Spirit of Africa, part of the Seattle Center Festál series, returns on Saturday, May 10, from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Armory ...

Programming a chamber music concert on May 5 with Cinco de Mayo as an amorphous organizing principle came off brilliantly in the hands of the Chamber Music Society of St. Louis, who packed the ...

Saheem Ali’s musical, about the goddess of music finding refuge and love at an Afro-jazz club in Mombasa, Kenya, has been ...

While lutes and stringed instruments have been staples in cultures from around the world for thousands of years, the origins ...

If you haven't seen "Sinners" yet, you might want to put your newspaper down for later reading. Because there's an aspect of ...

Everybody knows Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Joni Mitchell. But what about other folk musicians who inspired a new generation of ...

Multiple music festivals across the globe are celebrating African music throughout the whole year, and Billboard is rounding ...

Coogler thus uses two forms of traditional music – African-American blues and Irish folk – as a way to illuminate the respective painful colonial pasts that the humans and the vampires share.

About OmoLuther OmoLuther (Michael Adekunle Luther) is a Nigerian-Swedish singer, songwriter, and producer whose music blends pop, R&B, Afrobeat, and African folk influences. His debut project, Mr ...

Organisers are looking to next year's milestone, with the National Folk Festival to celebrate 60 years of music and dancing. Thousands of people have turned out in Canberra for a feast of music ...

“Sinners” filmmaker Ryan Coogler tells IndieWire about his reverence for Irish music and its narrative importance in his vampire film. But it’s not the Klan that interrupts the opening night ...

Medici on 57th and Ali’s on 63rd — were all part of the folk revival movement. From the end of the 1950s through the early 1970s, acoustic music and songs from rural areas became popular with ...