Suna Alan
Suna Alan is a Kurdish/Alevi singer based in London. She was born in the mountainous province of Çewlik (Bingol), an ancient Kurdish and Armenian province in Northern Kurdistan (officially Turkey). Her family moved to Smyrna (Izmir) in her early childhood which meant that much of her formative years were spent surrounded by traditional Kurdish dengbêj (*bard) music and Kurdish-Alevi laments within a rich cosmopolitan cultural environment. Since Ottoman times, Smyrna (Izmir) has indeed embraced a myriad of ethnic and religious communities people such as Kurdish, Greek, Albanian, Circassian, Armenian, Sephardic, Christian, Alevi. This led Suna to incorporate stories from many other ethnic and religious identities in her music. Her musical journey led to London where she has been working with musicians from various nationalities. Although her main focus remains Kurdish folk songs from the four regions of Kurdistan namely Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey, her repertoire also includes Armenian, Greek, Sephardic and Turkish songs.
www.sunaalan.net

Anatolian Collective
“Anatolian Collective is an ensemble which is founded in 2017 by a group of musicians who have been maintaining their artistic life in London, to play world music, perform various regional folk songs of Anatolia with their own arrangements, collaborate with musicians of different countries who are interested in ethnic music and carry these works through different regions of the world.

Ensemble particularly aims bringing together with the audience; the rhythm differences, chord variations, playing techniques and diverse tones of grass roots tunes which belong to different nations and under the threat of oblivion in Turkey.

Ensemble which took stage many times so far with an insight of bringing together the diversity of Anatolia’s folk songs which hosted various cultures for thousands of years with the unique tones of the world music, shared the stage with diverse ethnic bands as well..”
anatoliancollective.com