News Syria Music: Syrian-Canadian composer takes a trip to outer space
DUBAI: Syrian-Canadian guitarist, composer, producer and lyricist Rawad A. Massih released his new album earlier this month, giving fans of trippy, other-worldly music something new to enjoy. Aptly named “Away from Planet Earth,” the gloriously eerie new album features tracks such as “Vacant Planet,” marked by its synth-filled melodic landscape, and “Out of the Black Hole.”
News Syria Music: Carole Samaha performs in Damascus while waving Syrian flag – in pictures
Samaha was seen holding the Syrian flag during the performance while the crowd cheered her on. The singer was criticised by some last month for agreeing to perform in the war-torn country, but she ...
News Syria Music: Syrian singer George Wassouf to play in Kurdistan for the first time
His career spans four decades, but this weekend will be the first time George Wassouf will perform in Kurdistan in Iraq, where he has a particularly strong fan following. The singer, considered a ...
News Syria Music: I turned war bomb sounds into music, Syrian rockstar Jake Shuker tells WION
Death metal band frontman Jake Shuker turned his war memories into music. His fingers effortlessly strumming the guitar conveys only one message -- his passion for heavy metal, which made him get away from war-torn Syria and seek refugee in Lebanon. Speaking to WION, Jake said that he was just six when he was introduced to the metal genre. Soon it became his passion and he not only embraced it but wore it on his sleeves.
News Syria Music: Casting Announced For OLD STOCK: A REFUGEE LOVE STORY At Wilton's Music Hall
Full casting is announced today for OLD STOCK: A REFUGEE LOVE STORY, a dizzying 80 minute, genre bending, darkly funny gig-meets-live theatre experience based on a true story of two Jewish Romanian refugees fleeing Romania for Canada in 1908. Covering sex, religion, tragedy and triumph, the show follows Chaim and Chaya as they make a fresh start in the New World. Joining previously announced Ben Caplan and Mary Fay Coady are Eric Da Costa, Jeff Kingsbury and Kelsey McNulty.
News Syria Music: Thousands of ISIS sleeper cells 'could attack Britain' in revenge for the fall of the 'caliphate' in Syria
Syrian Democratic Forces commander Mervan Kamishlo told the ... Victorious SDF fighters played Arabic techno music and danced arm-in-arm to taunt IS survivors. Their brutal regime had imposed a total ...
News Syria Music: In Syria, customers are back in Aleppo's Bab al-Ahmar public bathhouse
Read more about In Syria, customers are back in Aleppo's Bab al-Ahmar public bathhouse on Business Standard. At times during Syria's war, shortages of water, heating fuel and electricity reportedly drove people to the Damascus public bathhouses, but none of the customers at Bab al-Ahmar baths
News Syria Music: Syrian guitarists keep music alive in Canada
A Syrian guitar quartet is playing their music across Canada in a fellowship for musicians from war-torn countries. They're playing in Calgary this weekend.
News Syria Music: In North Syria, the Arts Return to Raqqa
After almost four years under ISIS, which banned music and the arts, US-backed forces expelled the ... ISIS overran Raqqa in 2014, making the city its de facto Syrian capital. Before ISIS arrived, the ...
News Syria Music: In north Syria, the arts return to former jihadist bastion
A young boy is among those to enjoy traditional music and dance at the first cultural centre to open in the northern Syrian city of Raqa, following the Islamic State group's defeat there in late 2017 ...
News Syria Music: A safe place for music: Syrian guitarists to play in Calgary
Sometimes it was so cold in Syria without heat, Orwa Alshara'a struggled to strum his guitar. His fingers would get so stiff and cold, it was nearly impossible to play. The professional musician has ...
