A bold new cross-cultural music collaboration between traditional musicians from Northern Ireland and Iraq is set to take to ...

A bold new cross-cultural music collaboration between traditional musicians from Northern Ireland and Iraq will take to the ...

The Emmy-winning performer of a 16-string Vietnamese zither will perform at San Francisco’s Aug. 2 Yerba Buena Gardens ...

Back home in India, states like Goa are considered as global wellness centres. Kedar Naik, Director of the Department of Tourism, Government of Goa, underscores this brilliant transformation.

Speaking on ETV show "Ringvaade," Estonian folk band Duo Ruut, who performed at this year's Glastonbury said that their fans ...

"So beautiful like a sea glittering in sun and fishes making piruets. For me this sounds like a happy music. The performer is beautiful like a dream and her clothes and the instrument too. Endlessly ...

Often accompanying the guqin, a zither-like seven-stringed traditional musical instrument, the xiao, a traditional vertical bamboo flute with a relatively light sound, was often viewed as a foil.

To many, electronic music started in the 1980s; but the bizarre instruments that predated electronica were invented decades earlier.

The Becker County Museum recently received a rare gift, in the form of a well-preserved Crown Orchestral Piano that was ...

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Near the lush fields of his village in Sudan's southern Blue Nile state, Youssef Ismail has crafted a traditional horn-like instrument used for generations to usher in the harvest season.