George Dalaras and Christos Mastoras at the Theatro Gis

George Dalaras and Christos Mastoras at the Theatro Gis was a tribute concert to the composer Stavros Kougioumtzis, given in Thessaloniki on Thursday 5 June 2025. The concert took its title, Pou ‘nai ta chronia, from one of Kougioumtzis’s songs, and it marked 20 years since his death. It formed part of the 11th Forest Festival of the State Theatre of Northern Greece.

The partnership of Dalaras and Kougioumtzis produced songs such as “Na ‘tane to 21”, “Oi eleftheroi ki oraioi” and “To poukamiso to thalassi”. Dalaras and Mastoras had sung a Kougioumtzis song together before, at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus concert that celebrated Dalaras’s years on stage. Violeta Ikari, Aspasia Strategou and Maria Kougioumtzi joined them on stage.

A band of 14 musicians played under the pianist Giorgos Papachristoudis, who also directed the orchestra. The Theatro Gis is an open-air theatre of 4,332 seats, built in 1998 in a former quarry at Triandria to designs by the architect Manos Perrakis.