Foday Musa Suso, a player of traditional African stringed instruments, capped the 1992 International Performing Arts Festival on Saturday with a striking and hypnotic performance in Bushnell Park.

The Project explores Arabic, Turkish, Armenian, Eastern European, Celtic, Medieval, and West African music through original compositions and unexpected instrumentation, including tarhu duets.

“How come we’ve never heard of this beautiful instrument until now?” This was posted by a first-year college student to my world music course discussion board recently. He voiced what many of his ...