ATHENA at DUNYA Festival
The Turkish Ska/Punk band Athena will be playing at the Dunya Festival in Rotterdam on the 27th of May as part of the 400 Years TR-NL celebrations.
More info on www.dunya.nl
KARDES TÜRKÜLER at Amsterdam Roots Festival
Kardes Türküler perform the folk songs of Anatolia, Thrace and Mesopotamia in their original languages, and paying special attention their own cultural contexts, the group expresses the hope of living together in fraternity in a region with many different cultures.
The group will be performing at the Roots Open Air part of the Amsterdam Roots Festival on the 8th of July. This concert if part of the 400 Year TR-NL Celebrations.
Available for 2013 bookings MERCAN DEDE ISTANBUL QUARTET

After the great success of Mercan Dede & Secret Tribe, Mercan Dede presents his new project “Istanbul Quartet” where he gets together three fantastic young traditional Turkish musicians.
Mercan Dede “Istanbul” Quartet; Dede’s most recent and purest project with giving acoustic performances to great importance and bring east to west, traditional and modern, past and future together through by music and visual art, like Istanbul itself. Continue reading…
Available for bookings: TRANSGLOBAL UNDERGROUND
Trans-Global Underground’s last 2 albums, ‘Impossible Broadcasting’ and the more recent, award winning ‘Moonshout’ were notable for the London based collectives fluid line-up and numerous collaborations across Europe, Asia and Africa. ‘The Stone Turntable’ finds them back in London…somewhere in the Wapping area to be exact, where most of it was recorded…and the main feature of the album is the live band that has come to be recognised as one of the UKs best live acts.
BUDZILLUS Booking for Turkey
Insanity has a name and chaos has a soundtrack – BuZillus! When the current members of BudZillus got together back in May of 2008, it was obvious that something special was in the making. In a short time, they went from playing in the streets to becoming one of Berlin’s most infamous live acts.