Music Projects

With this interview, we witnessed once again the brotherhood of music and the common language of humanity. Scottish Paul Dwyer, who has been in our country for more than 30 years, travels all over Turkey and sings, plays and sings Anatolian Folk Songs. In addition, Baglama master instrumentalist and singer Çetin Akdeniz accompanied Paul in […]

By this International Music Festival; As UCCN Mission Statement Goals, “Strengthening international cooperation between cities that accept creativity as a strategic factor for their sustainable development” was realized. Since this international festival was open to everyone free of charge and music concerts took place within the festival, the goal of “Improving access to and participation […]

The most beautiful reflection of Kırşehir’s saz, song, composition, poetry and conversation world is Helebis Nights. As Kırşehir Municipality, we strive to keep Helebis Nights alive and pass them on to our future generations.In order to continue this tradition, we invited local artists from Şanlıurfa, another city in our country, which is very strong like […]

Kirsehir transformed the Neşet Ertaş Culture and Art Festival into an international festival to reach the global level and create synergies between the cities in the network. Our commitment was to invite other UCCN cities that have artists to design music-related souvenirs to this festival. That’s why we brought a “çini” master and a silversmith […]

Compiler Emre Dayioglu, who traveled from village to village in Turkey in order to record the instruments and music masters of folk music that has sunk into oblivion, and Petra Nachtmanova, who is interested in Anatolian folk music and the development of this music, especially around the concept of identity in the diaspora have participated […]

With this competition, songwriters and composers were encouraged to produce more qualified works. In this way, the UCCN Mission Statement aims to “strengthen the creation, production, distribution and dissemination of cultural activities, goods and services”, “to develop centers of creativity and innovation and expand opportunities for creatives and professionals in the cultural sector” and “particularly […]

We invite you to the “UNESCO Music City Kırşehir International Music Conference” hosted by Kırşehir Municipality, jointly organized with the cooperation of Kirsehir Ahi Evran University, and which will be held face-to-face and online at the same time in Kirsehir on May 17th-18th, 2022. (The participation of our guests and speakers abroad to the conference […]