The music that the world now knows as salsa would probably not exist if not for the vision of Willie Colón. While Eddie Palmieri’s La Perfecta had been plying the two-trombone sound for years, Colón ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Laura Atkinson and Justin Hicks of Louisville Public Media about shape note singing and its influence across the American musical tradition.

Addis Ababa, February 20, 2026 (ENA) –The President of the Pan-African Tourism Board (PATB), Mariam Lesian, has recognized ...

First installment of eight-album series arrives March 20; live performance set for Bang on a Can’s Long Play Festival.

Cedar series highlights Somali verse, jazz-infused hip-hop and Midwestern folk and rock opera; The Black Europe Film Festival returns to the Main Cinema; and The Poetic Diaspora hosts an album release ...

"American Folk" then became a tribute to the older musical roots that both Guthrie and Parton drew from: Shaker devotional tunes, psalm singing from the New England hymnody, Appalachian fiddle tunes ...