Results for "She’koyokh Klezmer Ensemble"

Cigdem Aslan Touches History with "Mortissa"

October 16, 2013

A century or more ago, in cities like Smyra, Thessaloniki, and Istanbul, Greeks and Turks lived peacefully side by side during the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. People laughed and loved and sang together. In the bars and the hash houses, they played the music that was the root of what came to be called ...