Ibrahim Maalouf plays a four-valve trumpet — most just have three. The extra valve, attached to the button a trumpeter pushes down, allows the Lebanese musician to play quarter-tones — the notes ...

Ali Paris, voice and qanun, Faisal Zedan, percussion. Moroccan Gnawa, Egyptian Samai, Syrian Longas – musical forms rarely heard in the West, yet beloved by millions of people across Northern Africa ...

Natacha Atlas considers herself a globe-trotter. The singer-songwriter, noted for her multicultural mix of Arabic music with Western techno-pop, classical and jazz styles, was born 46 years ago in ...

BEIRUT — Sabah Fakhri, a commanding Syrian tenor who helped preserve classical Arabic music with marathon-length concerts around the world, including one 10-hour performance without break in Caracas, ...

BEIRUT: A division of the Jeddah-based BMG Financial Advisors, the regional investment bank, announced on Wednesday plans for a performance of the Al-Farabi Concerto on June 19, an event organizers ...

For more than three decades, the Palestinian oud virtuoso Simon Shaheen has relentlessly championed his soft-spoken instrument across America and beyond. He has penned solo works, pieces for oud with ...

Some say football matches are not only determined by action on the field but by songs sung in stadiums. The Qatar 'Soundbeats ...

For all the times that we’ve heard the phrase “African music,” it can be easy to forget that we’re talking about an entire continent here. The reality is that the African continent consists of more ...