Bella-Mūsīqā entertains audiences using a variety of Mediterranean musical styles ranging from North African, Middle Eastern and Turkish to Spanish Andalusian, flamenco, and original compositions. Bella-Mūsīqā was co-founded in summer 2006 by two MTSU faculty: ethnomusicologist David Pruett, who has been performing Middle Eastern music for over seventeen years, and Roger Hudson, an accomplished composer, guitarist and oud player with five albums to his name (two releases with Pamplin Music, two with Tikal Records, and one with Acoustic America Records); many of Roger Hudson's compositions are published by Mel Bay Publications

Bella-Mūsīqā celebrates frequent performances in the greater Nashville and Middle Tennessee area, including guest appearances on Live in Studio C on Nashville Public Radio, annual concerts for the Tennessee Guitar Festival and the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society, and frequent performances at Middle Tennessee State University.

For questions or booking, please feel free to contact me at

dpruett@mtsu.edu  or (615) 904-8354 (office tel.)

Excerpts from the our recent featured appearance on the

television program Soundcheck on MTTV (spring 2008)

Each Saturday evening

 Kalamata's Mediterranean Cuisine, 6:00-8:30PM, 3764 Hillsboro Pike, Glendale Center, Nashville, TN 37215

15 March

Middle Tennessee Guitar Festival, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 8PM

26 March

MTSU World Percussion Ensemble concert, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 8PM

1 June

Traveler's Rest Music Festival, Traveler's Rest Plantation and Museum, Nashville, TN, 4-7PM

16 July

Interludes (lecture-demonstration on music of the Middle East), Tennessee Arts Academy, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, 2:25-3:10PM

17 July

Tennessee Arts Academy, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, 11:30 AM - noon