11 Best Greek Wedding Songs: Celebrate in Style

Greek weddings are legendary for a reason — the music, the dancing, the sheer joy of it all hits different from any other celebration I’ve ever DJ’d. After more than two decades behind the decks, I can tell you that the 11 best Greek wedding songs I’m about to share have lit up more dance floors than I can count.

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I’ve been lucky enough to play Greek weddings all over — from rooftop venues in Athens to Hellenic community halls in Melbourne and Chicago. There’s a ritual to the music at these celebrations that you simply have to respect; each song serves a specific emotional purpose in the night’s arc, from the tearful processional to the sweaty last dance at 3am.

What I love most about researching the 11 best Greek wedding songs is how deep the tradition runs. You’ve got rebetiko ballads from the 1940s sitting comfortably next to modern laïká pop bangers, and somehow it all makes sense on one playlist. The thread connecting them is pure feeling — kefi, that untranslatable Greek spirit of joy and passion that every great wedding needs.

If you’re planning a Greek wedding playlist, hiring a DJ for a Greek event, or just want to understand why the dance floor at a Greek reception looks like nothing else on earth, you’re in exactly the right place. Let me walk you through every song, one by one.

Table of Contents

1. Zorba’s Dance — Mikis Theodorakis

2. Anastenaria — Giorgos Dalaras

3. Miserlou — Dick Dale / Traditional

4. Ela Ela — Antonis Remos

5. To Gelekaki — Vasilis Tsitsanis

6. Hasapiko — Traditional

7. Omorfi Poli — Nikos Vertis

8. Perasame Kala — Giannis Parios

9. Syrtaki — Traditional / Theodorakis

10. Na Me Agapas — Despina Vandi

11. Tha Se Kano Vassilissa — Tolis Voskopoulos

List Of Greek Wedding Songs

1. Zorba’s Dance — Mikis Theodorakis

🎯 Why this made the list: This is the song that made the entire world fall in love with Greek music, and it remains the ultimate Greek wedding closer bar none.

📅 1964 · 🎵 Traditional Greek / Soundtrack · ▶️ 45M views · 🎧 28M streams

Zorba’s Dance — known in Greek as Sirtaki — was composed by Mikis Theodorakis for the 1964 film Zorba the Greek starring Anthony Quinn. It was actually created as a blended dance, combining elements of the slow hasapios and the faster hasaposervikos. Theodorakis himself was under a ban from recording at the time, which adds a quietly rebellious layer to its origins.

The music begins at a measured, deliberate pace and then accelerates in that unmistakable way — gradually building until the dancers can barely keep up. That ascending momentum, driven by the bouzouki and string arrangements, creates a communal frenzy that is almost impossible to resist. It’s one of the most carefully engineered pieces of feel-good music ever written, and it works every single time.

I’ve dropped this track at weddings in six different countries, and I have never once seen it fail. People who have never done a Greek dance in their lives lock arms and start side-stepping within about eight bars. There’s something in the DNA of this song that bypasses cultural barriers entirely. For me, it’s the one track I always keep loaded as the nuclear option when a floor needs rescuing.

The film Zorba the Greek won three Academy Awards, and Theodorakis’s score was integral to its international success. Zorba’s Dance became one of the most recognisable pieces of music of the 20th century, covered by hundreds of artists and used in everything from Olympics ceremonies to Hollywood comedies. In terms of pure cultural penetration, no other Greek song comes close.

2. Anastenaria — Giorgos Dalaras

🎯 Why this made the list: Dalaras is the undisputed king of Greek popular music, and this emotionally devastating ballad is the one I reach for when a wedding needs its most tender moment.

📅 1978 · 🎵 Laïká / Greek Popular · ▶️ 8M views · 🎧 5M streams

Giorgos Dalaras released Anastenaria in 1978, a period when he was solidifying himself as the definitive voice of modern Greek music. The song draws its title from the Anastenaria, a fire-walking ritual still practised in northern Greece — a deeply spiritual tradition with roots in Byzantine Christianity. That spiritual weight infuses every note of the recording.

Musically, Anastenaria is built on the laïká tradition — bouzouki-led arrangements, a rich orchestral backdrop, and Dalaras’s signature voice that somehow sounds simultaneously raw and perfectly controlled. The minor key melody carries the specific emotional colour that Greeks call kaïmos — a longing or grief that is also strangely pleasurable. It’s the sound of feeling deeply.

