Turkish military music being performed by Turkish Artists, at the Turkish Fest 2012 that was held at the City select mall in Saket, New Delhi on the 24th and the 25th of March 2012.

Live Turkish Music Performances: A variety of Turkish music groups will be performing on stage throughout the festival. Music will feature contemporary, folk, traditional and popular songs by Indian, international and local performers.

Indialogue Foundation (along with Select City Walk, Turkish Airlines and the Embassy of Turkey in India) presented in New Delhi the most amazing Turkish Fest in India: Turkish Fest 2012 New Delhi.

The Festival was held on Saturday March 24, 2012 and Sunday March 25, 2012 in the heart of New Delhi at Select City Walk Mall, Saket.

Activities at The New Delhi, Turkish Fest 2012:

• Live Turkish Music Performances: A variety of Turkish music groups will be performing on stage throughout the festival. Music will feature contemporary, folk, traditional and popular songs by Indian, international and local performers.

• Turkish Folk Dances: Professional and children Folk dance groups will be show cased performing dances from different regions of Turkey. Music and costumes are the essential parts of the traditional dances. During performances music, instruments and patterns of the region are preserved. Music is performed with traditional folk instruments.

• Ebru, Water Marbling Demonstrations: Marbling is a method of making patterned paper by transferring colour from the surface of a liquid to paper. Marbling is the art of printing multi-coloured swirled or stone-like patterns on paper or fabric. The patterns are formed by first floating the colors on the surface of a liquid, and then laying the paper or fabric onto the colors to absorb them. The Turkish art of Ebru which is known to be practiced in Istanbul for more than five hundred years and known as "Turkish paper" for centuries in the western world certainly has a tradition which is passed from generation to generation by a master and apprentice relationship.

• Calligraphic Demonstrations: Turkish Calligraphy, basically, is the writing of Latin letters applied within


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