Nehedar will bring her new music to life in a performance on June 19 at FeelBeit in Jerusalem. Maureen Nehedar’s latest single, “Chesed,” for which she wrote both lyrics and music, marks a poignant ...

A prominent Iranian music advocate and creator was detained by police officials and charged with allegedly aiding women to sing and dance, he told Fox News. Mehdi Rajabian, 30, said he was summoned by ...

TEHRAN- An Iranian musical ensemble graced an international cultural festival in Hanoi, Vietnam, a prestigious event ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook I got my first taste of Persian rap in the backseat of my friend’s car, flying through the ...

Listen to series host and podcast contributor Megan Vahdat sit down with the director of UCLA’s Iranian music program, Dr. Shahab Paranj, to discuss the importance of sharing traditional Iranian music ...

On Friday, Feb. 23 at 7:30 p.m. the University of Maine School of Performing Arts (SPA) presented a screening of the documentary “Six Centuries, Six Years.” The film portrays the journey of Iranian ...

I almost didn’t hear about this concert in time to share, but Iranian vocalist Mohammad Reza Shajarian, one of the greatest living practitioners of Persian classical music, is making a rare local ...

A fan cries as she shows an image of the nation's famous singer Mohammad Reza Shajarian on her phone outside the Jam Hospital where Shajarian has died of cancer at the age of 80, in Tehran Iran, ...

This is the second day of Nowruz, the Persian New Year -- and over the weekend, a quartet of Iran's greatest classical musicians wrapped up their tour of North America. At home in Iran, these ...

THE WORK of Mim Rasouli, a musician based near Tehran, is rich in Persian and Western influences. In “Fastalgia”, one of his best-known tunes, Mr Rasouli mashes up songs by Seyyed Javad Zabihi, a ...

Mohammad Reza Shajarian, whose distinctive voice quavered to traditional Persian music on state radio for years before he was blacklisted for supporting protesters after Iran’s contested 2009 election ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Mohammad Reza Shajarian, whose distinctive voice quavered to traditional Persian music on state radio for years before supporting protesters following Iran’s contested 2009 ...