They're also available in different shapes — oval, flower, butterfly and shamrock, for example. Yo-yos make great portable projects, and once I start sewing them, I don't want to stop.

Yo-Yo Ma, left, performs with two members of the Silk Road Ensemble at Carnegie Hall in 2002. (Osamu Honda/AP) As one of America’s most renowned classical musicians and a UN peace ambassador, Yo ...

This year is the 10th anniversary of ever-curious cellist Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project, whose musical highway from China to the Mediterranean runs right through Persia (now Iran).

World-famous, Grammy-winning composer and musician Yo-Yo Ma, along with the Silk Road Ensemble, visits Philadelphia for a concert at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday, August 11th.

The metaphor of creation and destruction guides the performance art project between RISD illustration students and the musicians of the Silk Road Project, an educational foundation directed by famed ...

A little more than 15 minutes into “The Music of Strangers,” a new documentary by director Morgan Neville about Yo-Yo Ma and his pan-cultural Silk Road Project, the world-famous cellist is ...