A 2,500-year-old ancient Greek lyre was found in an excavation in Kerameikos area in Athens, Greece. Credit: Ephorate of Antiquities of the City of Athens The lyre was the musical instrument that ...

Like a clock keeping time, the face of Athens is marked by the past, the minutes ticking by in ancient Greek ruins, remnants of Roman architecture and an assortment of gilded, Byzantine-era churches.

Angine de Poitrine don't abide by the usual rules of Western music, using their own custom-built guitar to strike notes that shouldn't exist ...

Some of summer's most popular festivals take place this week, focusing on music, cultural identity and CNY-centric experiences.

Researchers decode ancient Greek music by reconstructing its exact tuning and intonation. Credit: wikimedia commons / Basedakov CC B Y 4.0 More than two thousand years after ancient Greek and Roman ...

The inspiring and idiosyncratic debut from a 53-year-old priest in Greece pinballs between drone metal and techno Christmas carols, field recordings and hymns. Paradise Metal—the debut of Father ...

The Repair Shop has been praised for its “impossible” restoration of a woman’s late son’s folk instrument, writes Lauren Del Fabbro. The BBC1 show took on the challenge to repair a Greek lyra, a three ...

The Repair Shop has fixed an instrument belonging to Emma MacLennan's son after he died aged 31 Seeing repairs to her late son's obscure folk instrument was "like having him restored", a mother has ...

What connects the Beatles, Noel Gallagher, and Lenny Kravitz? They used—and continue to use—Epiphone guitars. What is rarely mentioned is that one of the most important brands in the world of stringed ...

Greek pianist, composer, improviser and bandleader. She studied classical music (Piano Soloist and Composition diplomas) and Agriculture (MS on Food Technology, AUA). She explores jazz as the most ...

Will Westerman thinks he spent too much time on An Inbuilt Fault. He’s still proud of it, but the British musician, who records under his surname, wanted to do something differently this time around. ...