Istanbul to host famous bands and musicians in July
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Istanbul city will host many famous bands and musicians in July. Those names include Alanis Morisette, Metallica, Judas Priest, Def Leppard and Massive Attack.
On July 5th, Alanis Morissette will take stage at Parkorman within the scope of Masstival 2008 music festival. Grammy-award winner Morissette's "Little Jagged Pill" album sold over 33 million across the world. She is known with her songs "Hand In My Pocket", "You Learn", "Ironic", "Head Over Feet", "Forgiven", "Uninvited" and "Thank You".   Â
On July 6th, Parkorman will host 70's rock band Whitesnake. British rock band Def Leppard will also take stage on July 6th at Parkorman within the scope of Masstival 2008. Def Leppard was founded in 1977.
On July 13th, Parkorman will host a trip-hop band Massive Attack. The band won awards with its albums "Blue Lines", "Protection" and "Mezzanine". Its song "Unfinished Symphony" took place in top ten best songs ever in Britain. Massive Attack gave a concert in Turkey in 2003.
Judas Priest, a heavy-metal band, will give its first Istanbul concert at Turkcell Kurucesme Arena on July 13th.
Metallica, which sold 120 million albums across the world so far and is known as the most popular cult band of the world, will give its third stadium concert in Turkey at Ali Sami Yen Stadium on July 27th. Metallica gave concerts in Istanbul in 1993 and 1999.
On July 23rd, Cemil Topuzlu Open-air Hall will host Greek musician Haris Alexiou.
Four-time Grammy award winner Lenny Kravitz, who sold 20 million albums, will take stage at Turkcell Kurucesme Arena on July 30th.
Within the scope of the 15th International Istanbul Jazz Festival, Herbie Hancock will take stage at Cemil Topuzlu Open-air Hall on July 2nd and at Cemal Resit Rey Concert Hall on July 3rd. Caetano Veloso will give a concert at Cemil Topuzlu Open-air Hall on July 10th.
Marcus Miller and Tower of Power band will take stage on July 3rd.
Nnenna Freelon and Ivan Lins will perform at Archeology Museum's garden on July 8th.
Omara Portuondo, last member of Buena Vista Social Club, will take stage at Sepetciler Kasri on July 9th. Rufus Wainwright will perform at Hagia Irene Museum on July 8th.