Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the ...

I received in the mail a CD from Germany. Titled “Transfigured Tchaikovsky,” the recording features 16 piano transcriptions ...

The group will hold its 14th annual benefit concert Feb. 1-2 at East Palo Alto's Eastside College Preparatory School.

Cann knows that many of the names on this program are unknown, but she hopes Chicago audiences will give it a chance.

Chatham Community Library presents the "African American Musicians of North Carolina" exhibit, free to the public.

so portraits of African American musicians, much like other markers of status that were long denied to people of color in European-controlled territories, serve as a cultural acknowledgment of their ...

“Pianist and composer George Walker was definitely the greatest of the composers.” Walker (1922-2018) was the first African American concert pianist to perform as soloist with the great American ...

The Chitlin Circuit was a collection of hotels, performance venues and businesses where Black musicians are artists could travel. During segregation, African-American artists couldn’t perform at white ...

restaurants and entertainment venues where African Americans were welcomed. Features performances and interviews with vocalists, musicians, activists, historians and others. The Musicians’ Green ...

The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...

When pianist Michael Arnowitt first performed in Montpelier in the 1980s, he was better known in Vermont for his social justice activism than his pedigreed musical virtuosity. When he joins the ...