(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DIRECTOR OF THE YEMENI HOUSE FOR MUSIC AND ARTS, FUAD AL-SHARJABI, SAYING:"The project is called 'Back to Surface' and is divided into two parts. The first part is to ...

Bob Dylan certainly shocked a few folkies when he plugged in his guitar, but Malian musician Bassekou Kouyate has taken the West African region’s ancient lute instrument - the ngoni - and plugged it ...

This weekend is the annual Lowell Folk Festival and local lauoto player Vasilis Kostas will be playing. The lauoto is an eight-string, long necked instrument also called the Greek lute. Kostas grew up ...