Melina Aslanidou in Sotira for the Pancyprian Kolokassi Festival

Another special festival is organized this year by the Municipality of Sotiras for the promotion of its local product, which has been registered as a product with a Certified Designation of Origin since last August.

This year, the big name that has been announced is Melina Aslanidou, who together with excellent musicians will enrich the program musically with selections from her favorite songs. The 42nd Pancyprian Kolokassi® Festival of the Municipality of Sotira presents the Sun City Hotel. Gold Sponsors: Tziovanis Konstantinou Hygiene Services Ltd and Food2Impress. Communication Sponsors: Time Out Magazine and SotiraNews.com

The singer Aimili Charalambous will also participate in the artistic program of the Festival with the Music Band "Beautiful Night".

The 42nd Pancyprian Festival of Kolokasi® of the Municipality of Sotiras will take place on Saturday, September 9 at the Municipal Stadium of Sotiras and there visitors will have the opportunity to taste free traditional and alternative recipes based on kolokasi.

The Festival starts at 8 pm and admission is free.

This is one of the longest lasting festivals held in our country and aims to highlight and promote the local product of Sotira but also one of the most important local products that our country has to show.

Kolokasi Sotiras certified in the EU

The local product of Sotira has been registered in August 2016 as a product with a Certified Designation of Origin and is among the few certified products of our country in the EU. At the same time, in 2017, the certification of the brand name of the Pancyprian Kolokassi Festival® in the EU has been completed. with all the benefits that arise for the Municipality of Sotiras from the organization of the Festival.

Melina Aslanidou - "My voice is a street song"

It is the season of the year that fills her suitcase with songs, music, energy, love and light and "goes out on the street" to meet her beloved friends in all lengths and breadths of our Greece (and not only).

"In the summer we are all more 'open', more ready to feel close to each other. It is all these wonderful concert venues that we have in Greece that multiply the emotion. We get more in touch with each other in an energy balance. Close to nature, the sky, the sea and the earth, the mood is completely different, even the songs are as if they are "bigger" more "full". I feel that the concerts in the summer are very special in themselves, they are blessed as well as our place and our souls "

Melina is our man! That is why the title of her latest cd "They call me with my little one" which reached platinum sales is not accidental. She is the Melina of our heart, who always moves us with the special tone of her voice and her impressive stage presence. In its great course it balances perfectly between the quality modern song, the roots and the tradition but also the "pure" folk spectrum, something that proved with the release of a new live album that includes 13 performances of timeless successes of the great composer Christos Nikolopoulos with Melina Aslanidou, such as "Goodnight kisses", "A woman can", "My jealousy", "There are no angels", "Let my eyes be sweet", "Stop at night", "If a love dies" and others.

With a new band, a group of excellent musicians will electrify the stage, with a program "Personal Selection", from her favorite songs.
With songs that were loved, from "What did you do and drink" and "Wrong", to "My summer hug", "Justify me", "No one stays in the house" the No. 1 success of the year "Water and Choma "(with Stavento), Melina Aslanidou, one of the most talented performers of her generation, interprets and moves, sings and fixes, in an absolutely two-way relationship with the spectators…

With her:
Dinos Georgountzos / orchestrations, piano
Andreas Karantinis / bouzouki
George Tsokanis / keys
Theodoris Miskas / guitars
Leonidas Kyridis / bass
Elias Miskas / drums
Sound recording: Angelina Yfanti / Christos Dalipis
Lighting: Giannis Karampelias