What happens when Cyprus’ rich folk heritage collides with the techniques of contemporary classical music? This is the very question the TratSik String Quartet will explore in their upcoming concert, ...

Some varieties of Kurdish, such as Sorani, are written in the Sorani alphabet, an Arabic-derived script, while the Kurmanji ...

The 61st edition of the Ilidža Folk Music Festival, the oldest and most important festival of this genre in the region, begins tonight at the Ilidža Summer Stage. The main media sponsor of the ...

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NPR speaks with cellist Camden Shaw and Chickasaw composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate about the Dover Quartet's album ...

An interview about ’Celtic Utopia,’ a documentary film about Irish folk music by Dennis Harvey, Lars Loven premiering at the Locarno Critics’ Week.

Koma Amed, a Kurdish folk band known for its politically charged lyrics and multi-layered compositions, will perform in the Kurdish-populated Diyarbakır city this October after three decades in exile.

For anyone who saw A Complete Unknown and wondered how close it resembled the actual Newport Folk Festival where Bob Dylan amped up his music, a new documentary will help answer that question ...

‘Newport & the Great Folk Dream’ filmmakers tell Rolling Stone about their doc on Newport Folk Festival and its connection to 'A Complete Unknown.’ ...

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) — Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony on Friday in ...

Kurdish Militants Burn Arms to Mark End of War With Turkey People hold flags bearing the image of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan in Qamishli, northeastern Syria, in February.

Kurdish PKK fighters destroy weapons at key ceremony The group took up arms in 1984, beginning a string of bloody attacks on Turkish soil that sparked a conflict that cost more than 40,000 lives. In ...