Medrano Circus

Worldwide Famous Medrano Circus is in Istanbul celebrating its 137th year.
The history of the Medrano was formed by the Casartelli family in 1873. It started to conquer new countries; Spain, Turkey, Bulgaria and Israel. The year 1972 is the year of
development for the Casartelli family as they made a debut with the name of “Medrano Circus”, with a large zoo containing horses, elephants, zebras, giraffes, camels, and a
white rhino. Since then, the Medrano Circus has been renown for the large number of spectators and the prestigious prizes won due to animal training.

Date : 04.11.2010 20:30:00
Venue : İçerenköy Carrefour AVM Yanı

Ticket Prices:

Category 1: 33,50 TL
Category 2: 28,00 TL
Category 3: 22,50 TL
Category 4: 17,00 TL

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Isabelle Moretti

The first edition of International Istanbul Harp Encounter is coming to life in the frame work of  “In Tune with the Harp!” between December 1-7, 2010, bringing together  five world-renowned harpists representing  five harp traditions. Five harpists, five different harps and five  musical traditions come together in the largest harp event organized in Turkey so far. arpilehertelden.com

Isabelle Moretti is one of the most appealing figures both among harpists and in the musical world today. Bright, enthusiastic and with real temperament, she embues her instrument with inimitable style, generosity, sincerity and nobility. Crowned with prizes at international harp competitions in Geneva, Munich and Israel, Isabelle Moretti is invited to the greatest concert halls all over the world. She appears with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (most recently under the baton of Sir Neville Marriner), the National Orchestra of Lyon, the Paris Orchestral Ensemble, the German Chamber Orchestra Bremen, the Israel Chamber Orchestra, the Orquestra de Córdoba, the Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

Isabelle Moretti’s solo repertoire extends from the music of the eighteenth century and the first sonatas for pedal harp, to the most complex contemporary world premieres, which she frequently programmes in her recitals. She especially loves chamber music and performs it regularly with her friends Philippe Bernold, Henri Demarquette, Gérard Caussé, François Leleux, Magali Mosnier, and with the Parisii, Psophos and Ebène string quartets. Many works have been dedicated to Isabelle. In 2006 she gave the world premieres of Philippe Hersant’s Harp Concerto at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, as well as Michèle Reverdy’s Harp Concerto with the l’Orchestre National de Lille. Isabelle Moretti’s discography, as rich as it is varied, has enjoyed great media success: the Victoire de la Musique, Grand Prix de la Nouvelle Académie du Disque, Prix Charles Cros, Choc du Monde de la Musique, Dix de Répertoire, and ‘ffff’ from Télérama.

A renowned teacher, Isabelle Moretti gives masterclasses throughout the world and teaches at the National Superior Conservatory of Paris for Music and Dance (the CNSMD). Since 2008, she is also Visiting Professor at London’s Royal Academy of Music. Isabelle Moretti is a knight of the National Order of Merit.
http://www.isabelle-moretti.com/

She has a masterclass at 6th December, for more information: nho@arpsanatidernegi.com

Date : 05.12.2010 19:30:00
Venue : Notre Dame de Sion Lisesi Konser Salonu
Ticket prices:

Category 1 Full: 56,00 TL, Student: 31,00 TL
Category 2 Full: 34,00 TL, Student: 19,00 TL
Category 3 Full: 12,50 TL, Student: 7,50 TL

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Belinda Carlisle

Belinda Carlisle gained worldwide fame as the lead vocalist of The Go-Go's, who made history as the first all-female music group to write their own songs and play their own instruments to top the Billboard charts. The Go-Go's are considered by some to be the most successful all-female band of all time. Carlisle sold more than seven million
albums, and later went on to a successful solo career that spawned hits such as "Mad About You," "Summer Rain," "I Get Weak," "Leave a Light On" and "Heaven Is a Place on Earth", which topped the charts internationally.

Carlisle's first album, Belinda, was released in 1986. Her second album "Heaven on Earth" was nominated for a Grammy Award. The first release from Heaven on Earth was "Heaven Is a Place on Earth", which topped the single charts, not only in the U.S., but also in the UK and in several other countries. The hits "I Get Weak", "Circle In the Sand", "I Feel Free," also topped the music charts.

Carlisle's follow-up to the success of Heaven on Earth was Runaway Horses, released on October 23, 1989. The album hit the Top 5 in both Australia and the UK, certified double platinum in Australia and platinum in the UK and in Canada.

Date : 06.11.2010 21:30:00
Venue : Refresh The Venue
Ticket Prices

Front Stage: 120,00 TL
General Admission Standing: 69,00 TL
VIP: 180,00 TL

 

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UB40 @ Matine216

British reggae band UB40 is back again to meet their Turkish fans at Matine 216. 

