Association’s Momentum Band of the Year award.

In the early 20th century, after making a killing in tobacco, Anargyros bought up huge swathes of the island and planted thousands of pine trees. Marina Bay Sands is set to welcome the auspicious Year of the Wood Dragon with grand festivities to usher in a most spectacular Lunar New Year. Jon Pankake, a folk music purist enthusiast and sometime literary teacher and film wiseman, [had] been watching me for a while on the scene," Bob Dylan wrote in his 2004 memoir, "Chronicles-Vol 1.In fact, it’s almost impossible not to eat well on Crete, which produces superb cheese, honey and olive oil, as well as delicious goat, rabbit and smoked-pork dishes. Gradually, the handsome sponge and spice merchants’ houses in vibrant shades of turquoise and terracotta are being revived as artists’ residences (such as Fiorucci’s 4Rooms), or enchanting guesthouses like Mediterraneo. In terms of technique and style, as a fiddle/guitarist, the things you ‘ll have to get more acquainted with are specific picking patterns (to give tunes the swingy feel they deserve) and triplets, and where to put them. Bitte bestätige den Link in dieser E-Mail innerhalb von 24 Stunden, um deine Registrierung abzuschließen. But who cares when you can kick back with fennel pie and raki at Stou Stratou, pick up Natassa Kalogeropoulou’s minimalist ceramics at Kerameio, and listen to Greek folk in the open-air amphitheatre?