University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Weaving through the rooms of my Brisbane childhood home, carried on the languid, humid, sub-tropical air, was the sound of an ...

Concerts in major Australian cities will showcase traditional Iranian and Indigenous instruments. Iranian bagpipe musician Mohsen Sharifian performs with the aim of ‘keeping Bushehri and Iranian folk ...

The traditional music of Iran is a message, a call from the artist's innermost consciousness. Deeply intertwined with Iran's glorious history and culture, it is an expression of the joys, loves, ...

NeekOn will feature Live Music, Dance (including a Persian Folklore Dance Flash Mob), Visual Arts, and Food from multiple cultures around the world. (Neek means kindness.) In addition there will be ...

For centuries, the classical music “canon” has been dominated by European male figures. Times are changing, though, and many diverse voices are finally finding a foothold in the genre — and one need ...

Ali Saeidi; a singer and vocal coach, in an interview with Mehr news agency, in addition to providing some explanation about their (with his twin brother) newest musical activities, has stated that ...

Tar player Siamak Sepehri (L), who leads the Iranian folk music band Rastak, listens as Farzad Moradi, the group's Kurdish lead singer, talks during an interview with Reuters in the Omani capital ...

BEITEDDINE: Friday evening’s concert at the Beiteddine International Festival was not a typical performance. At least, it did not end with an ecstatically cheerful, firework-cracking climax. Iran’s ...

Iranian electronic producers are having a moment. After decades of pushback by the Islamic Republic on Western influences, a new underground generation is using digital, lyricless sounds to challenge ...