At a concert recorded on 22 November 2004, Gülcan Kaya, accompanied by four exceptional musicians, performs a repertoire of songs collected from across Anatolia: love songs, dance melodies, Zeybek and Alevis chants and more. Kaya was born in 1969 in Doluca, in the East Anatolia region of Erzincan. She was lucky enough to be born in a village where every event was a chance to sing popular songs – or türkü. There, where almost every man played the balama (four-course plucked lute), kaval (end-blown flute) or mey (a kind of oboe), the women did their chores while singing songs that verged on the sacred. Performing on Turkey's national channel TRT in 1993, she became a solo singer on Istanbul radio. She completed her studies at the conservatory in 1996, received her master's degree in 1999 and taught at Haliç University's conservatory for four years, where she founded the Popular Music department. She now presents and produces programmes devoted to popular music on TV and radio.