Bassekou Kouyate’s ngoni set to electrify a World Music Fest audience Bob Dylan certainly shocked a few folkies when he plugged in his guitar, but Malian musician Bassekou Kouyate has taken the West ...

With the Santa Claus parade just winding down, the Aurora Fiddle Dancers jigging up a storm at the Tree of Peace and other ...

Love, war and the evanescence of life will be the themes when Biwa master Yoko Hiraoka takes the stage for a concert of traditional Japanese music. The Biwa is an ancient lute-like string instrument ...

(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DIRECTOR OF THE YEMENI HOUSE FOR MUSIC AND ARTS, FUAD AL-SHARJABI, SAYING:"The project is called 'Back to Surface' and is divided into two parts. The first part is to ...

This year’s edition of the Bates College world music series features Wu Man, the renowned virtuoso on the Chinese stringed “pipa,” and members of the premiere ensemble performing ancient Japanese ...

Namazbek Uraliev (left) and Sylvian Roy find a common language Artists trying to preserve Europe's ancient music traditions have gathered at the St. Chartier Festival in central France for the past 30 ...

The String Orchestra of the Rockies' upcoming concert features an ancient instrument and starts with baroque classics. It will end with a concerto for an electric version of the bass lute that was ...

When Joseph Mayes heard the lute, it was love at first note. The Collingswood resident was studying with guitar master Andrés Segovia in Spain in 1968 when the music coming from the pear-shaped ...

Read Anthony Kuhn's essay about modern variations on China's traditional themes. For many years, music scholars in China and Japan tried unsuccessfully to decipher ancient musical notations that ...

William S. Burroughs once called them "a 4,000-year-old rock 'n' roll band." Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones made his final recordings with them. Jazz legend Ornette Coleman invited them to play on ...