In Kos the whole musical summer fits under one name: the Hippocratia, the municipality's festival in honour of Hippocrates, which has run for more than thirty years and spreads dozens of events from early July into autumn, from big concerts at the harbour and the Marina to nights at the Roman Odeon, the Neratzia Castle and the village squares.
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The Hippocratia starts in late June or on 1 July and lasts until October or even November, with a summer programme that has reached more than seventy events: concerts, theatre, dance groups, exhibitions. The big concerts fall between 10 July and mid-August. Some years they are staged at the Kos Marina and the football ground in Pyli with a ticket, with names like Pyx Lax, Elena Paparizou, Marina Satti or Natassa Bofiliou, and others with free entry at the Kos harbour, such as Glykeria, Manolis Mitsias or Grigoris Bithikotsis, so check the ticket note on each night.
The venues are the reason to stay for one concert more. The second-century Roman Odeon in town hosts smaller ensembles, the medieval Neratzia Castle at the harbour mouth opens for concerts with a permit from the Ephorate of Antiquities of the Dodecanese and free entry, and in the villages there are the small theatre of Kardamena, the harbour of Kefalos, which also hosts a gathering of lyra players from the southern Dodecanese in early July, and the square in Tigaki. To close the season in late September, MousiKos brings the Athens State Orchestra to the Marina with free entry.
For the neighbouring islands, the ferry is the way: Nisyros holds the feast of Panagia Spiliani in Mandraki on 14 and 15 August, one of the largest in the Dodecanese, and Kalymnos gets its own MousiKos night in September. Hippocrates airport at Antimachia is half an hour from Kos town, with KTEL buses to the town, Mastichari, Kardamena and Kefalos, and the port has daily ferries from Piraeus.
The summer programme starts in late June or on 1 July and runs into autumn. The big concerts fall between 10 July and mid-August. Each year's dates are on Mood.
Some are, some are not. Concerts at the Kos harbour, the Neratzia Castle, the Roman Odeon and in the villages are usually free entry, while the big names at the Marina or the Pyli ground have carried a ticket. Mood shows the note on every concert.
At the Kos harbour in Mandraki, at the Kos Marina, at the Roman Odeon, at the Neratzia Castle, at the Pyli football ground, at the small theatre of Kardamena, at the harbour of Kefalos and on the square in Tigaki.
The South Aegean Festival of the Athens State Orchestra, which tours the Dodecanese every September and gives a free concert at the Kos Marina, closing the island's open-air season.
