As concert venues go, it's not exactly Carnegie Hall. A few dozen folding chairs are set up in a courtyard, in front of a modest elevated stage. A half-dozen musicians are crowded around a table, ...

I’ve been loving every note of a wonderful new jazz/Algerian chaâbi fusion album called Koum Tara: Chaâbi, Jazz and Strings. I featured a track from it on last week’s show,… The music of Koum Tara: ...

Fatiha Lwazza, a celebrated figure in Moroccan Chaabi music, passed away from a sudden heart attack early Friday morning in Rabat. Widely recognized as a prominent voice in women’s Chaabi music, ...

Stephen Graham of 'Adolescence' says research took its co-writer down 'a lot of dark holes' ...

In a concert hall down by the old port in Marseilles, a rabbi wearing a suit, Phillipe Darmon, walks on stage and launches into an unaccompanied song. Beside him stands another man; they trade verses ...