Blogcritics.org (blog) Interview: World Musician Chris McKhool, Founder of Canada's Sultans of String Blogcritics.org (blog) It helped inspire some of that music . You'll hear a very common Arabic rhythm, a Saidi rhythm, in that song Here is the original post:  Interview: World Musician Chris...

Sufi trail leads world to Bengal Times of India KOLKATA: From the biggest music magazine of Europe to the tribal drumming association of Ghana, Kolkata, the classical music capital, now has the world's attention for its love for sufi. Read more:  Sufi trail leads world to Bengal – Times...

gulfnews.com Dubai Shopping Festival: A big bag full of records gulfnews.com Like the original Arabic musical instrument, the giant version has five double strings and 12 keys. 23 See the rest here:  Dubai Shopping Festival: A big bag full of records – gulfnews.com

PRI’s The World Concerto 'Tahrir for Clarinet and Orchestra' Inspired by Egyptian Uprising PRI’s The World Krakauer, as Fairouz describes him, is a musician well-versed in Middle Eastern, Jewish Klezmer, as well as Arabic music , which made him a perfect fit for this piece. In the...

The National E-books put the accent on Arabic The National It operates Google's Android Honeycomb software and connects to e-books, as well as music and TV shows. iPad 2 The iBooks app within this tablet links to more than 700000 digital books, some of which are fully illustrated in colour with...

MassLive.com emma's revolution mixes politics, music and humor MassLive.com The duo's song , “Peace, Salaam, Shalom” (“peace” in English, Arabic and Hebrew), sung with 10000 people in the streets of New York just days after 9/11, is now sung around the world. It has been called the “anthem...

A Night When All the World's Onstage New York Times It could sound like an Arabic pop orchestra accompanying serpentine melodies, or a North African trance group driving a modal riff, only to switch toward jazzy horn and flute solos or hints of chamber music . The through line was Ravid Kahalani's...

Fifteen New Galaxie Music Stations Take Shaw Customers Around the World MarketWatch (press release) As the first provider in Canada to launch the new channels, Shaw is excited to now offer even more non-stop, commercial-free music to its customers. The new channels have a focus on cultural music , with...

Al-Bawaba Nancy Ajram wins World Music Award Al-Bawaba On a different note, Jiji stated that Nancy will be holding a grand performance in the Italian city Milan next month. The concert is part of the grand Arabic Music Festival taking place in Italy for the first time and is considered to be the first...

'King of Pop' of Arab world Asian Tribune Amr Diab , 'King of Pop' of Arab world, the Egyptian singer and composer has ruled the Arab music world since the mid -80s, continually breaking sales records. He is known as the 'Father of Mediterranean music'. According to World Music,...