Kardes Turkuler was final in a position to give a live performance in Harbiye Cemil Topuzlu Open Air Theater in 2014. They returned to Harbiye after eight years. They missed this scene, and the viewers missed seeing them on this stage. In Harbiye, the place there have been only a few empty seats, plenty of longing was fulfilled the day gone by, troubles have been shared, and the songs of brotherhood and peace have been sung in unison.
One can’t assist however assume; What has modified in all these years? It’s sure that the Kardes music group has not modified, and the ensemble, consisting of the identical names, was saying the identical phrases once they have been based 30 years in the past and once they have been giving a live performance in Harbiye eight years in the past. What has modified, then, have to be the trouble to maintain the ability within the fingers of the federal government, which has misplaced energy not solely at this time but additionally in recent times, by means of suppression, silence, and censorship… It might be laborious to assume that if the administration of the Istanbul metropolitan municipality had remained within the fingers of the AKP, Kardes Türküler would nonetheless not have the ability to give a live performance in Harbiye. not laborious. In truth, that is true for a lot of the names that took the stage in Harbiye this yr.
MINERS REMEMBERED
The live performance began by commemorating the miners who misplaced their lives in Bartın. The next phrases of Âşık Mahzuni Şerif’s “Miners” music have been mirrored on the screens: “Love is gorgeous on earth / Greetings from the deep / Coal goes out of this world / Smoke comes from the miners / Der Mahzuni’s properly is slender / It’s simple for us / He has an honorable sweat / Miners know that ”. Then, Feryal Öney sang Mahzuni’s people music “Çeşmi Siyahım” along with her trembling voice.
In the course of the live performance consisting of two components, Feryal Öney, Fehmiye Çelik, Vedat Yıldırım and Selda Öztürk sang people songs in lots of languages with their giant staff of musicians, the message of virtually all of them was the identical: brotherhood, peace and hope. There was plenty of dialog with the viewers, the longing was relieved. When the company of the live performance, Apolas Lermi and Onur Şentürk, got here out, it was time for the horon. The viewers performed horon between the seats, on the steps, in each house they may discover. The stage performances of the opposite company Barefoot Firm and Defjen groups have been additionally appreciated. With the passion that continued with Neşet Ertaş’s music “I am Burning”, everybody was standing now and nobody sat down till the top of the live performance. In consequence, Kardeş Türgülü introduced again one of many best wants, hope, to Harbiye.