The Houston singer's experimental showcase launches Tuesday night at Eldorado Ballroom, Jones Hall and the Museum of Fine ...

At the Down County Jump Music Festival, June 13 and 14, experience music from artists Eva Salina, Pulso de Barro, Tamar Korn ...

That eclectic album featured guitarist Larry Carlton and other acclaimed session musicians while showcasing Houston’s vocal ...

Country is a product of our sonic melting pot and these Black artists are reclaiming the genre for the next gen of musicians ...

This episode of The String is a field report from the city that raised me in the 1970s and 80s and gave me my foundation in ...

"African American history has always suffered from neglect. But currently it is under attack. The assault comes from two ...

Early American banjo music is Black music, developed by enslaved Africans and rooted in Black culture through the early 1800s ...

Giddens drew upon her own background in the fiddle and banjo to similarly trace the banjo from rural African American communities in the South to contemporary largely-white folk music performance.

YOUNG, BLACK AND INDIE: Here are 26 African American indie-rock acts you should ... does feature takes on the traditional Irish folk songs Rocky Road to Dublin" and the especially moving, haunting ...

The soft-spoken, 6-foot-3, pole of a man with a banjo, was a giant in the history of the American fight for social ... off as a dust-covered relic of folk music history, an obstacle to Dylan ...

It was when we see him on stage, teaching the African song “Wimoweh ... even as we were singing kibbutz songs, we were singing American folk songs at camp and youth events.