I first encountered Dalaras through a Greek bride’s father who handed me a CD at a Melbourne wedding and said, “Play this when my daughter dances with me.” I had never heard it before. By the end of the song there wasn’t a dry eye in the room, including mine behind the decks. That was about fifteen years ago, and I’ve been a Dalaras devotee ever since.

Dalaras has sold over 15 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling Greek artists in history. He’s collaborated with international legends including Paco de Lucía and Al Di Meola, bringing Greek music to audiences far beyond the diaspora. Anastenaria remains one of his most beloved recordings and a staple request at traditional Greek weddings globally.

3. Miserlou — Dick Dale / Traditional

🎯 Why this made the list: This ancient Greek-origin melody has been reborn so many times it practically has nine lives, and its raw, driving energy makes it a perfect high-octane wedding moment.

📅 1962 · 🎵 Surf Rock / Eastern Folk · ▶️ 22M views · 🎧 35M streams

Miserlou is a traditional song of Greek origin — the word itself is a Greek term for an Egyptian or Middle Eastern woman — and its earliest commercial recording dates to 1927. Dick Dale, the “King of the Surf Guitar,” radically reimagined it in 1962, using rapid-fire single-string picking to turn a folk melody into something ferociously electric. The song has since passed through so many hands it’s become a truly multicultural artifact.

What makes Miserlou musically extraordinary is the way Dale’s version exploits the guitar’s lower registers and the reverb-drenched surf tone to create tension. The melody itself is built on the double harmonic scale — sometimes called the “Byzantine scale” — which gives it that exotic, slightly unsettling quality that hooks the ear immediately. It’s ancient and modern at the same time, which is precisely what makes it so versatile.

Quentin Tarantino’s use of it in Pulp Fiction (1994) introduced Miserlou to an entirely new global generation, and ever since, I’ve found it works brilliantly as an opener or a mid-set energy spike at Greek weddings. It gets people on their feet fast, especially with younger guests who know it from the film. I often use it to bridge the traditional and contemporary parts of the evening.

Dick Dale’s recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001, cementing its status as a piece of American musical heritage — remarkable for a track rooted in Greek and Eastern Mediterranean folk tradition. The song has been covered more than 400 times by artists across virtually every genre imaginable. Its staying power is a testament to the universality of that ancient Greek melody.

4. Ela Ela — Antonis Remos

🎯 Why this made the list: Antonis Remos is the modern laïká superstar, and Ela Ela [Come Come] is the track that turns every Greek wedding reception into an absolute party.

📅 2004 · 🎵 Modern Laïká / Greek Pop · ▶️ 12M views · 🎧 9M streams

Antonis Remos emerged in the 1990s as the fresh face of laïká — the urban popular music genre that descends from the older rebetiko tradition. Ela Ela appeared on his massively successful 2004 album and became one of the defining Greek pop anthems of the decade. Remos had a knack for writing songs that felt simultaneously timeless and completely current, and Ela Ela is perhaps his greatest example of that gift.

The production on Ela Ela blends traditional bouzouki with contemporary pop arrangements — programmed rhythms, layered vocals, and a hook that lodges in your brain after one listen. It’s upbeat, celebratory, and lyrically uncomplicated in the best possible way: the title is essentially an invitation to come closer, come join us, come be part of this joy. That open-armed energy is precisely what a wedding dance floor needs.

I’ve played Ela Ela at more Greek receptions than I can remember, and it consistently lands as one of the peak moments of the night. There’s a particular moment in the arrangement — a key change about two-thirds through — where the whole room seems to collectively decide to go harder. Every time. As a DJ, you live for those moments, and this song delivers one reliably.

Remos has become one of Greece’s highest-earning live performers, regularly selling out large venues and performing at prestigious events across the Greek diaspora. His music is a fixture at Greek weddings in Australia, the US, Canada, and Germany. Ela Ela specifically has racked up hundreds of millions of streams across platforms and remains a top-requested song at Greek celebrations more than two decades after its release.

5. To Gelekaki — Vasilis Tsitsanis

🎯 Why this made the list: Tsitsanis is the godfather of rebetiko, and To Gelekaki [The Little Waistcoat] is a joyful, swinging reminder of where all Greek popular music comes from.

