Frank Marocco, a rare jazz accordionist, a first-call studio musician and one of the most recorded accordion players in the world, has died. He was 81. Marocco died Saturday at his home in the San ...

Van, an award-winning Moroccan producer, composer and DJ, has been working since 2000 to develop his own compositions while launching career-defining hits for major Moroccan singers and rappers. This ...

Often described as calm, kind, and discreet, I have learned that our temperament quietly reveals the world that shaped us. I grew up to the voices of Often described as calm, kind, and discreet, I ...

Gnawa music is often likened to American blues and gospel. Gnawa music is a mixture of African rhythms and Islamic poetry created by enslaved West Africans brought to Morocco. For centuries, it was ...

Said Tichiti, founder of the Budapest, Hungary-based band Chalaban, is excited to lead the group on its first tour of North America, from Montreal to New York, Miami and Los Angeles — with a stop in ...

On a dusty and deserted Brooklyn stage, Moroccan native Mohamed Bechar plucks the strings of his sentir, a long-necked lute crafted from wood and camel skin. Nearby, his son Moe, 16, clad in a red ...

The Alliance Française of New Orleans (AFNO) is excited to announce a vibrant collaboration with the New Orleans Public Library, offering a series of free workshops designed to introduce children to ...

The Israeli Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod, known for its medleys of traditional Sephardic and Arab-Jewish music, has always been made up of Israeli musicians who are primarily of Tunisian, Moroccan and ...

Arabic, Hebrew, and Spanish are intrinsically interwoven in the formation of Jewish identity in Northern Morocco. Through a version of Judeo-Spanish called Haketía, language and oral traditions are ...

With Shakira, Kanye West and other top international artists performing in open air venues around Morocco's capital — often for free — the annual Mawazine world music festival doesn't at first seem… ...