The fragrance of varnish and curing wood drifts by as you enter Side Door Strings, transporting you to an era when objects and the tools that built them were all made by hand. A violin in the raw sits ...

Next up is a full emersion with “Music, Love and Mysticism in the Ottoman World,” a 75-minute concert led by Joseph Alpar at ...

Last weekend’s musical menu included a Bach-polished Plaza Palooza, Malian groove machinist Habib Koite and a harvest mooning ...

Pro Musica’s Art of the Concerto Grosso concerts feature two works by celebrated Syrian clarinetist, composer, and improviser ...

Other events include an open mic at La Peña highlighting women of color and a Berkeley Symphony concert all about sharing stories from home.

The Rustaveli National Theater’s Small Stage became a portal to another world on November 1, where renowned Venetian cellist ...

On the next Echoes, two masters of strings, from guitar to ngoni, when we talk to Joss Jaffe and Jim “Kimo” West. Jaffe is a musical explorer. West is a guitarist with a reputation for ...

Cythara is an umbrella term for a range of stringed instruments of medieval and renaissance Europe. This is the sixth year ...

The musically fearless composer-vocalist demonstrates her skill as a singer of contemporary music and as a composer of ecologically oriented song cycles in concerts with Chatter and at the DD Ranch.

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show with the Friday poem and music that captures the mood of the morning.

Start by de-tuning or slacking your guitar strings to release any tension from the fretboard. Failing to do so can result in the strings snapping in shipment – causing damage or unwanted scratches to ...