While the recording doesn't contain any new material; disc one sees her reworking some of her most well known songs and disc two is covers of other people's work; the solo performances are ...

On March 16, the theatre of the city of Tunis will host a classical music concert, which is organized by the Ministry of the Higher Education in conjunction with the Higher Music Institute of Tunisia ...

The Dreams Recorder group performed their first concert in Egypt on Thursday at Al Azhar park. The project, born in Tunis, brings together Egyptian and Tunisian artists with the aim of starting a new ...

After featuring the Sultana of Tarab Music, the Prince of Arabic Violin, the Master of Buzuq, Hajja Zeinab El Mansouria, the rich music of Happy Yemen (8th Century BC-19th Century AD), Happy Yemen in ...

Every year since 2007, Tunis has hosted an electronic music and arts festival known as the the E-fest project. Just over a year after the first free election in Tunisia, and amid growing tensions with ...

As one of North Africa's biggest arts and music festivals celebrates half a century, Eve Jackson discovers the local talent, speaks to the star of this year's event, George Benson, and explores the ...

Last week the Tunisian capital, Tunis, was the happening place. First, there was this big meeting of the African Media Leaders Forum there. Then that fabulously rich Sudanese-born fellow Mo Ibrahim ...

Sure, buying recorded music in a tangible form — you know, those prehistoric, soon-to-be-extinct plastic discs known as CDs — is a lost art. To most people, popular music is downloaded as if it were a ...

From meditative Arab classical sounds to quasi-martial marches, rap and rock, these are the songs that reflected the mood of the Arab Spring. While you’re left in no doubt as to the music’s relevance ...

Our final Barnstormer tour of 2011 got ambitious. We took it out of the Midwest for the first time and began the run of 8 dates on the east coast. Little did we know that Hurricane Irene wanted to pay ...

8 p.m. May 29 at Willie's Locally Known, 805 N.Broadway. $10. (859) 281-1116. Willieslex.com. 6:45 p.m. June 1 at the Lyric Theatre and Cultural Art Center for the WoodSongs Old-Time Hour, 300 East ...