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 ...

Derya Yildirim & Grup Şimşek play a funk-infused, psychedelic reinterpretation of traditional Turkish music. Now, they’re touring with an album that asks listeners to imagine what kind of world they ...

Asia Society Texas, American Turkish Association-Houston, and Hoppa Project present Sounds of Anatolia, from the fifth annual Turkish Music Festival, a multi-day musical event dedicated to sharing a ...

Mehmet Ali Sanlikol plays a traditional oud at his studio in Belmont, Mass. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) Grammy-nominated Turkish composer and musician Mehmet Ali Sanlikol fuses traditional Turkish music with ...

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, ...

He’s a Grammy-nominated, Turkish American composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist and professor. Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol has blazed a wholly original path for himself, creating and performing works that ...

The story of the band Altin Gun begins with an old record from the '70s. JASPER VERHULST: Seven or eight years ago or something, I just started collecting music from basically all around the world.

Students sang along to traditional Turkish music at Turkish Culture Night, held Sunday evening in De Neve Plaza Room B. Fourth-year ethnomusicology student Ryan Vig played the baglama and musician ...

CHILI, N.Y. – The Turkish Society of Rochester hosted their Annual Turkish Food Festival in Chili on Saturday. Visitors enjoyed a wide variety of Turkish food, along with listening to traditional ...