📅 1946 · 🎵 Rebetiko / Traditional Laïká · ▶️ 3M views · 🎧 2M streams

Vasilis Tsitsanis wrote and recorded To Gelekaki in 1946, in the aftermath of the Axis occupation of Greece — a period of enormous hardship out of which rebetiko music emerged as the voice of the dispossessed and resilient. Tsitsanis was already a celebrated figure by this point, having composed hundreds of songs that would define the rebetiko and laïká canon. To Gelekaki is one of his more playful, light-hearted compositions, which is part of why it works so beautifully at weddings.

Musically, the track showcases everything that makes rebetiko distinctive: the baglama, the bouzouki played with that particular biting, metallic tone, and a rhythmic groove that sits somewhere between a waltz and a zembekiko. The song has a warm, slightly cheeky character — the lyric about a beautiful waistcoat is really about admiring a girl — and that flirtatious energy translates perfectly to a wedding context.

Including a Tsitsanis track in any serious Greek wedding playlist is a matter of respect as much as musicality. He represents the roots from which everything else on this list grew. I always love watching older Greek guests light up when this comes on — it connects generations in a room in a way that few other songs can manage. That connection is the whole point of music at a wedding.

Tsitsanis is widely regarded as the most important composer in the history of Greek popular music. His catalogue of over 500 compositions has been recorded by virtually every major Greek artist, and his work has been recognised by the Greek state with numerous posthumous honours. To Gelekaki remains a living, breathing part of the Greek wedding tradition and still gets requested at events decades after his death in 1984.

6. Hasapiko — Traditional

🎯 Why this made the list: The hasapiko [butcher’s dance] is the backbone of the Greek wedding dance floor — a slow, masculine shoulder-linked chain dance that carries centuries of weight and meaning.

📅 1900s · 🎵 Traditional Greek Folk · ▶️ 5M views · 🎧 1M streams

The hasapiko is not a single song but a dance form with a long, documented history stretching back to Byzantine times, originally associated with the butchers’ guilds of Constantinople. The music that accompanies it is played in 2/4 time with a characteristic heavy, deliberate step pattern — slow and dignified compared to the frenzied sirtaki. Over the centuries it moved from guild halls to tavernas to wedding receptions, always retaining that quality of controlled, communal gravity.

The traditional hasapiko melody featured here is one of the most commonly heard instrumental versions at Greek weddings — bouzouki-led, with a driving rhythm section and that characteristic pause-and-dip footwork pattern that makes it instantly recognisable. The dance is typically performed by men in a line, hands on each other’s shoulders, moving in tight, synchronised steps. There is a quiet pride and brotherhood in the hasapiko that is deeply moving to witness.

As a DJ, the moment I see someone lead a hasapiko line on the dance floor, I know the evening has reached its authentic core. It’s not flashy, it doesn’t need a pyrotechnic production — it just needs the right tempo and the right bouzouki tone, and I take great care to get both right. Greek guests always notice when a DJ understands the music at this level, and it makes a real difference to how the night feels.

The hasapiko has been recognised internationally through Theodorakis’s film work and through countless cultural exchange events. In Greece itself, it is taught in schools as part of cultural heritage education. UNESCO and various Hellenic cultural bodies have worked to document and preserve the dance tradition, ensuring that the hasapiko will remain central to Greek celebrations for generations to come.

7. Omorfi Poli — Nikos Vertis

🎯 Why this made the list: Nikos Vertis brought Greek pop to a new global audience, and Omorfi Poli [Beautiful City] is a sweeping, cinematic declaration of love that belongs at every romantic Greek wedding.

📅 2006 · 🎵 Greek Pop / Laïká · ▶️ 18M views · 🎧 14M streams

Nikos Vertis burst onto the Greek music scene in the mid-2000s with a voice that drew immediate comparisons to the great laïká singers of previous generations, but with a polished pop production sensibility that felt fresh and modern. Omorfi Poli was a breakthrough hit from his debut era, combining a soaring melody with orchestral arrangement and lyrics about the beauty of a city — though at its heart it’s really about the beauty of love itself. It was exactly the right song at exactly the right cultural moment.

The production on Omorfi Poli is lush by Greek pop standards — strings, brass, a quietly ticking rhythm section, and Vertis’s voice front and centre, delivered with a restraint that somehow makes it more powerful. The chorus opens up beautifully, the kind of melodic expansion that makes people reach for the person next to them on a dance floor. It’s technically a pop song, but it has the emotional DNA of classic laïká built into every bar.

