Anatolia Folk Ensemble, introduces Anatolia People’s Music, Dance and Cultures from Anatolia – TURKEY. The Group is mainly located in Los Angeles. Also the group members are Turkish, Balkan, Middle Eastern… Honestly from all over the world. You can see in this group such a colorful mosaic. Because of this reason, “We are AnatoliaFolk” (AnatoliaFolk.com)
The variety of music, dance, and artists makes for a virtually endless combination of exciting performances. There are the mysterious “Turkish Nights”, sultry and seductive “Arabic Belly Dance Nights” and how about experiencing the adventurous “1001 Nights”? Each of these ensembles are rich with culture and costuming, audience entertainment and participation.
This type of music, today mostly called as “Classical Turkish Music” or “Turkish Artistic Music” prospered, ripened, improved its form/esthetics and gained the identity of an artistic music in parallel with the establishment, growth and strengthening of the Ottoman State. This music gave products on many themes such as religion, love, military and war and each of these formed their respective types, forms and groups. Ottoman Artistic Music was influenced by the music cultures of new countries that joined the empire and it received and gave out elements. However, starting from the early 19th century when the empire started to retrograde and collapse, a gradual loss in depth and loosening is observed in this artistic music as well. While diverse airs and measures were used previously, this understanding was gradually abandoned and it became the entertainment music of the city. “Şarkı” type substituted almost all types in this development that lasted up to now and became more popular as it was spread.