İstanbul International Folk Music Festival

İSTANBUL INTERNATIONAL FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL

Concert

Session Details

Yavuz Bingöl will be performing his most popular songs from his albums, which have now become classics, accompanied by an orchestra.

With 'Beautiful Tango,' Moroccan-born French musician Hindi Zahra cemented her spot as a world performer on the music charts. Berberi folk music combines songs from its musical treasury, which dates from the Middle Ages to the present, with a fairytale interpretation for its listeners. Zahra mixes world music and ethnic jazz to tell stories about her journey in the spirit of a traveler through a variety of tunes. Hindi Zahra spends time in Marrakech for her musical studies, reimagining fairytale melodies with jazz, Flamenco, and Western instruments, and releasing one-of-a-kind albums. The artist, who comes from a nomadic family, frequently highlights her childhood spent on the road as her main source of inspiration.

Şefika Kutluer will be taking the stage on the second day of the festival on November 12, Friday. The artist who is commonly nicknamed “the Magical Flute” and has made a distinguished name for herself not only in Türkiye but across the world, will be performing a very special repertoire in her concert in AKM.

Following Şefika Kutluer, Le Trio Joubran will be taking to the stage. Le Trio Joubran, a group that consists of Samir, Wissam and Adnan Joubran brothers from Palestine, perform Palestinian traditional oud music. Known thanks to the news speaking very well of them, Jourban brothers play their instruments in a marvelous way that sounds as if they gave one single sound. Shown as some of the most skillful virtuosos of oud and Arabic lute, they describe their instruments as the sound of their souls and the beating heart of their bodies. Le Trio Jourdan, who have performed in several concert halls from Paris’s Olympia to New York’s Carnegie Hall, will be meeting their audience on the second day of the festival.

Hacı Bektaş Veli, whom UNESCO honoured by declaring this year as a commemoration year, and Yunus Emre, another important name from Anatolian culture, will be brought to the stage at 6pm with this special concert. In this concert called “Bir Ses Yunus Bir Nefes Hacı Bektaş” (lit. Yunus' Voice, Hacı Beştaş''s Word), Yavuz Bingöl will share the stage with Sabahat Akkiraz, Sibel Can and Kubat. Songs, which thematically deal with Hacı Bektaş Veli and Yunus Emre’s lines for the very first time, will be performed in this concert.

Chief: Eray İNAL

Azerin, who has made herself a name across Azerbaijan and other Turkic republics, started her musical career at a considerably early age. The artist, who dazzles everyone with her impressive voice, is getting ready to perform a brilliant concert full of authentic folk music songs from her repertoire.

Event Rules

Detailed information regarding ticket purchase, cancellation, refund, and exchange policies can be found through official ticket sales channels.
For events where student discounts are applicable, student tickets are valid only with a valid student ID and can be purchased from the AKM Box Office. The student ID must be presented to the event staff on the day of the event.
For events cancelled by Atatürk Cultural Center, the refund application period for tickets purchased from the box office is 15 days from the date of cancellation. Within this period, audience members must submit their refund requests at the AKM Box Office.
Age restrictions for our events are specified in the event rules. All attendees are required to have a valid ticket.
For Children’s Art Center workshops, the age group is specified separately. Guests whose ages do not fall within the indicated range will not be permitted to enter the workshop area. Tickets purchased for these workshops are non-refundable and non-exchangeable.
AKM Management reserves the right to deny entry to individuals deemed unsuitable for the event, in which case a refund will be issued.
AKM reserves the right to make changes to its ticket purchase policies.

AKM reserves the right to change the event venue and time.
Guests are required to adhere to the specified seating arrangement. No seat changes are allowed during the event.
After the event starts, no audience member will be allowed into the hall.
The age group for the Children’s Art Centre workshops is specified separately. Guests who do not meet the specified age requirement for the event are not allowed to enter the workshop area. Purchased tickets are non-refundable and non-changeable.
Recording with cameras, photo cameras, mobile phones, etc. is prohibited during the concert. Recording devices will not be allowed in the venues.
You must be ready with your ticket at the event entrance at least 1 hour before the event start time.
AKM can make changes to event venues. The AKM management will prepare a seating plan that provides our audience with the closest seats to their ticket numbers in the new venue. Purchased tickets are non-refundable due to the change of venue.
It is prohibited to enter areas outside the designated spaces in the venues with food or beverages, to consume tobacco and tobacco products, or to use electronic cigarettes.
There is a paid parking lot inside AKM.

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