CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS
Neighborhood Concert: Hüsnü Şenlendirici and the Gypsy All-Stars

Drom
Thursday, December 6th, 2007 at 8:00 PM

Hüsnü Şenlendirici and the Gypsy All-Stars

Neighborhood Concerts are funded in part by the New York City Council and Department of Cultural Affairs.

Additional support is provided by The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation.


Programs of The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall are generously supported by the City of New York: Office of the Mayor, the Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York City Council; and by the New York State Council on the Arts.

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Drom
85 Ave A (Betw. 5th and 6th)
New York, NY 10009
212-777-1157

Hüsnü Şenlendirici and the Gypsy All-Stars
Hüsnü Şenlendirici was born in Bergama, a small town in Turkey’s Aegean region. He comes from a family deeply rooted in musical traditions and was playing the clarinet by the time he was five. During his four years at the Turkish Music State Conservatory at Istanbul Technical University, Şenlendirici began playing with the famous Magnetic Band, a group put together by the master percussionist Okay Temiz, appearing in hundreds of festivals and becoming a musical ambassador of his country. He recorded and toured with the internationally know band Embrio and performed in festivals abroad with his father’s sextet, Laco. Şenlendirici formed his current band, Laco Tayfa, and collaborated with the American ensemble Brooklyn Funk Essentials for the critically acclaimed album In the Buzbag. In an effort to bring Turkish music to a wider audience, Hüsnü Şenlendirici founded the quintet Hüsnü Şenlendirici and Friends. He has since performed in a number of concerts with both groups, both within and outside of Turkey, including EXPO-2001 in Germany, supported by the Turkish Ministry of Tourism, a performance in New York’s Central Park during the 2002 Mayfest festival, and during the Istabul Jazz Festival in July 2002, with his 35-member Laco Tayfa Big Band.