The use of minor scales intrigued Namjoo because Shabpareh is known as an “icon of happiness” in Iranian pop culture, he said. Namjoo discussed Shabpareh’s innovative synthesis of Iranian folk and ...

The group seeks to collect, record, and interpret Iranian folk music for a global audience. Rastak incorporates language, culture, and history, merging traditional instruments and forms with ...

Tar player Siamak Sepehri (L), who leads the Iranian folk music band Rastak, listens as Farzad Moradi, the group's Kurdish lead singer, talks during an interview with Reuters in the Omani capital ...

The project, a collaborative endeavor by musicians Hooshyar Khayam and Bamdad Afshar, aims to shed light on the few remaining artists and keepers of Iranian folk music tradition by incorporating ...

The music of Iranian composer Emanuel Melik Aslanian will be performed by one of his former students at a free concert at the Rancho Bernardo Library on Jan. 11.

Thursday Nights Nowruz Celebration: Dina Zarif Ensemble Performs Music from Iran Latin-inflected Iranian folk music and storytelling bring Persian New Year to life. Celebrate Nowruz (Persian New ...

Now Farzad, whose new CD, “Mirror of Emotions,” mixes classical, Latin, jazz and Iranian folk music is immersed in cultural diversity. And his album is No. 1 in New Age Voice magazine’s Top ...

The 13th-century Persian poet Sa’di suggests these in his poetry, and through the folk songs – American, English, Persian, and Azerbaijani – you will hear people pining for their distant lovers.

For the Iranian diaspora, the uprisings in Iran have generated a myriad of emotions from triggered trauma to heartbreak to despair to hope. The music industry has not been as vocal about the ...

‍ Rastak is one of the most well-known bands in Iranian contemporary folk music, which was formed as an experimental music group in 1997. The group seeks to collect, record, and interpret Iranian folk ...

Rastak, founded in 1997 by a group of music students in Tehran, has brought its energetic brand of Iranian folk music to some of the world's leading venues including London's Barbican, but ...