Sahba Motallebi’s journey to the Richmond Folk Festival began in Sari, a seaside city in northern Iran, at age 11. It was there that she began to play the setar, a small four-stringed Persian ...

The dossier for the Mehrgan celebration has jointly been developed with Tajikistan while the dossier for the art of making and playing Rabab includes Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, IRIB ...

Few in the West have heard its authentically Persian sound, but now the classical, Persian stringed instrument known as a kamancheh is being heard in an unlikely place - the mid-western U.S. state of ...

The sitar's distinctive sound is produced by a gently curved surface that makes each note bloom before it settles, an effect Indian craftspeople perfected by ear centuries before scientists could ...

Amid deep geopolitical uncertainty, the Beijing workshop of Majid and Massoud Shamaeezadah preserves and shares Persian ...