Turkish Music Concert in Central Park
Summerstage in Central Park
The countdown has started for this weekend’s Turkish music concert at Central Park Summerstage. The concert, which the Turkish American community has been looking forward to after last year’s successful first concert, will start at 3:00 pm on Saturday, July 3rd and will feature some famous singers and bands from Turkey, including Kenan Dogulu, Duman, Ilhan Ersahin and Sukriye Tutkun. Last year’s concert was a huge success with close to 7,000 Turkish music fans and most people sang with Mazhar Fuat Ozkan for hours despite the pouring rain.
Istanbulive II, the official name of this year’s concert organization, presented by Serdar Ilhan and Mehmet Dede, is intended to bring the sounds and colors of Istanbul, the 2010 European Capital of Culture, and Turkey to New York. Please check out the below given website for more information on this Turkish cultural event:
29th Annual NYC Turkish Day Parade: No Parade in 2010
New York Turkish Day Parade
This year’s Turkish Day Parade will be held only as a festival in Manhattan’s Dag Hammarskjold Park on Sunday, May 23. Different than every other year, there will be no parade this year. The festivities in Dag Hammarskjold Park will start at 12:00 noon on Sunday and several prominent singers from Turkey will take stage during the festivities. Among the special guests from Turkey, there will be the Turkish national soccer team, Turkish and Azerbaijani folk dance troupes, pop singer Kenan Dogulu and the Ottoman military band (Mehter Takimi).
Turkish Day Parade usually takes place on the third or the fourth Saturday of every May, however, it was rescheduled to Sunday this year, as the Turkish national soccer team was scheduled to play against the Czech Republic team on Saturday, May 22nd. The parade part was then canceled, as Sunday, May 23 is the designated day for the Israeli parade, and it was instead planned as a full day festival in the Dag Hammarskjold Park in Manhattan. The city doesn’t allow more than one parade on the same day in Manhattan for security reasons.