I started playing Vertis tracks at Greek weddings around 2007 when I noticed that younger Greek-Australian couples were requesting him specifically for their first dance or the bride-and-groom waltz. He bridged a generation gap at events in a way I hadn’t seen since Remos emerged in the nineties. Omorfi Poli became my go-to Vertis track for romantic mid-evening slow-down moments.

Vertis has since become one of the most streamed Greek artists internationally, with significant fanbases in Germany, Australia, and the US. He has sold out major arenas across Europe and performed at high-profile events including concerts broadcast on Greek national television. His music represents the contemporary face of Greek wedding music, beloved by guests in their twenties and their seventies alike.

8. Perasame Kala — Giannis Parios

🎯 Why this made the list: Perasame Kala [We Had a Good Time] is the ultimate nostalgic Greek wedding anthem — a bittersweet, beautiful reminder that the best moments in life are worth celebrating loudly.

📅 1974 · 🎵 Laïká / Greek Popular · ▶️ 6M views · 🎧 4M streams

Giannis Parios is one of the most beloved voices in the laïká tradition, and Perasame Kala — recorded in 1974 — is arguably his signature moment. The song was released during a turbulent period in Greek political history, which gives its celebratory message an added resonance: the joy of good company and good times is a form of defiance in dark moments. It became an anthem of warmth and communal celebration almost immediately upon release.

The arrangement is quintessential mid-seventies laïká — bouzouki melody, rich orchestral strings, hand claps and a rhythm that moves between reflective and exuberant. Parios has one of those voices that sounds like it’s telling you a personal story even in a crowded room. The lyric essentially says “we had a wonderful time together, and that can never be taken away” — which, at a wedding, hits on an entirely different emotional frequency.

There’s a specific moment I always look for when I play Perasame Kala at a wedding reception — older guests leaning together, raising a glass, maybe wiping an eye. That moment is why this song exists. I’ve played it at the end of the main meal, just before the dancing kicks up again, and it creates a perfect emotional pause — a collective breath before the celebration continues.

Parios has remained a consistently popular live performer in Greece for over five decades. He’s one of those artists whose longevity speaks to the timeless quality of his best work. Perasame Kala has been covered and re-recorded numerous times, confirming its status as a genuine classic of the laïká canon and a permanent fixture at Greek wedding celebrations worldwide.

9. Syrtaki — Traditional / Theodorakis

🎯 Why this made the list: The syrtaki as a distinct dance form deserves its own spot beyond Zorba’s Dance — this is the song that makes every guest, Greek or not, feel like they were born knowing the steps.

📅 1964 · 🎵 Traditional Neo-Folk · ▶️ 10M views · 🎧 6M streams

While Zorba’s Dance is the film soundtrack recording, the syrtaki as a broader musical and dance form has generated a rich family of related recordings that have taken on independent lives at Greek celebrations. This traditional instrumental version — performed in countless arrangements by bouzouki orchestras and folk ensembles — captures the essence of the syrtaki’s characteristic slow-to-fast structure in its purest, most celebratory form. It belongs to the wedding programme as a distinct event from the film recording.

The syrtaki’s musical architecture is deceptively simple but brilliantly effective: a stately opening in 7/8 time, then a gradual rhythmic acceleration into a driving 2/4 section that invites increasingly bold footwork. The bouzouki carries the melodic line with bright, ringing tones while the rhythm section provides the heartbeat that the dancers follow. Played on a proper sound system with the bass turned up just slightly, it creates a physical as well as emotional response in a room.

I separate the syrtaki from the specific Theodorakis film recording in my sets because they serve different functions. Zorba’s Dance is the grand finale, the signature moment. The traditional syrtaki arrangement, by contrast, works beautifully mid-evening as a structured group dance that brings wedding guests together organically. I’ve seen it rescue a stalling dance floor and reunite scattered guests from the bar in under a minute.

The syrtaki is perhaps Greece’s most exported cultural asset, performed at Greek cultural festivals, Hellenic community events, and tourism venues around the world. It has been taught in schools and community centres in Australia, the US, Canada, and across Europe as part of Greek diaspora cultural programmes. Its universal appeal is one of the most remarkable phenomena in world folk music.

