Fran “Lady Strings” Grace is among a small sisterhood of women trailblazers playing sacred steel guitar in African American ...

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Our Afropop travelers have arrived in Tanzania, kicking off an unforgettable journey in Dar es Salaam, the country's bustling cultural and financial hub. With a week full of live music, spontaneous ...

The Kumasi Trio led by Jacob Sam (Kwame Asare) recorded the first Ghanaian highlife song, 'Yaa Amponsah', as early as 1928 ...

Visual arts writer Marty Fugate looks at five shows to see at The Ringling, Ringling College, Sarasota Art Museum and Art ...

A few years ago, the phrase 'artists direct' started to do the rounds of the music industry. The same thing now with ...

Music lovers, listen up! South Africa is poised for an exhilarating 2025. The previous year unfolded as a remarkable chapter ...

Ahead of the New Translations' album release show Saturday, Feb. 22 at The Blue Room, singer Oliver Pierce talks to The ...

DAR ES SALAAM: A lady bassist simply known as Afande Vero was a major attraction when Air Jazz (Anga Anga) entertained the ...

Dave Holland’s arrival in New York coincided with one of the most transformative periods for Miles Davis and his Lost Quintet ...

You can hear it on the record. With its bleating and reedy samples, insistent and nervy instrumentation, all-pervasive ...

Drummer, singer, arranger and composer, Rim Akandoh Jnr and his Amamere Band have over the last few weeks, been spending several hours daily in a rehearsal studio at Cape Coast in the Central Region, ...