The Bostancı Show Center () is a convention center located on the Mehmet Şevki Paşa Road in

Bostancı Bostancı () is a neighborhood in the municipality and district of Kadıköy, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Description Bostancı is on the Anatolian side of Istanbul, on the shore of the Sea of Marmara. As the easternmost neighborhood of the Kadı ...

Kadıköy Kadıköy () is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district on the Asian side of Istanbul Province, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 25 km2, and its population is 467,919 (2023). It is a large and populous area in the Asian si ...

, opened in 1991. It hosts many events and concerts.

History

The first series of events taking place at the Bostancı Show Center following its opening on 23 April 1991 were a number of concerts between 25-28 April 1991 by

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, who was accompanied by artists such as

Sertab Erener Sertab Erener (born 4 December 1964) is a Turkish singer, songwriter and composer. With her coloratura soprano voice, she started working as a backing vocalist for Sezen Aksu, and with Aksu's help she released her first studio album in the 1990s ...

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, Orhan Topçuoğlu, Cengiz Teoman and Aykut Gürel.

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performed for the first time in a song contest organized by

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on 25 June 1995 at the Bostancı Show Center. Two of

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members, vocalist

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and guitarist

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, gave their first Istanbul concerts on 5-6 March 1998 at the Bostancı Show Center. After suffering from brain hemorrhage,

Ebru Gündeş Ebru Gündeş (, born 12 October 1974) is a Turkish pop-folk and arabesque singer, actress, and television personality. Career Ebru Gündeş sings the kind of desperately tragic Arabesque love songs that are the core of Turkish pop music. H ...

gave her first concert at the Bostancı Show Center on 11 March 2000, and donated its proceeds to the Haydarpaşa Numune Training and Research Foundation Hospital. The concert performed by Duman rock band at the Bostancı Show Center on 4 October 2003 was released as a DVD by Murat Akad. Şebnem Ferah's concert with Orhan Şallıel's orchestra titled the Istanbul Symphonic Project took place on 10 March 2007 at the Bostancı Show Center and was later released on DVD. Folk poet and musician

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announced his concert at the Bostancı Show Center with

Nuray Hafiftaş Nuray Hafiftaş (2 November 1964 – 14 February 2018) was a Turkish folk musician, composer, folk poet, lyricist, music director, and bağlama virtuoso of Karapapakh ancestry and Azerbaijan Turkish origin. Early years Soon after her bir ...

on 14 November 2009 as the last concert of his 65-year artistic career, though he later changed this decision as a result of a huge number of requests by fans. Artist Kamil Sönmez celebrated his 45th year of career on 15 November 2012 with an event organized at the Bostancı Show Center.

References

{{reflist Buildings and structures completed in 1991 Music venues in Istanbul