Ibrahim Maalouf plays a four-valve trumpet — most just have three. The extra valve, attached to the button a trumpeter pushes down, allows the Lebanese musician to play quarter-tones — the notes ...

Growing up in Chicago, Amir ElSaffar’s most vivid contact with Iraqi culture came through food. Though his mother’s ancestors settled in America during the 1600s, she had learned to prepare the ...

The Poway Library’s Arab American Heritage Month celebration will feature Arabic music and Dabkeh traditional folk dances. Performances will start at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 28 at the library’s patio, ...

Western music is very connected to the rich history of Arabic music. Many of our Western musical instruments are direct descendants of Arabic stringed and reed instruments as well as the use of ...

Forward, back, forward, back. Stomp. Stomp. Woodstock Elementary School students moved to the traditional Arabic rhythm of the tabla Thursday morning, learning a simple Lebanese stomp dance, or Damke, ...