Have yourself a good musical apetite in the 1st International Istanbul Choir Days. The festival is going to take place in various venues and halls in Istanbul between the 5th and 8th of November 2008 hosting choirs from different countries such as Spain, Hungary, Italy, Turkey and many more. So if you are in Istanbul in this period, you can take this festival to your daily program… Click here to see the festival’s programme and here for more information!
Finally after couple of days, the sun showed its lovely face from behind the clouds today. Organizing most of our works in the morning, we decided to take walk around Galata, where almost half of our apartments are located, and have lunch. Enjoying the lovely weather, people and the sight (beleive us, you barely find time to enjoy this city between everyday work, therefore it was more than valuable to us to have the chance), we ran into our everyday route down to Galata Tower. Luckily, it didn’t take us long to spot this lovely, cosy restaurant which we already spotted weeks ago but didn’t find a chance to give it a try.
“Damat Paçası” is one of those little, cosy restaurants with a staff who welcomes you with a hearty smile, offering a variety of delicious food made by local women and a “not so expensive” price-list. Click to read the rest of this article
We have just come across a video about Istanbul by Veysel Gençten. You will definitely like it! http://www.ersineser.us/
20.October ve 3.November.2007 Saturday at 23.00
After 17.November each Saturday at 23.00′da…
Close-Up address: Istiklal Caddesi İmam Adnan sok. No:8 Kat:2 Beyoğlu ( Upper floor of Yeşilçam Sineması)
Close-Up tel: (212) 252 16 12
Göçebe Şarkılar (The Nomadic Songs) take their listeners on a trip into the sounds of the people who spend their lives migrating from landscape to landscape, not always by choice. Their songs reflect the lives, loves, joys and sorrows of those cultures.
Göçebe Şarkılar draw on a repertoire of songs from Romania, Hungary, old Yugoslavian gipsy lands, Macedonia, Albania , Bosnia-Herzegovina, Greece, Andalucía, Mexico, Italy, Anatolia, Armenia and Thrace as well as from Sephardic culture. They interpret these pieces in their authentic languages with the accompaniment of guitar, violins, accordion, and percussion; thriving to present the listener with a dynamic and different aural experience at each concert.
Let’s embark together on this journey of song, dance, happiness and melancholy…
GÖÇEBE ŞARKILAR:
Ahmet Tirgil - violin
Ayça Damgacı - vocal
Hakan Milli - vocal İnci Sunar - guitar
Levent Güzel - percussion Özge Metin - violin, accordeon
Some of our guests who stay in our gay friendly Istanbul apartments sometimes ask me for a recommendation for a good gay bar in Taksim area. I don’t know which one is recently better than the other but I know that it is always very fun and lively when my friend, Dj Can plays in a venue…Nowadays he is a resident Dj at Barbahce on every Saturday night and Barbahce is very close to some of our apartments in Cihangir area.
For more info:
Dj Can http://www.djcan-online.com/
Barbahce http://www.barbahce.com/
Metehan
