During the concert, within the context of a 2 week Camden Cypriot Festival in 1991, Yeni Turku's founder Derya expressed the wish that 'we' all meet again to sing together on 'The Green Line in Cyprus'.
That wish has not been fulfilled, and twenty years later the division which is ever so much like a 'border' still exists in Cyprus !
I uploaded the clip last night in order to add it to the online playlist for the "Bi-Communal Peace Concert for ONE Cyprus" which is taking place at London's Theatro Technis tomorrow night - and I urge those who wish to support the concept of ONE Cyprus who can come along and support this peace concert by their physical presence, to join us at London's Camden Town.
Technology allowing, the evening's event will also be beamed to 'the world' via a LIVE webcast through the internet, setting a pioneering precedent via http://www.livestream.com/onecyprus (with no dividing hyphen between the One and the Cyprus) - which will hopefully allow friends of ONE Cyprus worldwide to join us also through the internet (starts at 7.30pm London time).
From the description for this clip:
One of Turkey's most popular bands, Yeni Turku, were the Turkish component during three nights of 'Eastern Mediterranean Music' hosted at London's Jazz Cafe during a two weeek Camden Cypriot Festival in 1991.
In this clip they perform their famous rendition of 'Teli Teli Teli', with words spoken in both Turkish and Greek - of a song written by Greek songwriter Manos Loizos which has become a symbol of cross-cultural cooperation and friendship between the people of Turkey and the people of Greece. Being performed during a Cypriot Festival in London in 1991 when the Greek and Turkish Cypriots in Cyprus were not able to cross the so-called 'Green Line' dividing the island into two halves - the closing comments by band leader Derya in which he expresses the wish that 'we' should meet again and perform there, on the Green Line in Cyprus, was a particularly poignant moment during the two week Festival.
That follow-up concert at the Green Line in Cyprus has not taken place as the twentieth year since that London concert approaches, and the 'Green Line' continues to be a barrier and a 'border' dividing the two communities of Cyprus, so this video clip has been uploaded to the web now in order to remind all of 'us' that it has been a very long time that Derya's wish remains unfulfilled.
This Yeni Turku concert was the first of three evenings of 'Eastern Mediterranean Music', the second evening featured the music of Marios Tokas from Cyprus, who had met, and performed together with Cypriot poetess Nese Yasin for the first time during the festival, and the third evening featured Ross Daly and the Vasilis Soukas Band from Greece.
All artists appearing in the Festival had agreed that a few of their tracks could be released by the festival organisers, so these clips from the various events back in 1991 are gradually being uploaded to the web via
http://www.youtube.com/grokked
Longer extracts, and links to video from other events during this two week festival are detailed, among other items, at the VOD facility at archive dot org at::
http://www.archive.org/bookmarks/grokked
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http://home.btconnect.com/theatrotechni ... yprus.html
(Details from the Theatro Technis website)
Bi-Communal Concert for ONE Cyprus
This will be the first ever LIVE internet webcast from Theatro Technis by the Campaign for ONE Cyprus, featuring classical and Cypriot music, reggae and poetry from a range of artists including Andrew Hubbard, Neşe Yaşın, Haji Mike & Dub Caravan, and many others.
Until the concert itself the video player for this event will feature different video clips of relevance to ONE Cyprus.
http://www.livestream.com/onecyprus
We collectively thank all the artists for having agreed to participate on a voluntary, expenses only basis, (and particularly Neşe Yaşın and Haji Mike & Dub Caravan, who have already arrived from Cyprus to be with us for this event) and of course to Andrew Hubbard who is the overall producer of this event, with the support of other members of the committee of:
http://www.campaignforonecyprus.com
Andrew Hubbard - http://www.andrewhubbard.com
Neşe Yaşın - http://facebook.com/Keckulik
Haji Mike - http://www.youtube.com/hajimike
Sunday 31st October 2010, 7.30pm
Buffet Food and bar available
Tickets £10 (£7 Concessions)
