Sheikh Ahmed Zaitouni still laughs when he recalls his first attempts to play music: “My brother played a sort of two-stringed instrument we call a gimbri,” he says, speaking through a translator from ...

Who: The Al Andalus Ensemble, a Portland-based, internationally-known, world chamber music ensemble that performs music from around the globe from an Andalusian perspective. What: "Legacies: 711-2011, ...

Composer and author Paul Bowles first went to Morocco in 1931. He fell in love with the country, returning often and eventually moving to Tangier, where he lived from 1947 until his death in 1999.

Historical memory can linger in music, sometimes for centuries. The Flamenco Festival concert on Saturday night at Town Hall, by the singer Marina Heredia and the Chekara Arab-Andalusian Orchestra of ...

The Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod will host jazz pianist Omri Mor with saxophonist Abatte Barihun and a Moroccan vocalist in a month-long concert series. The performance, “From West to East,” will ...

The Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon Lezion will host some leading musicians on stage for an event full of Flamenco music and traditional Moroccan singing, musically arranged for a symphonic orchestra ...