the pieces of his rubab broken by Taliban authorities cradled in his lap. People don't play for money now, they play to bring joy to others and so the music survives Mohsen, an Afghan artists ...

Many Afghan musicians fled out of ... vocal chants -- also the only forms of music allowed under their previous rule from 1996-2001. Amateur rubab player Gull Agha has a picture of his teacher ...

Many Afghan musicians fled out of fear ... until one December afternoon when he picked up a rubab in a house near a street of now-shuttered music shops. Smiling, he struck the strings but stopped ...

The performers will talk about the music they play ... A trio of performers playing Afghan rubab, a plucked string instrument that’s an important part of Afghan culture ...