Palio Parea

PALIO-PARÉA means ‘among old friends'. Loek Schrievers, Margôt Schenk and friendly musicians started performing under this name since 1992 as part of their quest for adventure in Greek music. The group has developed an authentic recognizable style because of Loek Schrievers ' bold compositions and also because of their choice and pert arrangement of Greek songs.

Although different Greek styles are represented in their repertoire, Palio-Paréa's most important source of inspiration within Greek music is rembétika . This is folk music from and about the edge of society during the first half of the twentieth century (see also the section on rembétika ). Their fondness for this type of music is also reflected in Palio-Paréa's prominent use of traditional rembétika musical instruments like the bouzouki and the baglamas .

The band PALIO-PARÉA played since 1993 numerous theatres and festivals in Holland, Belgium, Germany. Did lots of radio interviews and performances on radio programmes.