The audience in Istanbul was shocked when Mercan Dede walked on stage. How could he have a red Mohawk and a pierced ear? How could he be in his early 30s? This musician who plays a traditional Turkish ...
On the final night of the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona last June, music obsessives who’d been raging all day, every day for more than a week could have been forgiven for bypassing Altın Gün‘s ...
NEWNAN, Ga. (AP) - Bahar Bingol Gjuka is not above crashing a wedding if it means collecting traditional Turkish music to share with other cultures. In fact, that’s exactly what she did in Macedonia, ...