10. Na Me Agapas — Despina Vandi

🎯 Why this made the list: Despina Vandi is Greek pop royalty, and Na Me Agapas [Love Me] is the infectious, joyful anthem that brings the younger generation surging onto the wedding dance floor.

📅 1999 · 🎵 Greek Pop / Dance · ▶️ 15M views · 🎧 11M streams

Despina Vandi emerged in the late 1990s as one of the most commercially successful Greek pop artists of her era, and Na Me Agapas was among the tracks that cemented her superstar status. Released in 1999, it arrived at a moment when Greek pop was becoming more production-forward — incorporating Eurodance elements, synthesisers, and electronic beats while retaining the melodic sensibility of laïká. It was a pivot that Vandi navigated brilliantly.

The production on Na Me Agapas is bright and danceable — a propulsive electronic beat underpins a vocal performance from Vandi that is warm and playful. The lyric is a direct, joyful appeal: “love me, hold me, don’t let me go” — perfect wedding sentiment delivered with pop energy rather than traditional weight. It sits in a different emotional register from Dalaras or Parios, and that contrast is exactly what a well-programmed wedding night needs.

I started including Vandi in my Greek wedding sets in the early 2000s, initially to serve the younger guests who were sometimes disengaged during the more traditional portions of the evening. What surprised me was how quickly the older guests responded as well — Vandi has a warmth and a charm that transcends generational lines. Na Me Agapas specifically has a tempo and an energy that just makes people want to move, full stop.

Vandi became one of the most awarded Greek pop artists of the 2000s and 2010s, winning multiple MAD Video Music Awards and consistently topping Greek charts. Her music found significant audiences in Cyprus, Albania, and Greek communities across the world. She has performed at major Greek wedding expos and entertainment events, and her influence on contemporary Greek wedding music playlists remains enormous to this day.

11. Tha Se Kano Vassilissa — Tolis Voskopoulos

🎯 Why this made the list: Tha Se Kano Vassilissa [I Will Make You a Queen] is the ultimate declaration of devotion — a classic laïká gem that was made for the bride’s spotlight moment.

📅 1971 · 🎵 Classic Laïká · ▶️ 4M views · 🎧 3M streams

Tolis Voskopoulos was one of the great romantic voices of Greek popular music, and Tha Se Kano Vassilissa is his most iconic recording. Released in 1971, the song is a bold, tender promise from a man to the woman he loves — he will make her a queen, give her everything, honour her always. The lyrical directness and the passionate delivery made it an instant classic, and its suitability for a wedding celebration is almost too obvious to state.

The musical arrangement is classic early-seventies laïká — lush strings, a dignified bouzouki melody, and a vocal performance from Voskopoulos that moves between tenderness and declaration. He had a way of conveying absolute sincerity that few singers achieve, and on Tha Se Kano Vassilissa that quality is on full display. The tempo is stately and graceful, perfect for a slow dance or a bride-and-groom moment.

I’ve used this song specifically as a bride’s spotlight — the moment in the evening when the couple dances alone and the guests watch and applaud. It translates the sentiment of the lyric directly into a physical ritual, and it is genuinely moving every time. Greek fathers of the bride in particular respond to this track with enormous emotion; it says exactly what they feel about their daughters on the most important day of their lives.

Voskopoulos is one of the best-selling Greek artists of all time, with a career spanning six decades and a catalogue that remains deeply loved across the Hellenic world and diaspora. He received numerous lifetime achievement recognitions from Greek cultural institutions and the music industry. Tha Se Kano Vassilissa is among his most-streamed recordings on modern platforms and is regularly cited in polls of the greatest Greek songs ever recorded.

Fun Facts: Greek Wedding Songs

Zorba’s Dance — Mikis Theodorakis

Composed under ban: Theodorakis was prohibited from recording music by the Greek military junta at the time, which makes the global triumph of Zorba’s Dance particularly ironic.

Anastenaria — Giorgos Dalaras

Fire-walking roots: The Anastenaria ritual that inspired the song involves devotees walking barefoot over hot coals while holding sacred icons — one of the most extraordinary living religious traditions in Europe.

Miserlou — Dick Dale / Traditional

Single-string mastery: Dick Dale learned the melody from his Lebanese uncle and played the entire piece on a single string to avoid having to learn the chord inversions — a limitation that accidentally created its iconic sound.

