WHEN AND WHERE: 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, at Flickinger Center for the Arts, 1110 N. New York Ave., Alamogordo; 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 12, Macey Center, 801 Leroy ...

Ameen Mokdad playing violin in Mosul, Iraq. One day, when Ameen Mokdad was 10 years old, he found his father hard at work in their home in Mosul, Iraq. Mokdad's father was an artist, and he was ...

Director Víctor Gil and Luthier Fernando Soler have dedicated their time to teaching youths from one of the poorest areas of Madrid to play instruments that Soler has crafted using recycled trash.

Young musicians from South America are going from the slums to the biggest stages of classical music by turning trash into melody. The group is tuning up for a concert in the Valley this summer.

OMAHA - Tavionne Turner grabbed a pair of chopsticks and began banging on junk. His instrument was a mishmash of scrap - cardboard tubes, old metal cans, string, duct tape, feathers and beads - ...

The Orquesta de Intstrumentos Reciclados de Cateura, or Recycled Orchestra, the Cateura, Paraguay-founded youth orchestra who perform with instruments made from recycled materials, performed at the ...

TAMPA, Fla. — The Pepin Academy Welding program is taking old, unused instruments and turning them into art which will be featured this weekend at the Gasparilla Music Festival in downtown Tampa.