10-12 April 2025, Budapest | House of Music Hungary | Akvárium Klub
The magic of the alevi is the magic of stories: songs evoking the dreams, loves, daily toil and devotion of the peoples of Anatolia and Mesopotamia. Ali Doğan Gönültaş commands this magic with his tembur and guitar by his side, his stage charisma at the ready, and an ethnographer’s humble attention towards his material. Praised as a ‘real star’ of the Kurdish world scene, he tells the tales of a turbulent region, making his audience part of the story.