The group Ribab Fusion performs a fusion of jazz, Moroccan funk and Afropop on Sept. 27 at University Auditorium. (Submitted photo) By Bill DeanEntertainment editor Even the most ardent aficionados of...
As part of their US tour, Fleur d’Orange brings their riveting performance ofIDENTITY/IDENTITÉ to Dance Place for one night only. Spearheaded by choreographer and dancer Hind Benali, the intense...
ARASHDEEP SINGH “Morocc’n Roll” is how Hoba Hoba Spirit has been billed for its show tonight at CSPS Hall, but don’t be fooled. This is not some slickly packaged world music. This band rocks, plain...
Matt Minor, news staff writer With the sun bowed out behind the mountains of Blacksburg, a band unknown to most of the country climbed the stage at 130 Jackson on Thursday night. Amid curiosity-driven...
by Niala Mohammad “Art is Like Water for the Fire of Fundamentalism”-Khumariyaan the Band As I sat on in the grand foyer of the Kennedy Center, overlooking the Potomac River, a feeling of pride and...
Washington DC - Moroccan band, Hoba Hoba Spirit, opened the second leg of the band’s month-long Center Stage tour to the United States with a concert at the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage yesterday...
They will join artists from Morocco and Pakistan in the programme, which the US State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has organised. The event, to be held from September to...
“Khumariyaan is a derivative of the word khumaar (intoxication). The source could be anything — music, spiritualism, wine, love, drugs or even good food. We strive to have the same effect, if you will...
Reaching out with music A Rahim Khan How does a national culture marred by a decade of bad international press affect a revamp? How does it emerge from a miasma of disrepute? Questions of these sorts...
