Two hours west of New Orleans, the town of Opelousas is one of the best places to experience this irresistibly toe-tapping music genre created by Louisiana’s Black Creole community.

Borrowing from jazz and African rhythms, he forged a singular style that helped define music in his native Ghana — and West ...

Native Instruments is in preliminary insolvency proceedings, according to documentation reported by Create Digital Music. According to that report, a preliminary insolvency administrator has been ...

There are half a dozen traditional practices from Uganda that are inscribed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) Representative List of the Intangible ...

Guwahati (Assam) [India], January 17 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday attended the 'Bagurumba Dwhou 2026', the traditional Bodo Cultural Programme, in Assam's Guwahati, where he tried ...

She has a rich heritage, frequently navigating the intersection of her parents' backgrounds and cultures as she skillfully crafts a unique blend that embodies her identity. African-born, Berlin-based ...

The 9th edition of the All-African Music Awards (AFRIMA) took place recently in Lagos, Nigeria, celebrating the continent’s finest musical talents across multiple genres and regions. The event ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Kawika Pangelinan is fascinated by the haunting sound of the Hawaiian nose flute. “It’s a very gentle sound,” he said. ”It catches people’s ear. It’s not something that they ...

In 1956, Johan K. Louw, a missionary of the Dutch Reformed Mission School at Dowa in the then British African colony of Nyasaland (now Malawi), expressed one wish: to see his African flock praising ...

PLACE. A FIRST OF ITS KIND MUSIC PROGRAM IS SOON COMING TO WINSTON-SALEM. UNC SCHOOL OF THE ARTS IS LAUNCHING THE AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC INSTITUTE FOR STUDENTS TO LEARN ...

(RNS) — W. James Abbington Jr., an expert on Black religious music known for his editing, teaching and playing of congregational music, has died at the age of 65. GIA Publications, for whom he worked ...