Ahram Online highlights Egypt's artistic achievements and important cultural events of August and September 2016 ...

Cultural exchanges do not always make the noise generated by the New York Philharmonic’s recent visit to North Korea. When the Alexandria Police Ceremonial Orchestra, a troupe of eight anxious ...

Before releasing an album most bands would talk about record sales or concert dates. But for Egyptian band Cairokee the bigger talking point is whether they will get arrested. “Only Amir because he ...

Reporting from Cairo — Amir Salah Eldeen was driving along the Nile, past marsh grass and slums, when he spotted the aloof glow of luxury hotels and wrote a song that echoes with the line: “The eyes ...

Seun Kuti has continued to promote the struggle of awakening the revolution in thecommon man on the continent through his consistent ability to churn out politically and socially charged songs. Under ...

The history of the Grateful Dead is filled with outrageously wild tales...but perhaps the most fantastic of all happened on this day 47 years ago, when the iconic band played the Great Pyramid of Giza ...

It was a beautiful night for Mashrou’ Leila. Over 35,000 concertgoers showed up to see the Lebanese band and two other Arab rock groups perform at the daylong Music Park Festival in an upscale suburb ...

Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 band have sealed a partnership with Roland Corporation, a leading global manufacturer of electronic musical instruments and professional audio and video gears. The Nation was ...

Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 play Trees Wednesday, Sept. 27. A show at Trees tonight provides an opportunity to get close to late afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti when his youngest son takes the stage. Seun Kuti ...

An Augustana College Band member from Le Mars is safely out of Egypt. Twenty-one-year-old Jeff Burwitz, the son of Don and Linda Burwitz, is a junior who plays low brass with the Sioux Falls college’s ...