Yamil Conga, performer and keynote speaker, and Michael Angelo, present Latin dance and music culture in Carter Hall for “De Africa al Caribe, The 5,000-mile journey of the Congo drum into the ...

From airport signs, restaurant menus on buzzing streets, and business cards in Hebrew, an Israeli visitor can almost feel at ...

Professionals in creative industries should have some form of protection against others exploiting what they have created, ...

Congo's Stand-Up Comics Take Aim at Country's Grinding War (Reuters) -Comedians in Congo are mining their country's chronic instability for laughs, entertaining people displaced by the war with the ...

Yang Enhua recently made a name for himself in August when he placed as a top 10 finalist in the sixth annual Danny Awards playing the erhu – a two-stringed bowed instrument used in traditional ...

Expat musicians in Korea have learned gugak (traditional music) and reinterpreted it in the musical languages of their home countries, thus globally promoting Korea's traditional music abroad. The ...

A west Belfast music school which has been running for more than three decades is to close its doors as a result of “sustained financial and environmental pressures”. Andersonstown Traditional & ...

With a slight inhale, 81-year-old Zhen Jinling brought the short, ridged horn up to his mouth. He pursed his lips and blew into his suona — the sound part birdcall, part trumpet fanfare. From a bench ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - From artists such as Vivaldi, Verdi, and Bocelli, Italy has produced some of the best and most famous musicians of all time. Now, the country is making way for a new name: Gadan. With ...

“Dùsgadh / Waking" is intense. It also confirms that Sunwise exists at the nexus of traditional music and the experimental. Rather than minimalist folk, this is a form of folk music drawing from, and ...

How talented and versatile is Rhiannon Giddens, the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera composer who played banjo and viola on Beyonce’s “Cowboy Carter” album? A co-founder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, ...