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    ANKARA - Turkish Daily News

    Today is Tuesday, March 1 2005 12:45 pm GMT+2 updated at 12:00 P.M.

    Famous Rebetika musician Ketencoğlu to perform in Ankara

    Tuesday, March 1, 2005

    ANKARA - Turkish Daily News


    Internationally renowned Rebetika musician Muammer Ketencoğlu will be
    performing at Laterna, a Greek cafe-restaurant in Ankara, on March 2 and 3.

    His accordion and vocal repertoire during the two concerts will include old and
    new tunes from across the Aegean Sea.

    Ketencoğlu received his initial musical training in a school for the blind.
    During his university education at the Bosporus Department of Psychology, he was
    attracted to the folk music of different countries. Although he first focused on
    contemporary Greek music (Laika) and Rebetika, his affinity for other peoples'
    folk music ultimately led him to find alternative courses in Balkan music.

    His first album, Latremmena Akroyalia (Passionate Coasts), featuring old and
    new Greek songs, was released in 1993. He prepared two collections of Rebetika
    songs, Rebetiko I and II, which were produced in 1994 and 1995 respectively.
    Another anthology compiled by Ketencoğlu and produced in 1995 was titled
    Pioneers of Klezmer Music. The album brought together examples of Klezmer music
    based mainly on traditional Eastern European Jewish music.

    In the same year he prepared an anthology, Halklardan Ezgiler (Popular Tunes),
    comprising four albums, each containing folk songs that best represent the
    traditional music of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Central Asian Turkic
    Republics.

    From 1993 to 1997 he organized yearly concerts known as the Seven Colors of
    Earth, each with a new repertoire of folk songs performed by a number of
    musicians.

    Taking part in various groups and individual musicians' works, Muammer
    Ketencoğlu also gave many solo concerts both in Turkey and abroad. Together with
    the native Anatolian Greek singer İvi Dermancı, he shared the stage with the
    great Greek musician Mikis Theodorakis in 1996, first in Livadia and then in
    Athens. He has performed twice, in 1997 and 2000, in the "Peace Concert"
    organized in southern Cyprus.

    Kompania Ketencoğlu, his group performing Rebetiko has given concerts in
    Istanbul, Athens, Saloniki, Tricala, Xanthi, Lesbos and Crete. Ketencoğlu also
    took part in various festivals in Germany, several times in Berlin, Bilefeld,
    Frankfurt and in France, both Paris and Metz. For further information on
    Ketencoğlu's Ankara concerts, contact Laterna Café-Bar, Tunus Cad No. 50
    Kavaklidere.

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