The longest-running festival of African films kicks off this weekend with a screening at the Hollywood Theatre. The week also includes several classical music performances (including one aimed a young ...

Colour of Music Festival, a Black classical music organization founded in Charleston, will present 7 concerts Feb. 4-7 at ...

Sibisi is a 19-year-old composer from Umlazi who has captured the attention of many. His piece for choir Khuzani has over ...

How is the classical music world changing? Looking back on a dizzying year, we pay particular attention to performers’ ...

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The 2025 Newport Classical Music Festival will present GRAMMY Award-winning soprano Karen Slack in African Queens on Saturday, July 12, 2025 at 8pm in The Breakers (44 Ochre Point Ave).

When nine students and a music professor set off on a fundraising tour from Fisk University in Tennessee in 1871, they had no idea what lay ahead. They just hoped their talents as singers and the ...

A master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career was powered as much by experimentation as by reverence for tradition. By Giovanni Russonello Foday Musa Suso, a griot, ...

Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites American ...

Discouraged by the lack of education in Black art song — songs made from poetry but written for operatic voice — she took a course at UM on African American and African diaspora song. Now an assistant ...

The 2024 Grammy awards will see the introduction of a new category: "best African music performance." When the category was announced last year, Grammys CEO Harvey Mason Jr. stated that it would be ...