In a centuries-old tradition of Palestinian folkloric music, Doc Jazz is playing on the shibbabeh (Palestinian flute) in a new video. He published it both to Facebook – where it received a warm welcome – and to Youtube. Traditionally, in the northern regions of what is nowadays known as the “West Bank”, Palestinian ‘fallaa7een’ (farmers) often had the shibbabeh as...
There has always been a consistently high demand for information on the shibbabeh, judging from web traffic coming to my website. Also, I frequently get questions about the instrument, and my tutorials. I really apologize for not answering all of them. It’s just too much work, and frankly, in most cases, I think people are able to figure out the...
Since my tutorial about how to make and play the shibbabeh (Palestinian flute) has proved to be quite popular, I have decided to give you all an update, which presents you with two alternative sizes of this traditional flute. But first let me tell you how this all came about. As some of you know, I recently performed at the...
By Hanane Harram, Rotterdam (Netherlands) – Doc Jazz is a music artist-activist with songs for all generations. He has created a very nice form of art based on the Palestinian cause. You can feel the strong emotions in his fantastic songs. His music spans the entire musical horizon – it rocks, it grooves and it has a strong and powerful...
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