Brenna MacCrimmon

Macedonian & Turkish Singing

Brenna MacCrimmon has been learning and performing the music of Turkey and the Balkans since 1984. She has worked with Turkish and Macedonian groups in Toronto over the years and has made frequent trips to Turkey and environs to absorb the music and culture. The longest such trip lasted from 1995 to 2000. Brenna has taught Turkish and Macedonian singing at both our Mendocino and Iroquois Springs Balkan Music & Dance Workshops, Balkanalia!, as well as numerous other workshops for theater groups and interested parties in various places around North America, Europe and Japan. Her recordings include Karşilama (with Turkish Rom clarinetist Selim Sesler), Ajde Mori (with Muammer Ketencoğlu and friends) and Kulak Misafiri (with numerous members of the extended North American Balkan music community) and Nazar with Toronto based vocal ensemble Turkwaz. As a guest musician she has recorded and performed with Baba Zula and djShantel and she was featured in Crossing the Bridge, Fatih Akın’s 2005 documentary about the Istanbul music scene. More recently she has recorded with [dunkelbunt] and Amsterdam Klezmer Band. Based in Toronto, she continues to perform with Turkwaz as well as the occasional show with Meltemi (Greek and Turkish).

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