The borrowings of the Jews of the Maghreb from the Andalusian music and the qasîdah? The musical styles of the Muslim, and Jewish communities appear to be very colorful and mutually influential, ...

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 ...

These days getting any offshore artists over here is a monumental challenge and bureaucratic nightmare. So, the fact that the Israeli Andalusian Orchestra currently has a bunch of Moroccan musicians ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Israeli pianist & composer Avishai Darash has always made a deliberate effort to combine his Middle Eastern heritage with Western influences. He considers Andalusian music to be the origin and core of ...

The Israeli Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod, known for its medleys of traditional Sephardic and Arab-Jewish music, has always been made up of Israeli musicians who are primarily of Tunisian, Moroccan and ...

Sitting in a Tel Aviv café over an odd combination of Tuborg beer, sliced watermelon and heavily seasoned green olives, Shmuel Elbaz sips his beer and says: “I like being unique. I like doing ...

Who would have thought Minneapolis-St. Paul would become such a hotbed of flamenco dance? In addition to the reigning queen of flamenco dance-theater, Susana di Palma, and her long-lived company, ...