{"id":29388,"date":"2010-12-20T11:16:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T09:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=29388"},"modified":"2014-01-06T00:37:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T22:37:51","slug":"black-sea-melodies-from-trabzon-and-thessaloniki-to-istanbul-kemence-concert-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/12\/20\/black-sea-melodies-from-trabzon-and-thessaloniki-to-istanbul-kemence-concert-istanbul\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBlack Sea Melodies from Trabzon and Thessaloniki to \u0130stanbul\u201d Kemen\u00e7e Concert, Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Thirty year-old Adem Ekiz, from Trabzon\u2019s Be\u015fk\u00f6yl\u00fc neighborhood is currently one of the most popular kemen\u00e7e players in Thessaloniki. Greek families invite him to their homes and parties and sing along with him during the Greek folk songs that Ekiz writes and composes himself.<\/p>\n

Ekiz helped organize a unique event on Wednesday. He and his friend Lermi, who is also from Trabzon, along with Nikos Mihailidis, 34; Filipos Kesapidis, 38; and Mihalis Siopis, 25, who all grew up in the same neighborhood in Thessaloniki, came together\u00a0to \u0130stanbul to perform at a concert.\u00a0 It was\u00a0called \u201cBlack Sea Melodies from Trabzon and Thessaloniki to \u0130stanbul\u201d.\u00a0 They played the kemen\u00e7e.<\/p>\n

Ekiz has been friends with Thessaloniki kemen\u00e7e players for 10 years. Mihailidis\u2019 family lives in Thessaloniki but his relatives lives in Bafra and Sivas. He has been playing the kemen\u00e7e since he was a young boy. He came to Turkey for the first time in 1994.\u00a0 He met Greeks who live in different Turkish cities, played the kemen\u00e7e for them, and listened to them play the kemen\u00e7e. He studied political science in Athens and has been doing his doctorate in cultural anthropology at Princeton University since 2006. The topic of his dissertation is \u201cMusic and the Sense of\u00a0 Belonging.\u201d He is researching how music unites people. He completed his field work in Trabzon in September. He speaks Turkish very well.\u00a0 He took classes at T\u00d6MER while he completing his master\u2019s degree in political science at Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i University in 2000. He can speak Turkish so well that he gives private Turkish lessons to students and businessmen in Greece.<\/p>\n

Most people who are interested in the kemen\u00e7e know Mihailidis very well. His album \u201cHoron ke Tra\u011fodiya\u201d was released in 2000. It is interesting to know that he was the first artist to release an album of Greek folk songs in Turkey.\u00a0 However, the album was not very popular. Mihailidis has released two solo albums in Greece and Canada. He released a Greek folk song album with Kesapidis in<\/p>\n

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via \u201cBlack Sea Melodies from Trabzon and Thessaloniki to \u0130stanbul\u201d Kemen\u00e7e Concert, Istanbul | Greek Reporter Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thirty year-old Adem Ekiz, from Trabzon\u2019s Be\u015fk\u00f6yl\u00fc neighborhood is currently one of the most popular kemen\u00e7e players in Thessaloniki. Greek families invite him to their homes and parties and sing along with him during the Greek folk songs that Ekiz writes and composes himself. Ekiz helped organize a unique event on Wednesday. He and his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":29390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2939],"tags":[5422,5423],"class_list":["post-29388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultureart","tag-kemence","tag-kemenche"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}