Formed in 1978 in Birmingham, the band has placed more than 50 singles in the UK Singles Chart, and has also achieved considerable international success. One of the world's best-selling music artists, UB40 have sold over 70 million records. Their No. 1 hit singles include "Red Red Wine", "Can't Help Falling in Love" and "I Got You Babe".

The name "UB40" was selected in reference to the document issued to people claiming unemployment benefit 
from the UK government's Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) at the time of the band's formation. The designation UB40 stood for Unemployment Benefit, Form 40. Their first album was titled "Signing Off", as the band were signing off from or closing their claim on the unemployment benefit.

Despite great success in the UK, UB40's popularity in the United States was only established after they 
released Labour of Love, an album of cover songs, in 1983. The album featured the song "Red Red Wine", a cover version of a Neil Diamond song; it stayed on the charts for over a hundred weeks. 

In 2008 it was announced that Ali Campbell would be leaving the group after 30 years. It was originally stated that this was in order for Campbell to concentrate on solo projects.

In April 2008, the BBC reported that Campbell was to be replaced in the band by his brother Duncan Campbell.

Ticket Price: 67 tl
Date : 22.01.2011 23:30:00
Venue : Matine 216 (http://www.matine216.com/ )

 

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Goran Bregovic and The Wedding & The Funeral Band

The legendary name of the Balkan Music is going to meet with his fans in Istanbul after a long break!

Charm Music Presents:
Goran Bregovic, the legendary name of the Balkan music, is going to meet with his fans at Macka Kucukciftlik Park on the evening of 8th of October.

Goran Bregovic and The Wedding & The Funeral Band, whom play all Istanbul concerts sold-out, are inviting their fans to an unforgettable music fest with their magnificent repertoire. He will be on the stage with the songs from his over 21 albums and the cult soundtracks of Emir Kusturica' s "Underground", " Time of the Gypsies ",  “Arizona Dream” movies.

He was born as the son of Serbian mother and Croatian father in 1950 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has drawn a large audience with bringing into the traditional Balkan music, a modern and western interpretation.

In our country, he is also known as a composer of Sezen Aksu' s music album "Düğün ve Cenaze” and they had several concerts together together with Sezen Aksu.

Date : 08.10.2010 21:30:00
Venue : Küçükçiftlik Park
Ticket Prices:

Normal: 78,00 TL
VIP: 165,00 TL

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Tango Feeling - 15 October 2010

Date : 15.10.2010 - 17.10. 2010  21:00:00
Venue : Türker İnanoğlu Maslak Show Center
Ticket Prices:

Category 1: 107,50 TL SOLD OUT
Category 3: 82,00 TL
Category 4: 66,00 TL
Category 5: 56,00 TL
Category2: 97,50 TL

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Giants Live - Turkey 2010

WORLD’S STRONGEST MEN ARE IN ISTANBUL!
Küçükçiftlik Park will welcome the world's strongest men on October 17th for the first time in Turkey.
Giants Live, Official World’s Strongest Man Qualifying Tour is a live, arena-based sport competition – a one-of-a-kind entertainment experience and live demonstration of incredible feats of strength that no ordinary human can do.

Each Giants Live qualifying event will find 12 of the world's greatest strongmen battling for supremacy across six gruelling disciplines including Truck Pull, Log Lift, Refrigerator Carry, The Pillars of Hercules, Car Deadlift and Atlas Stones. A top-three finish gains the competitor championship points and a place at the World's Strongest Man Finals.

Date : 17.10.2010 12:00:00
Venue : Küçükçiftlik Park
Ticket Prices:

Category 1 - VIP: 135,00 TL
Category 2: 84,00 TL
Category 3: 56,00 TL

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Efes Pilsen Blues Festival

Turkey's only Blues festival the "Efes Pilsen Blues Festival" is gearing up for its 21st year. The program's talented lineup and extensive program schedule, set to tour 20 cities in Turkey including Denizli, Antalya, Konya, Kayseri, Mersin, Adana, Antakya, KKTC, Gaziantep, Diyarbakır, Erzurum, Trabzon, Ankara, Edirne, Çanakkale, Balıkesir, İzmir, Eskişehir, Bursa and İstanbul.

Kenny Neal
Kenny Neal is an acclaimed multi-instrumentalist and is widely renowned as a modern swamp-blues master. His new release, Hooked On Your Love, follows the triumph of his multi-award winning 2008 comeback album, Let Life Flow.

Mitch Woods
American modern day boogie-woogie, jump blues and jazz pianist and singer Mitch Woods has been touring with his band the Rocket 88s since  the 18980's. He released 9 albums and in 2007 he was nominated for the Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year Award at the Blues Awards in Tennessee, presented by the Blues Foundation.

