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 ...

I’d come to watch precisely because no one of Roan’s stature had been slated to play what have been, to date, the American ...

The guitarist, composer and band leader fused Ghanaian music and funk to create tracks sampled around the world.

The Paris-based Buda Musique label introduced the popular Ethiopiques CD series in 1997, with the aim of re-releasing singles ...

India, Feb. 6 -- The Ethiopian pavilion has emerged as one of the standout attractions at the 39th Surajkund International ...

The 1960s folk revival may have peaked by the middle of the decade, but several influential artists carried on the tradition to the end of the decade and beyond. While Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and others ...