The Paxos Festival
The Friends of Paxos's annual music festival on the Ionian island of Paxos, founded in 1986. The 39th edition ran from late June 2025 through a September close at Loggos, where concerts are held in the hall and yard of the former elementary school.
The Paxos Festival is the Friends of Paxos’s annual music festival on the Ionian island of Paxos, founded in 1986 in the garden of the English resident John Gough, who invited musicians from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London to play there. It was constituted as a registered charity the following year for the advancement of education in music, and recognised by the Greek Union of Music and Drama Critics in 2009. The Friends of Paxos took over the running in 2015, the year the programme expanded from the September classical fortnight into a wider summer season.
The 39th edition ran from late June through a September close at Loggos. September concerts are held in the hall and yard of the former elementary school, where eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century chamber and recital repertoire forms the core. The closing weeks included a song recital of works by women composers on 8 September and the “Shall We Dance?” programme on 11 September; the autumn season closed on 26 September.