The Turkish band Kardeş Türküler, Grammy award-winning musician Arto Tunçboyacıyan and musicians Ara Dinkjian and Feryal Akkaya will give a concert in New York to benefit Van earthquake victims.
The concert was organized by the Moon and Stars Project and the American Turkish Society. All ticket proceeds from the Nov. 13 performance at the Kaufman Center’s Merkin Concert Hall will be given to Van’s earthquake survivors.
Kardeş Türküler will perform in Turkish, Arabic, Kurdish, Armenian and Azerbaijani with the accompaniment of Akkaya as a soloist and Dinkjian on the oud.
Tunçboyacıyan will be on percussion and will sing for the audience. Tunçboyacıyan appeared on more than 200 records in Europe before arriving in the United States, where he went to work with numerous jazz legends, including Chet Baker, Al Di Meola, and Joe Zawinul, while also collaborating on a semi-regular basis with Paul Winter and the Earth Band.
Tunçboyacıyan has also worked with Turkish singer Sezen Aksu.
