Our traditional songs are the most precious ancestral heritage for the Greek people, especially for the lovers of our folk music. Many of them remind us of the titanic struggles and sacrifices of our ancestors for the highest good of freedom, while others transport us to images and incidents from their lives. It is a sacred legacy that we have a moral obligation to pass on with respect and reverence to future generations.
The folklorist Theofanis Lefkaditis, by traveling to all regions of the country, managed after many years of effort, to collect from our national cultural treasure 3115 folk songs, as well as various other songs. In the first volume, he recorded 1725 of them. The remaining 1575 have been registered in the second volume.