This was a different group than the trio that your scribe saw in Birmingham around a year earlier, with Syrian qanun player Maya Youssef losing her pair of Iranian sidekicks and now joined by some new ...
SYRIAN musician Maya Youssef is a virtuoso on the qanun, the 78-string plucked zither at the heart of Arabic music. 78 strings, Maya? "It's just a number. You soon get over it," she says, ahead of ...
This gallery is from Late Junction—Late Junction Sessions, Maya Youssef, Laura Moody, Ana Silvera Max Reinhardt with a studio session featuring Maya Youssef, Laura Moody and Ana Silvera.
Damascus-born Maya Youssef is hailed as ‘the queen of the qanun’, a traditional Syrian 78-stringed plucked zither. Based on Arabic musical traditions, her innovative sound has echoes of everything ...
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