The dervishes look like insensitive to the presence of the public who sometimes forgets he is not folklore but a religious rite. Dervishes dance with repetitive step, arms raised, raised right hand to heaven and left to ground. The hand also is carried by the movement of body and lifting dresses that seem to fly to another world.
When the music stops, the dervishes are grouped in twos or threes and return to the status quo, their spirit and their heads do not seem disturbed … Have they reached the state of trans sought by these rotations?
The five daily prayers are part of the five pillars of Islam.
Listen….and enjoy
Near the city of Kas on the Lycian way (south of Turkey), we listen nice music with the famus buzuki.
Uskudar is a densely populated district and municipality of Istanbul, Turkey
We are glad to discover that Uncle George here also makes people react..
Arta is a nice city in northern Greece, with aN important music university which attracts many students. 
Invited by a music student, we spend the evening with his friends to share a mezze in a tiny tarvene dedicated to music!
Albania is lokated on the Adriatic coast, it was standing alone for long time. The Communist Party banned music and folk songs. Today, Albanians are proud to share their cultural heritage.
We walked to a taverna on the beach near Lezhe and ended the evening in a restaurant offering freshly caught fish from the lagoon … All day with the sound of the accordion!