Anyone in whose music collection resides a solo bass record owes a debt of gratitude to Francois Rabbath. For without his pioneering work as a recording artist, conceptualist and teacher, the bass ...

You can learn more about François Rabbath, Johnny Hamil and the KC Bass Workshop at kcbassworkshop.com.

The Benson Great Hall at the Bethel University was decked out with 11 upright basses and one piano on Tuesday night. Only ten of the basses were not actually upright but resting on their sides for ...

Students will learn how composer François Rabbath developed innovative ways to play the double bass as a result of not having any formal training, and they will invent their own creative learning ...

KC Bass Workshop participants learn classical, jazz, rock, funk and bluegrass. That low, rhythmic pulse you’ll hear in the next few days? That's Kansas City enjoying its time as center of the ...

At 24, Rabbath, by then a highly accomplished if wholly unorthodox artist of the double bass, went to France with plans to attend the Paris Conservatory. He got in, but he couldn't afford the lessons ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Francois Rabbath, an internationally revered double bass player, taught a workshop class to fifty students at Shawnee Mission North on Friday on the opening day of the Sixth Annual KC Bass Workshop, ...

François Rabbath (born 1931 in Aleppo, Syria) is a contemporary French double-bass virtuoso, soloist, and composer. He was born into a Syrian family of musicians but his only instruction came from a ...

The Meadowlark Festival summer concerts are back, opening with the Trinkle Brass Works playing the Uncle Sam Jam on Wednesday night. Friday night's concert featured double bassist François Rabbath at ...

Patrons attending Friday night’s Meadowlark Music Festival concert at St. Paul United Methodist Church were treated to what will be a last. François Rabbath, an international superstar of the double ...

Every now and then, just when you thought you had things all neatly arranged in their proper order, someone comes along and not only upsets everything you've done, but demands that you change your ...