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In an unprecedented gathering, the San Francisco World Music Festival is bringing together a diverse array of Kurdish musicians for "Voices of Kurdistan," a collaborative work involving ...
For centuries, dengbej songs served as news bulletin, history lesson and evening's entertainment all in one. Master singers continue to perform. But efforts to preserve Kurdish culture have suffered.
Traditional Kurdish music has been a part of one family's history for decades. Now, a father is teaching his son how to carry on the family tradition.
Click to read the article in Kurdish / Turkish. After the Kurdish-German Culture Institute (Deutsch-Kurdisches Kulturinstitut) shared its archive of over 900 Kurdish songs 8 months ago, eight songs ...
Kurdish music is as natural as humanity; its breath is improvisation. Kurdish musicians think of improvisation in terms of working their instrument. The liner notes for the world music CD, ...
Summer is here and it's the season of wedding parties throughout Türkiye. But for some Kurdish men, women, and children, joyful dancing and singing of Kurdish political folk songs at wedding ...
LONDON - My knowledge of contemporary Kurdish music is limited to the snippets I catch on television when I visit my grandmother, or the YouTube videos that my father sends if they’ve created a ...
Fans of the Kurdish-Turkish singer Ahmet Kaya are claiming that the tune is not a million miles away from his 1985 song “Acilara Tutunmak (Clinging to Pain)”.
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