His album Teheran Nights—a funky, electronic take on traditional Iranian Sufi music—is banned in Iran because it is deemed to stray too far from traditional music. Despite this, Pedram, in town to ...

The L.A.-based husband-wife team talks about bringing the multimedia show, inspired by ancient Sufi poetry, to life. What: “The Fourth Light,” performed by Niyaz When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20 ...

Azam Ali and Loga Ramin Torkian make up two-thirds of the Persian-Indian music trio Niyaz. Ali, who was born in Iran and moved to India when she was 4, and her husband Torkian, a native Iranian, now ...

By Ruba Hattar This weekend Iran has mourned classic Persian music icon Mohammad Reza Shajarian, who passed away at the age of 80 due to cancer. Shajarian, who started his life learning how to recite ...

The band’s concert entitled “Dance of Creation” will be performed on March 9. “This performance will be a repetition of our concerts held in Tehran in (August) 2008 in commemoration of Rumi,” band ...

“Now listen to the reed as it is grieving,” sang Hossein Omoumi, sitting cross-legged on a carpet at Meany Hall, dressed in white, loose-fitting pants and shirt. “Since they cut me from the bed of ...

Carl St.Clair, the music director and principal conductor of Orange Country’s Pacific Symphony, was a bit taken aback at one of the programming choices for the 2012 edition of the organization’s ...

Rumi, the 13th-century mystic poet, is center stage in a show that event organizers describe as a “multidimensional feast of poetry, music, dance, and story.” Providing the different courses for the ...

The festival offered a unique musical treat, as Sufi singers and dancers from various countries performed on the first day. PATNA: Language was no bar as the purpose was to be one with the Almighty.

Come February and the city will have itself soaked in the colour of love and peace with these soulful Sufi music and poetry event Mumbai is a home for many cultural activities and as we conclude the ...