The eight-piece ensemble connects musicians from Londonderry's North West Folk Collective with artists from Iraq's Mshakht ...

On Thomas Ades’s piano quintet, Peter Maxwell Davies’s Naxos Quartet No. 3, two string quartets of Christos Hatzis, and David Del Tredici’s Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter. Have a look at some ...

DAMASCUS, Syria, June 11 (UNHCR) - A trio of refugee musicians from Iraq have released their first album on some of the world's leading music-sharing sites and have agreed to use the profits to help ...

“I’m quite a coward,” Rahma Riad admitted with a laugh. “I mean, I like taking risks in general, but I avoid reckless ones when it comes to my music career.” It’s a surprisingly candid confession from ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — In a Baghdad workshop plastered with black-and-white photos from a more peaceful time, Mahmoud Abdulnabi hand-carves a wooden oud, a string instrument with ancient roots that has fallen ...

One day, when Ameen Mokdad was 10 years old, he found his father hard at work in their home in Mosul, Iraq. Mokdad's father was an artist, and he was frustrated while trying to begin a painting of a ...

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A cross-cultural music collaboration involving musicians from Northern Ireland and Iraq is set to feature prominently at one ...

Casting and seeking crew for 12 music videos, set as a limited series, detailing the pre-story of Carter Martin, who was disfigured in Iraq. Shoots mostly weekends, mostly filmed in the Martinsburg, ...