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 ...

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, ...

I'll be honest: I went along to hear the authentic sets of Arab-Andalusian music which spread outwards from the courts of Seville (to Tunisia), Cordoba (to Algeria) and Granada (to Morocco). I wasn't ...

In 1959, Paul Bowles traveled around Morocco to record as much traditional music as he could. A new box set of those recordings tells almost as... Composer and author Paul Bowles first went to Morocco ...