Lynn Adib is a Syrian singer, composer, and improviser whose work weaves together jazz, Arabic traditions, and sacred musical forms. Trained in Damascus and later in Paris, she is acclaimed for her ability to move fluidly between maqâm, Byzantine chant, and jazz improvisation. Her debut album Youmma (2018) and projects such as Bedouin Burger and Nearness embody a generation of Middle Eastern musicians creating beyond cultural and stylistic boundaries.

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Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista.

Bluiríní Béaloidis is the podcast from The National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin, and is a platform to explore Irish and wider European folk tradition across an array of subject areas and topics. Host Jonny Dillon hopes this tour through the folklore furrow will appeal to those who wish to learn about the richness and depth of their traditional cultural inheritance; that a knowledge and understanding of our past might inform our present and guide our future.

Podcasts are available for download directly from SoundCloud or via iTunes.

Nawa Band is a band that is concerned with reviving and propagating muwashahat and Qudud of all forms, religious and non-religious, and documenting FUSOOL of inherited DHIKR in Syria after having compared the anciently written scripts with the orally passed down identified ones. Nawa Band performs this heritage worldwide in the most integral and sincere form, preserving its purity and spirituality to the highest level.
The band was formed in Aleppo in 2009 by the musician Ibrahim Muslimani. It gathered an elite group of musicians and performers spurred by passion to perform compositions and FUSOOL from the first half of the 20th century that were either forgotten or misrepresented through time. Nawa selects compositions according to both artistic and historical value, not merely according to ancient relevance, apart from touristic folklore.
The old Syrian composers, both acknowledged and unacknowledged, played a significant role in enriching the musical reminiscence. Our endeavour today is to document and bring their masterpieces back to life and to heartily put them in the hands of the noble audience and musicians. This comes out of a hope to contribute to the rising of a new musical renaissance with genuine and strong roots, a renaissance connecting the present with our glorious past and leading them both to a luminous future.
The name “Nawa” is in line with our musical vision. Nawa is a Maqam name and it is the fifth note in the musical scale. As in the linguistic meaning, (Nawa) stands for the (Core), the distance and destination and the voyage in between. Therefore, by Nawa, we mean a fine art in which the human travels, body and soul, from one status to another and from one level to a higher one, abandoning ghosts and valuing souls. “Every person will harvest what they intended” – this is what Nawa is about.

نــــــــوا فِرْقـــــةٌ تهتــمُّ بإحيـاء ونشْـر المُوَشّحـات والقـدود بنوعَيْهـا: الـدينيّ والـغزَليّ، وتوثيـقِ فُصولٍ من الـذّكر المـتَوارَث في سوريا، وذلك بعد مقارنة الوثائق المدونة قديمــــاً بالمتواتِر الشفهيِّ، لِتـقْديـمها بأقصى أمانةٍ مُمْكِنة، مع المحافظةِ على الرُّوح والفـِطْرة في أداءها.
تأسّست فرقـة "نـــوا" في مدينة حلب عام 2009 بقيادة الفنان إبراهيم مُسلماني، وضمّت ثلّـــةً من الموسيقيين والمنشدين تجمعهم الرغبة في تقديم ألحانٍ وفُصولٍ يعودُ تاريخُها إلى ما قبل النصف الأوّل من القرن العشرين كانت قد نُسِيَت أو حُرِّفتْ عبـــرَ السنين. تخـتار فرقة نوا الألحــانَ حسبَ جمـالهـا الفنّـي وقـيـمتهــا التـاريخيــةِ معــاً، بعيــداً عن الفلكلـــــور السياحي والمستهلك.
كان للملحِّنين السوريين القُدامى، المعروفين منهم والمغمورين، أثــرٌ جليلٌ في إغنـــــاء الـذاكـرة الموسيقيـة. وإن اهتمامَنـا اليومَ بتوثيق أعمالهـم وإخــراجَها إلى النـور، ووضعِهـا بين أيــدي نُخْبــةِ المستمِعين والموسيقيين، يدفعهُ الأملُ بنهضةٍ موسيقيةٍ جديدةٍ قائمةٍ على أُسُسٍ فنيّةٍ أصيــلة، تنطلق إلى المستقبل بأجنحةٍ من الحاضر والماضي…
ويــأتي الاسـم "نـــــوا"منسجمـاً مـع رؤيتنـا المـوسيقيـة، فـكمـا أن "النَّــوى" اســمٌ لمقـــــــامٍ موسيقـي، واسـمٌ للدرجـةِ الخامسةِ في السُّلَّم المـوسيقي، وكمـا أن "النَّـوى" في اللغـة هــــو اللــبُّ، القصـدُ والرّحيـل، وطـرحُ الفضول، فكـذلك نقصـد في "نـــــوا" فنّــاً يَرْحــلُ فيــه الإنسـان بِلبِّـــه وقلبِــه مـن حـــالٍ إلى حـــالٍ، ومـن مقـــامٍ إلى مقـــامٍ أسْمـى، طـارحــاً غبـــارَ الأشبــاحِ، قاصــداً صفـــاءَ الأرواحِ. هـذا، ولـكل امـرئٍ مـا نـوى.

SIRIUS approaches art through the lens of society in order to play a civic role locally and beyond. SIRIUS creates focused, artist-driven projects and collaborative, community-oriented projects. SIRIUS facilitates the production and presentation of, and public engagement with, art and knowledge, and offers professional development opportunities to artists through commissions and residencies. SIRIUS operates across all art forms – visual, performing, live, film, sound, vocal, written and born-digital – programming a mix of exhibitions, performances, events and activities, both on site and online.

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