Festival season is nearly upon us! Soon, the island’s weekend agenda will burst with festivals that celebrate music, culture, art and local life, spreading events from the villages, to the sea and the ...

A group digitally preserving the island’s fragile musical heritage and Cypriot culture asks what role music has had in society Let’s take, for instance, the ‘poiitarides’ – or ‘itinerant poets’, as ...

In Cyprus, the violin is more than an instrument, it is a voice in the island’s cultural history. An instrument that has marked life’s most important moments for centuries. From lively wedding ...

With members from either side of Nicosia’s Turkish-Greek dividing line, the band Buzz’ Ayaz say they are deliberately trying to give voice to the whole of the city and “build bridges” between its ...