Alabi Olusola Peter’s love for music started at age seven and he hasn’t looked back since. From teaching himself to play the guitar to building the musical instrument with locally sourced materials at ...

Welcome to Theater News, a regular column by longtime reviewer Anita W. Harris. Look for it most Thursdays. Or sign up for ...

Catching the 1971 detective story Shaft one late night on a UHF station, or listening to my mother’s snap-crackle-pop vinyl ...

During Women’s History Month, the D.C.-based String Queens reflect on their journey as Black women in music, blending genres, teaching future musicians, honoring their predecessors, and performing for ...

SFJAZZ’s youngest-ever resident artistic director, Wilkins has concerts in San Francisco, Santa Cruz and Half Moon Bay March ...

I still feel like that girl writing rock songs in my bedroom in Barranquilla,' said Colombian music icon Shakira of her Rock ...

Planned concert featuring Cuban legends Chucho Valdes and Arturo Sandoval changed directions after Valdes’ cancellation.

The New Orleans Jazz Museum, along with the Louisiana State Museum and Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser, will reveal "The First Piano Professors and the Lost Music of Early New Orleans" exhibit.

Nigerian singer and songwriter CKay has criticised the popularised use of the term “Afrobeats,” describing it as a convenient ...

In August 1941, Wifredo Lam (1902-1982) arrived in Cuba, returning to the country of his birth after nearly a two-decade ...

Highlife, one of Ghana rsquo;s most celebrated and internationally recognized music genres, carries a rich history that ...

I thought Pam was great,” Joan Armatrading says of her early lyric-writing partner, Pam Nestor. “She was totally different from me. Pam did all the things that I didn’t d ...