Ela Ela — Antonis Remos

Diaspora anthem: Ela Ela is reportedly one of the most played Greek-language songs at weddings in Melbourne, Australia, which has one of the largest Greek diaspora populations in the world outside Greece itself.

To Gelekaki — Vasilis Tsitsanis

Wartime composition: Tsitsanis composed dozens of songs during the Axis occupation of Greece without being able to record them; To Gelekaki was among those finally captured on record immediately after liberation.

Hasapiko — Traditional

Byzantine guild dance: The hasapiko was originally danced exclusively by members of the Constantinople butchers’ guild as a ritual display of craft and brotherhood — its migration to wedding celebrations took several centuries.

Omorfi Poli — Nikos Vertis

Vertis’s heritage: Nikos Vertis is of Greek-Albanian heritage, and his crossover appeal between Greek and Albanian-speaking audiences has given his music a reach that goes well beyond the traditional Greek market.

Perasame Kala — Giannis Parios

Parios’s island roots: Giannis Parios was born on the Cycladic island of Paros — his name literally means “the one from Paros” — and the island’s musical heritage strongly influenced his warm, lyrical vocal style.

Syrtaki — Traditional / Theodorakis

Not actually traditional: Despite its global perception as an ancient folk dance, the syrtaki was essentially invented for the 1964 film by Theodorakis, making it one of the most successful pieces of “invented tradition” in musical history.

Na Me Agapas — Despina Vandi

Vandi’s acting career: Beyond music, Despina Vandi became a beloved television actress in Greece, appearing in popular soap operas that further cemented her status as a national cultural figure.

Tha Se Kano Vassilissa — Tolis Voskopoulos

Six-decade career: Voskopoulos began performing in the 1960s and was still giving live concerts in the 2010s — a career longevity matched by very few popular music artists anywhere in the world.

There’s no playlist on earth quite like a well-crafted Greek wedding set, and these eleven songs represent the heart of what makes those celebrations so unforgettable. Whether you’re a couple planning your big day, a DJ doing your homework, or just a music lover who fell down the Greek music rabbit hole — I hope this list serves you well. Keep the bouzouki ringing and the dance floor moving.

— TBone, leveltunes.com

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the most popular Greek wedding song of all time?

Zorba’s Dance by Mikis Theodorakis is almost universally recognised as the most iconic Greek wedding song, and in my experience behind the decks it’s the one track that transcends cultural boundaries entirely. Whether your guests are Greek or not, that accelerating melody gets everyone moving. It’s been the DNA of Greek celebration music for sixty years and shows absolutely no sign of fading.

What makes a great Greek wedding song?

A great Greek wedding song needs kefi — that untranslatable Greek spirit of joy and communal passion — but it also needs to serve a specific function in the evening’s arc. The best songs either invite group dancing, provide an emotional anchor for a slow dance moment, or carry the weight of tradition and memory that makes Greek celebrations so distinctly meaningful. Balance between the traditional and the contemporary is everything.

Where can I listen to Greek wedding music?

Spotify has strong Greek music catalogues including dedicated playlists for Greek weddings, laïká, and rebetiko that are well-curated and regularly updated. YouTube is equally excellent and often has full concert footage that gives you the live energy of these songs in context. For the authentic experience, though, I always recommend attending a live Greek community event or festival — nothing replaces hearing a bouzouki in a room full of people who genuinely love this music.

Who are the most famous Greek wedding music artists?

Giorgos Dalaras, Antonis Remos, and Nikos Vertis are the three names I hear most consistently from couples planning Greek weddings today, spanning traditional laïká, modern pop-laïká, and contemporary Greek pop respectively. For classic and historical foundations, Vasilis Tsitsanis and Tolis Voskopoulos are the essential figures. Despina Vandi represents the contemporary pop end of the spectrum and is absolutely essential for any wedding that wants to keep younger guests on the floor.

Is Greek wedding music popular outside Greece?

Enormously so — particularly in Australia, the United States, Canada, Germany, and Cyprus, all of which have significant and culturally active Greek diaspora communities. Melbourne’s Greek community is one of the largest outside Greece and has its own thriving live music scene centred on laïká and rebetiko. Zorba’s Dance and Miserlou specifically have escaped their cultural origins entirely and are now recognised worldwide, but the deeper catalogue of Greek wedding music has devoted followers on every continent.