Students receive free lessons and instruments — and a serious introduction to musical traditions of all sorts.

There are no shortages of Latin music events happening this summer in Greater Boston. Here are just a few of them.

The four-day choir-singing and dancing event centers around Estonian folk songs and patriotic anthems and is held roughly ...

The kora, a traditional West African stringed instrument, is played by plucking with the fingers and can be compared to a lute or harp. A highly versatile musician, Konteh performs both as a solo ...

Duff notes, timing errors and quirky performance choices are often the elements that underline the humanity of acoustic ...

When Daniela Chávez was 16, she and her parents watched Mariachi Los Camperos play in Mexico—and it lit a formidable fuse ...

The Emmy-winning performer of a 16-string Vietnamese zither will perform at San Francisco’s Aug. 2 Yerba Buena Gardens ...

Flower Songs & Flor y Canto," June 28, 1 - 4 p.m., at Boronda Adobe History Center in Salinas. Admission free.

Violinist Julie Lyonn Lieberman has a mission: to help classical string musicians of all ages, both amateur and professional, ...

The octobass is a huge stringed instrument that is twice the size of a double bass when standing, about 3.6 meters, and the strings cannot be pressed as they are, so the strings are pressed with a ...

This paper aims to enhance visitor engagement at the Malaysian Musical Museum (Muzium Muzik Malaysia) by developing an augmented reality (AR) mobile application, EMMAR, using the Unity game engine.

Stringed instruments make noise from the vibrations of tuned strings, using acoustic or electronic means to amplify those vibrations to the point where they’re loud enough to hear. The strings ...