Bands that list too many influences tend to sound like a mess. So what does Fool’s Gold, a band that’s a goulash of Ethiopian soul music, Touareg music from Mali, Congolese secousse music, Eritrean ...

Mesmerized, the teenage campers at first sat quietly in a circle around the visiting musician. But the room came to life as the artist, an acoustic guitar strapped across his left shoulder, began his ...

With Ravid Kahalani at its helm, genre-defying band Yemen Blues is known for a deeply experimental sound & live performances that border on the spiritual. Next they perform in NYC. To say that Ravid ...

(New York Jewish Week) — After she finished her compulsory military service as a singer in an IDF performing arts troupe, Israeli folk singer Bat Ella wasn’t sure how she would incorporate music into ...

Each summer, tens of thousands of American Jews attend residential camps, where they may see Hebrew signs, sing and dance to Hebrew songs, and hear a camp-specific hybrid language register called Camp ...

A Moscow audience of 2, 000 that filled the Chaikovsky Conservatory auditorium there to capacity cheered, wept and called for more encores last night when Jan Peerce, famous Metropolitan Opera tenor, ...

When Michael Jackson released “Thriller” four decades ago, the epic album shot to No. 1 all around the world, but not in Israel — where an album paying homage to popular, romantic Spanish songs of the ...

The Israeli singer Nofar Batat is an example of the deep and enduring popularity of Greek music in Israel. Her success in ...

Shoshana Damari, whose voice came to embody the emerging nation of Israel and comforted its people during their most trying times, died Tuesday. She was 83. Damari, who was battling pneumonia, had ...