Willie Colón, salsa pioneer, has died at 75

Willie Colón, the salsa legend who took the genre to new heights while recording more than two dozen albums for Fania Records ...
Sahan Journal

From Somali poetry to experimental folk: Twin Cities artists debut new works at The Cedar

Cedar series highlights Somali verse, jazz-infused hip-hop and Midwestern folk and rock opera; The Black Europe Film Festival returns to the Main Cinema; and The Poetic Diaspora hosts an album release ...
WLRN

Seraphic Fire's 'American Folk' celebrates the country's cultural essence

"American Folk" then became a tribute to the older musical roots that both Guthrie and Parton drew from: Shaker devotional tunes, psalm singing from the New England hymnody, Appalachian fiddle tunes ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

These Black Georgia women are blues legends you may not know, but should

Meet four Black Georgia women who lived and sang the blues who you may not know ... yet: Ida Cox, Cora Mae Bryant, Beverly ...

ENTERTAINMENT: UCA hosts ‘Simon & Garfunkel Story’; ASO musicians set sensory-friendly concert

The concert-style tribute show, with a full live band performing a set list of nearly 30 songs and using state-of-the-art video projection, photos and original film footage, covers the careers of Paul ...
QNS

Mongolian folk fusion band ‘Tuvergen’ gallops into Flushing Town Hall this Sunday

Tuvergen, a Mongolian folk fusion band, is galloping into Flushing Town Hall with a high-energy, horse-powered performance in honor of the Lunar New Year this ...