AMHERST — On Friday night, Afghan traditional music virtuoso Salar Nader and his Afghan Music Project played The Drake in Amherst. The tabla artist and another traditional master musician, Quraishi, ...

Homayoun Sakhi is a master performer on Afghan rubab as well as a composer who brings together Eastern and Western musical languages and instruments. Born in Kabul into one of Afghanistan’s leading ...

Along with the growing humanitarian crisis, Afghanistan's rich musical culture is under threat - Copyright Matangi Tonga/AFP Mary Lyn FONUA Along with the growing ...

Watch a short excerpt from the 24-minute documentary film included in the CD/DVD for 'Music of Central Asia Vol. 3: Homayun Sakhi: The Art of the Afghan Rubâb,' released by Smithsonian Folkways in ...

In August 2021, less than two weeks after pianist and composer Arson Fahim '26 left his native Afghanistan to study composition at New England Conservatory, the Taliban took over his homeland and ...

Courtesy of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music Three years ago, nearly 300 young Afghan musicians, their teachers and staff from their music school fled Afghanistan in fear for their lives ...

Three years ago, nearly 300 young Afghan musicians, their teachers and staff from their music school fled Afghanistan in fear for their lives after their country fell again to the Taliban. NPR ...

A few years after the Taliban were ousted in 2001, and with Afghanistan still in ruins, Ahmad Sarmast left his home in Melbourne, Australia, on a mission: to revive music in the country of his birth.

KABUL — The capital’s morning rush hour is a discordant backdrop for the workshop of Izzatullah Neamat. But walk down an alley, sidestep a sewage canal, and there he is: ensconced in the rabble among ...