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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

Gordon Grdina is a Vancouver based Oud/Guitarist whose sound is a combination of his interests in mainstream jazz, free-form improvisation and Arabic classical music. A protégé of jazz great Gary ...

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 ...

In war and peace, the oud never leaves this Syrian musician’s side Hassan Hamza preserves the traditional craft of making the musical instrument in a country that has seen more than a decade of war.

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 ...

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.