Enjoy an all-acoustic holiday concert with Bryan Lubeck and friends Dec. 13 at the Box Factory in St. Joseph. Tickets ...

On Friday 26 February, a newly formed trio will take the stage of Room Arts Space in Cairo’s Garden City. Brainchild of the Egyptian-Canadian guitarist and oud player Ali Omar El-Farouk, the trio is ...

This week's show is divided into two parts. In the first half, we hear tracks to compare three solo plucked instruments -- the oud, the lute, and the guitar. Then we feature three songs by Latin jazz ...

Just as Al-Andalus, the parts of the medieval Iberian peninsula under Moorish rule, combined diverse cultures in heady creative ferment, so the ensemble Al-Andalus weaves myriad musics into ...

Gordon Grdina is a Vancouver based Oud/Guitarist whose sound is a combination of his interests in mainstream jazz, free-form improvisation and Arabic classical music. A protégé of jazz great Gary ...

He first heard the oud, a lute-like instrument, from a guitar teacher who gave him albums by jazz and Indian classical artists. After he finished college, he tracked one down on eBay and began ...

Grammy-nominated Turkish composer and musician Mehmet Ali Sanlikol would like to introduce his one-of-a-kind dream instrument. It’s been decades in the making, and on Wednesday, March 26, his ...

Shahin Alavi was born in 16th Feb.1961 in Iran. He began his studying the guitar with Mr.shahrokh Partovi at the age of 17 in Tehran ,and continued playing it under the guidance of Bagher Moazen . His ...