Jack White plays Bonus Parkorman on Sunday 23 August 2026 as day two of Babylon Soundgarden. This is the garage-rock and blues night of the weekend, not a seated theatre date, and it is not a two-hour headline show with a clean exit. It is a festival day on a hillside in Maslak.
Seven Nation Army is the song the park will already know. The reason to go is the live reputation: loud, raw, closer to folk-blues and garage than to a hits revue. An outdoor park will not give you club acoustics. It will give you volume, dust and a crowd that already knows the riff.
To be clear about what this page is: this is not our event. Saucy runs its own nights in Istanbul, and this is not one of them. We are reporting somebody else's festival date because the practical detail around Parkorman is the kind of thing we happen to know. There is nothing for sale here.
The rest of the afternoon
Pozitif Müzik is running Soundgarden on 22 to 23 August. Doors on the festival listing are 15:00. Sunday currently also names Wet Leg, The Kills, Radio Free Alice and Miskinler. The park will hold people who came for any of those bills, plus a lot of combined-weekend tickets.
The front belongs to whoever arrived at doors. The back belongs to whoever came for one song. White will not be on at 15:00. Arrive knowing you will stand through other sets, or arrive later and accept that the rail is gone.
AURORA lists the same park on the same afternoon. Babylon's published lineup does not currently name her. Do not assume one ticket is two dedicated sets.
Bonus Parkorman, which is not Küçükçiftlik
The venue is an outdoor hillside on Büyükdere Caddesi in Maslak. There are no reserved seats and almost no cover if it rains. Food and drink inside are festival-priced. Wear shoes that can take grass. Assume a bag check.
Maslak is further out than Şişli. Metro to ITU Ayazağa, then a short walk or a bus along Büyükdere, is the usual approach. It is also the more predictable way out. When the park empties, taxis on the main road take a long time.
August evenings here are warm until they are not. A layer you can carry through a hot afternoon is still the right call after dark.
Our concerts guide has the wider comparison of Istanbul's music venues and what each is actually for.
Getting home, which is a Sunday problem
23 August 2026 is a Sunday. This is the single most practical thing on this page.
Istanbul's metro runs through the night on Friday and Saturday nights on several major lines. It does not on a Sunday. The network closes around midnight as usual, so a festival day that runs late is night bus or taxi territory rather than metro territory.
Plan for that before you go:
- Walk clear of the gate before you open a taxi app. Büyükdere surges when the park empties.
- Night buses run from Taksim to most districts and cost very little with an İstanbulkart.
- BiTaksi or Uber rather than hailing on the street, after you have already walked away from the exit.
Our metro hours guide has the first and last trains line by line.
Who this is for
Go if you want White in the open air and you are willing to spend a festival day on your feet.
Think twice if you wanted a seated headline show, or if a Sunday night without the night metro is a problem for how you get home.
If you only want White, a Saturday-and-Sunday combined ticket is the expensive way to spend one evening.
As above, this is somebody else's show. If you want to know what Saucy is actually running, that is on Instagram.
Verify before you travel
We checked Istanbul's autumn 2026 listings carefully and the aggregator data was poor: of three major shows we verified, one had been cancelled while ticket sites still listed it as available, and one was actually taking place in Athens rather than Istanbul.
This date is among the better-corroborated ones, appearing on the Babylon Soundgarden page and on the Turkish ticketing platforms the organiser names. Set times still move. Confirm against the festival's own channels before you book travel around it. Our concerts guide explains how to check a date properly.
Last checked: 19 August 2026.
Frequently asked questions
When and where is Jack White playing in Istanbul?
Sunday 23 August 2026 at Bonus Parkorman, day two of Babylon Soundgarden. Doors on the festival page are 15:00. Confirm the date and the rest of the bill against the organiser's own channels before booking travel.
Is it a standalone concert?
No. It is a festival day. Wet Leg, The Kills and others are billed on the same afternoon.
How do I get home afterwards?
23 August 2026 is a Sunday, so the weekend night metro is not running and the network closes around midnight. Walk clear of the gate before opening a taxi app, or take a night bus from Taksim with an İstanbulkart.