The acclaimed singer-songwriter traveled through the past and present of American roots music with her own band, the reunited ...

June marks African American Music Appreciation Month, which was created by the late former President Jimmy Carter in 1979 to ...

Each day of the Rochester International Jazz Festival provides a bounty of choices for music lovers. Here are some options.

A master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career was powered as much by experimentation as by ...

Bradley Simmons, instructor of West African percussion at Duke University for nearly three decades, died at 72 on May 22.

As June honors the people, places, and cultural influences of Black Music Month, it would be impossible not to mention the impact that Afrobeats has had not just on hip-hop music, but pretty much all ...

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Performances will feature music and musical instruments from Africa, the United States of America, India, Trinidad and Tobago, and Europe. Featured performers include: The SC State Jazz Combo.

One Bay Area man who plays an unusual West African instrument recently discovered ... The 53-year-old also incorporates the banjo into his musical repertoire, blending the influence of blues ...

Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the American musical mainstream, creating popular new American music genres ...

He combined blues melodies with Latin American and African percussion instruments that at the time were not typically heard in rock music. His innovative style and signature guitar sound have made ...