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Bahri as a genetic scientist is
in the headline of several Turkish national newspapers and on Internet
media:
click
on the logos on the left to check it out8
Bahri and
his band TURKANA on NTV Evening News
NTV-MSNBC makes a news segment about Bahri and his band TURKANA for their
performance during the 1st Chicago Turkish Festival. News included the
interviews of each member of TURKANA and their journey with Turkish Music.
The footage was part of the main evening news broadcasted nationally in
Turkey and was introduced as "Turkish Music finds life in the hands
of American Doctors" referring to the four doctor members of TURKANA.
Bahri on National Public Radio's weekly
program "Live from Java House" with Iowa's blues legend Patrick Hazell
"Iowa blues meets Turkish folk music when blues legend Patrick Hazell and
well-known Turkish singer and composer Bahri Karacay, also a UI research
scientist in pediatrics, perform their unique mix of world music, a result
of three years of collaboration." more8
Bahri's
Live Performance on "Know the Score" (Local NPR
station - KSUI FM 97.1)
"Turkish
folk artist and composer Bahri Karacay was a recent guest
on Know
the Score LIVE! at the University of Iowa Museum of Art (December
6, 2002). Here is his live performance and a conversation with Joan Kjaer
in which Karacay talks about this compelling and intriguing music as well
as his love of Sufi spiritualism." listen8
(The program is broadcast in streaming
audio on the
station's web site.)
Iowa Talks Live from the Java House
http://wsui.uiowa.edu/iowa_talks.htm
Turkish folk music by Bahri. Host: Ben Kieffer. listen8
UI Researcher Devoted to Science and Song
—by Dave Rasdal, Gazette columnist, February 23. 2001
When he was 13 years old, Bahri Karacay could have become a pop music icon in his native land, Turkey. Instead, at the age of 36, he spends his days in a laboratory hoping to find a cure for neuroblastoma, a fatal childhood
disease. Music and science. more8
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