Samara Joy is set to receive the Ella Fitzgerald Award at the 2025 Montreal Jazz Festival on June 28 at Maison symphonique, ...

Rhiannon Giddens is the the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera composer who played banjo and viola on Beyonce’s “Cowboy Carter” ...

Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti has been posthumously inducted into the 2025 Grammy Hall of Fame for his politically ...

Lumanyano Mzi’s life in music started almost as soon as he could hold a drumstick. Born in Cape Town in 1995, he grew up in Nyanga East and later Delft, surrounded by rhythm and melody.

The Recording Academy is switching up its Country Album category after Beyoncé became the first Black artist to win Best Country Album at the 67th Academy Awards in February for Cowboy Carter, her ...

From the Cowboy Junkies to “Sweet Charity” and free fun in Montclair, there is a lot to see and do in the Bay Area this ...

As the drummer for the legacy band Big Brother and the Holding Company, Dave Getz played on one of the greatest rock albums of all time, “Cheap Thrills,” a No. 1 record in 1968 that made a ...

"Juneteenth marks both a long, hard night of slavery and subjugation and the promise of a brighter morning to come," Biden ...

Though he powered classics by Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, and Chuck Berry, innovative drummer Fred Below is fading into obscurity.

By the early 2000s, Bongo Flava was no longer an experiment—it was a movement. Its infectious rhythms, Swahili wordplay, and ...

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Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe will present its third annual Juneteenth Arts Festival on June 22. This year’s festival will ...