Turkey Now! Festival 2012

Family concert featuring Esra Dalfidan and the Kennemer Youth Orchestra

In Darbuka Dum! by the Amsterdam-based Turkish composer Selim Dogru, singer Esra takes you on a musical journey through Turkey. Esra is on holiday in Antalya and is woken one night by a strange sound. Is it real or just a dream? She gets out of bed and follows the sound. She searches for hours. Just before sunrise she finds the source of the sound in the middle of the forest. It comes from a man with long black hair who is playing a magic drum: the darbuka. As soon as the man sees her he stops playing. Esra was totally mesmerised by his playing. She couldn't move, talk or even think. Suddenly the man disappears. Since that night Esra has been searching for the man. To listen to his music. She asks everyone and searches everywhere, including different parts of Turkey and Istanbul, but cannot find him. She doesn't give up and begins a journey: to China, Africa and Australia and eventually to a concert hall in the Netherlands.

In the weeks prior to the show, the Sound Garden  of the Muziekgebouw aan het IJ will organise darbuka workshops for primary school students, in collaboration with performers from the show.