Samuel James
Samuel James is a performer of stunningly singular talent. A master of fingerstyle, slide, banjo, harmonica, and piano, this phenom is not yet out of his twenties. With musical influences ranging from Skip James and Sonny Terry to Gus Cannon and Charley Patton, such understanding of pre-war blues is rarely embodied in the music of one person.

His songwriting is absolutely unparalleled in contemporary blues. His writing is descended from the long forgotten art of the songster.

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Chicago

A nightclub dancer... a smooth talking lawyer... and a cell block of sin. It would be a crime to miss it.
The musical Chicago is based on a play of the same name by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins, who was assigned to cover the 1924 trials of murderesses Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner for the Chicago Tribune.

Annan, the model for the character of Roxie Hart, was 23 when she was accused of the April 3, 1924, murder of Harry Kalstedt. The Tribune reported that Annan played the foxtrot record "Hula Lou" over and over for two hours before calling her husband to say she killed a man who "tried to make love to her". She was found "not guilty" on May 25, 1924. Velma is based on Gaertner, who was a cabaret singer. The body of Walter Law was discovered slumped over the steering wheel of Gaertner's abandoned car on March 12, 1924. Two police officers testified that they had seen a woman getting into the car and shortly thereafter heard gunshots. A bottle of gin and an automatic pistol were found on the floor of the car.
Gaertner was acquitted on June 6, 1924.
Watkins' sensational columns documenting these trials proved so popular that she decided to write a play based on them. The show received both popular and critical acclaim and even made it to Broadway in 1926, running for 172 performances. Cecil B. DeMille produced a silent film version, Chicago (1927),starring former Mack Sennett bathing beauty Phyllis Haver as Roxie Hart. It was later remade as Roxie Hart (1942) starring Ginger Rogers, but in this version, Roxie was accused of murder without having really committed it.

In the 1960s, Gwen Verdon read the play and asked her husband, Bob Fosse, about the possibility of creating a musical adaptation. Fosse approached playwright Watkins numerous times to buy the rights, but she repeatedly declined. In her later years, Watkins had become a born-again Christian and believed her play glamorized a scandalous way of living. However upon her death in 1969, her estate sold the rights to producer Richard Fryer, Verdon and Fosse. John Kander and Fred Ebb began work on the musical score, modeling each number on a traditional vaudeville number or a vaudeville performer. This format made explicit the show's comparison between "justice", "show-business", and contemporary society. Ebb and Fosse penned the book of the musical, with Fosse also directing and doing the choreography.

Chicago opened on June 3, 1975 at the 46th Street Theatre, and ran for a total of 936 performances.

Chicago was filmed in 2002, directed and choreographed by Rob Marshall, and adapted by screenwriter Bill Condon, staring Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée Zellweger, and Richard Gere, also featuring Queen Latifah, John C. Reilly and Lucy Liu.

CHICAGO has been honored with 6 Tony Awards, 2 Olivier Awards, a Grammy and thousands of standing ovations.

Date : 01.10.2010- 10.10.2010 21:00:00
Venue : Türker İnanoğlu Maslak Show Center
Ticket prices:

Category 1: 400,00 TL (VIP)
Category 2: 250,00 TL

Category 3: 225,00 TL
Category 4: 180,00 TL
Category 5: 140,00 TL
Category 6: 100,00 TL
Category 7: 80,00 TL

 

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Disney on Ice – Disneyland Adventure

 

“Disney on Ice – Disneyland Adventure,” one of the most popular family shows on Earth shall begin its 2010-2011 European tour in İstanbul on September 29th. This very special show on ice shall also meet with the audiences in Ankara and İzmir, and features a colorful adventure of Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, and friends in Disneyland. Characters from Disney’s The Incredibles, Alice, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story shall also take part in the show, where the audience shall participate in the Disneyland experience.
Plot of Disney On Ice –Disneyland Adventure

Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy and Pluto decide that it’s time for a change. They plan to go to Disneyland instead of welcoming visitors. Unfortunately, the “The Evil Maleficent” has other plans. She crushes innocent Minnie’s finger in a revolving wheel, making all the Magic Kingdom sleep for a hundred years together with Donald, who hasn’t a clue about anything! Mickey, Pluto, and Goofy discover what’s going on with the help of the audience, and understand that they need help in order to save Minnie and Donald. They then receive support from the family of super heroes; the Incredibles. So all our heroes boldly seek the evil witch, and again with the help of the audience, wake Minnie and Donald to repeat the spell to found the magical kingdom. Disneyland once more becomes the happiest place on Earth!
Date: 29 September - 10 October 2010
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