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 ...

(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 ...

Antoun Tawil, one of Syrias last traditional lute makers, waits in vain in his Damascus workshop for orders of the oud, an instrument his country was once renowned for producing. While the conflict ...