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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

This weekend in the arts: Cog•nate Collective at ICA North; LITVAKdance's fall performances; Bocón Arts' "Mía'; the San Diego Symphony with Brahms, Liszt and Wagner; Iranian folk music at UC ...

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.

‍ 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 ...

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 100 chart.