Anopolis World Music Festival marks five years of presence in the public spaces and monuments of Thessaloniki’s Ano Poli (Upper Town) and invites you to join us for a three-day celebration of contemporary musical creation on September 9, 10, and 11, 2025.
Having musically journeyed together through more than 25 locations in the Upper Town, this year we return to familiar corners and discover new ones - once again shaping public space as a place of vibrant gathering, dialogue, and coexistence.
Across nine different sites in the historically multicultural Upper Town, ten concerts will take place featuring solo, duet, and trio ensembles from Greece and abroad. Drawing inspiration from world musical traditions, the artists will present original compositions as well as new arrangements of traditional music, through a rich sonic palette that bridges East and West. Improvisation, experimentation, multiple languages and styles weave a polyphonic mosaic of melodies echoing from Greece, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean, to Anatolia, the Black Sea region, and beyond.
We invite you to join us in experiencing the power of music to transform public space into a place of cultures, stories, and collective expression. Music knows no borders, and in Ano Poli it brings us together, inspires us, and sparks encounters. It becomes a celebration that embraces us all.
The Anopolis World Music Festival is organized by the non-profit civil company olipoli, under the auspices and with the support of the Ministry of Culture and the Directorate of Culture and Tourism of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, with the participation of the Municipality of Neapoli-Sykies, and in collaboration with the 3rd Municipal Community of the Municipality of Thessaloniki and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Thessaloniki City.
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