The Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod will host jazz pianist Omri Mor with saxophonist Abatte Barihun and a Moroccan vocalist in a month-long concert series. The performance, “From West to East,” will ...

It’s a sign of the seismic shifts in the Israeli music scene when Ashdod’s Andalusian Orchestra, the award-winning band of musicians that plays traditional Sephardic and Jewish-Arab music, pairs up ...

Omer Avital’s visionary ‘North African Dream’ debuts with the Israeli Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod at next week’s Meridiano Festival Omer Avital, a virtuoso bassist, composer, arranger, and jazz ...

Sheikh Ahmed Zaitouni still laughs when he recalls his first attempts to play music: “My brother played a sort of two-stringed instrument we call a gimbri,” he says, speaking through a translator from ...

With the soaring, inspiring voices of Emil Zrihan and Haim Luc, and an instrumentation that mixes Western strings with instruments played in North Africa, the Israeli Andalusian Orchestra’s CD ...

Historical memory can linger in music, sometimes for centuries. The Flamenco Festival concert on Saturday night at Town Hall, by the singer Marina Heredia and the Chekara Arab-Andalusian Orchestra of ...

The Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon Lezion will host some leading musicians on stage for an event full of Flamenco music and traditional Moroccan singing, musically arranged for a symphonic orchestra ...

Israeli pianist & composer Avishai Darash has always made a deliberate effort to combine his Middle Eastern heritage with Western influences. He considers Andalusian music to be the origin and core of ...

Sitting in a Tel Aviv café over an odd combination of Tuborg beer, sliced watermelon and heavily seasoned green olives, Shmuel Elbaz sips his beer and says: “I like being unique. I like doing ...