The URI Guitar Festival will include six concerts over its four days, Oct. 20-23, on and around the university's Kingston Campus. For guitar students and aficionados, there will also be numerous ...

When it comes to guitar chords, it all begins with basic ones that are called either major (use just the letter of the chord, eg E for E major) or minor (reduced to the letter plus m, eg Em for E ...

The oud, the lute, and the guitar all come from same musical family. The oud is the oldest of them all, going back thousands of years. The oud (also called ud) typically has 10-12 strings, is ...

This electric oud looks and sounds a bit like an electric guitar, but its timbre is different. The instrument enables Sanlikol to transform age-old Turkish music modalities, which are complex ...

In their upcoming concert, the newly formed trio will feature Ali Omar El-Farouk (oud, guitar, bağlama), Hany Bedair (cajón and frame drum), and Hazem Abdel-Nasser (classical guitar) ...

At the core of the concert were the 11 strings of Tarik’s oud (the lutelike instrument of the Middle East and North Africa), the six of Julia’s guitar and the four of Charlie Bisharat’s ...

Included among collection are an oud — the modern guitar's Middle Eastern ancestor, which first appeared about 5,000 years ago — an extremely rare guitar-organ amalgamation known as a ...

Vancouver guitarist/oud player Gordon Grdina is coming to New York to record and debut a new collaboration with Mark Helias, featuring special guests Tony Malaby and Vancouver drummer Kenton Loewen.

Gordon Grdina, a guitarist and oud player from Vancouver, British Columbia, will perform in Missoula with a new trio featuring New Yorkers Matt Mitchell (piano) and Jim Black (drums).

Besides El-Farouk on oud, guitar, and bağlama, the evening will also feature renowned percussionist Hany Bedair performing on cajón and frame drum, and guitarist Hazem Abdel-Nasser.