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Check out this amazing Cretan tune

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Cretan music is truly one of the best! These songs are some of the most popular Cretan songs throughout time and are preformed here as covers by Konstantinos and Ilias Drougas. As you can see in the video, the group is dancing along using Cretan dances, which are pretty popular throughout Greece since the culture is so renowned. Let me know if you like it! I will be going to a wedding in Crete this summer and I am prepping :)


 
This is beautiful! Cretan music is so unique and beautiful. Love that the singer took a drink before. Such a Greek moment. Lol.
 
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