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

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 ...

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 ...

The oud is the principal instrument in Middle Eastern music: it's an ancient, fretless, short-necked lute with five pairs of strings and a bass string. On Evolution, his third CD as leader, Amos ...

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 ...