STAGES A/LIVE

For the 2024–25 season, Stages A/LIVE, the music show on the Onassis Foundation’s digital stage on YouTube, will present legendary artists from the Greek and international scene. This year’s lineup leads with the star of American punk rock, Laura Jane Grace, in an explosive concert on a specially designed set at the Onassis Stegi -1. Her performance will be followed by the most influential artist of the Greek rock scene, Giannis Aggelakas, from the stage of the Lycabettus Municipal Theater with his “Electric Chair,” which premiered this summer. Together with the band 100°C, the polyphonic group Dioni, and a string trio, he promises a musical adventure that runs through his legendary career from the start to the present day. Finally, Joker/Two-Face, the dynamic hip-hop duo from Thessaloniki, carry the pulse of their performance at this year’s street party at Onassis Stegi.

STAGES A/LIVE was launched in January 2021 as an Onassis Foundation initiative to support independent Greek music scenes through a series of filmed live performances that amplified the Onassis Channel's digital scene on YouTube. This time, STAGES A/LIVE is evolving into a new way to experience each concert, both live and digitally. For the 2023-24 season, STAGES A/LIVE will have a live audience and will be a female affair focused on four unique femininities. Stay tuned to the Onassis Foundation's digital stage on the Onassis Channel on YouTube, because what's coming will surprise you.

STAGES A/LIVE was launched to supported Greece’s indie music stages at a time when everything was shut. Stages are coming alive again, this time in some of Greece’s most unexpected locations. STAGES A/LIVE returns to places where important things have happened. We’re supporting the Greek music scene and its artists by creating a digital stage on the Onassis Foundation’s YouTube channel: yet another venue for bringing the local indie music scene to the world’s attention. STAGES A/LIVE second season is here, in ways most unexpected.

STAGES A/LIVE is being reborn – transformed into a completely different project. You can’t imagine what’s coming, so turn the volume up.

STAGES A/LIVE is a series of concerts without audiences but with lots of music, hosted by the Onassis Foundation YouTube Channel. An alternative digital world tour featuring our favorite bands and artists, and everything we’ve experienced with them at legendary past lives held at landmark venues such as Gagarin 205, AN club, and other music stages in Athens and Thessaloniki.

Until we can all be together again at a live concert, music will be bringing us closer, even though we’re far apart, helping us to relive memories and concerts shared with thousands of people – both friends and strangers – via our screens. Greece’s indie music stages were created to support young artists, and have supported yet more audiences with bands once unknown that went on to become legends, in no small part thanks to their performances at historic concert venues. Fuzzy memories that today spark nostalgia, and a need for these stages to pull through – places where we feel safe and full of energy.

Just talking about such spaces as Gagarin 205 and AN club, bring on a feeling you can’t quite describe, like some delicate miracle, as you remember the lights and the music, the leads and everything that lies behind and before them, everyone so very close together, dancing to the powerful sounds.

In this difficult time for people working in the arts, the Onassis Foundation is actively supporting these spaces that, due to the pandemic, are close to shutting their doors for good. Stages drained of artists, of technicians, of audiences – and of life.

Culture continues to form an integral part of our existence, and the music scene remains a space where we feel safe. The indie music scenes of Athens, of Thessaloniki, of every Greek city now depend on us all. For the sake of everything that connects us with concert spaces, and for all the moments they have given us. Looking to the future together, we miss our collective musical past. Tune in to the Onassis Foundation YouTube Channel and turn the volume up – the Greek indie music scene is (a)live.