Istanbul Travel Blog

The annual music event, the Rock’n Coke Festival is to take place on 16th and 17th of July, as always at the Hezarfen Airport. This year it will be the 7th time that Rock’N Coke Festival will take place. There will be many famous national and international musicians taking place. The tickets...

May is like the most beautiful festival month of the year… There are so many things happening this month. I feel like I have only been blabbing about where you should be going and giving out directions “do this, that and this again”. :) Joke aside, we have been having a busy week for...

If you were around Taksim yesterday in the evening, you may have seen what I saw and wondered, what the, is that? There was a tram full of musicians playing typical belly-dancing music (sometimes referred to as Roman music), while the tram ran up and down the Istiklal. When I saw the band, they were...

I have been so far to three concerts from the Festival -the details of which you may find under the events on the live NileGuide site. Two of them were at the Hagia Eirene Church inside the Topkapi Palace grounds: Radu Lupu with the Istanbul State Orchestra and the trio of Gulsin Onay, Antonio Meneses...

Three clubs lining up along the shore of Bosphorus have been closed down since Wednesday. If you have meant to go and been turned down, that was why. The reason of the state is that the clubs have been accused of playing the music “too loud” after 1 AM over the last weekend -until 5 AM in...

As I had already written about what Chill Out Fest was all about and its reason of existence, I will skip those bits and go right into my observations on the festival itself… 1. Next time I should take my yoga mat, towels and umbrella with me. When you arrive late, there are no `comfortable` spots...

This weekend is hot with festivals each and every day. Koç University Festival is tonight on the University campus. There are some very special star musicians and soloists attending: MFÖ (Turkish band), Duman (a younger Turkish band), Ajda Pekkan (an iconic singer) and more. The Festival starts early...