NEW LEBANON, N.Y. -- Amir ElSaffar has made a living out of weaving together a variety of musical traditions. He grew up in Chicago listening to the blues, trained to be a classical trumpeter, ...

Virginia Tech hosted “Sounds of Desire” on Saturday, a one-woman show accompanied with traditional Iraqi music. The performance, which started touring in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2003, depicts the lives ...

Last Friday saw the release of Yoni Battat’s debut solo album Fragments. It’s a collection of Iraqi-Jewish-inspired original music and an ode to some traditional classics. Even before this album, Yoni ...

Amir ElSaffar didn’t want to leave Baghdad when the war started. The Oak Park native, a jazz trumpeter who was 25 in 2002, had been there studying the urban classical music maqam, but he was getting ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BAGHDAD (AP) — War kept him away from his ...

After years of committed research and practice of strictly traditional forms like Iraq's endangered maqam, violinist and spike fiddle player Dena El Saffar, percussionist Tim Moore, trumpeter and ...

Rahim AlHaj, virtuoso oud musician and composer, was born in Baghdad, Iraq and began playing the oud (the grandfather of all stringed instruments) at age nine. Early on, it was evident that he had a ...

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