Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There is no understating the pandemonium at the box office in the modest community arts centre where Marcel Khalife is playing in Ghent, ...

Palestinian musician and composer Wanees Zarour has been a fixture on Chicago’s international music scene for more than a decade, adapting his fluency on the violin and the buzuq (a long-necked Arabic ...

Who would have thought that the supremely subtle oud (the ancient Arabic lute) could be featured on a recording with piano, that most dominantly Western of instruments? Meticulously arranged and… By ...

Marcel Khalife, born in 1950 in Amchit, Lebanon, has injected new life into the music produced by the oud (the Arabic lute) ― helping revive an important part of Arabic culture. Khalife studied the ...

Passion is true to its title. This CD offers startling precision too! One duet aside, it is a set of solo improvisations by a Turkish master of the oud - the fretless, Arabic lute. Born on the Black ...

The West Kortright Centre will present the Rahim AlHaj Trio, featuring Iraqi oud (Arabic lute) virtuoso and composer Rahim AlHaj, joined by Iranian santour maestro Sourena Sefati and ...

Last weekend we highlighted an unusual surprise-success, involving a string quartet. Tonight’s featured album is another - and an even more ’unlikely’ success. Friendship is a collaboration between an ...

'The Salvation Army insisted on seeing a purely cultural event with political eyes and then complained that the event was political," says Manal Swairjo, co-organizer of the concert featuring Lebanese ...

There may not be any words to be found on Marcel Khalifé's latest virtuoso celebration of the oud (the Arabic lute pictured on the cover), but Caress (Muda'aba) does an elegant job in using the ...