The book, edited by Kelly McCartney and Rissi Palmer, pays tribute to Black women in the music industry, including Linda ...

The toughest performance of Fred C. VanNess's career wasn't on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, or touring New England with his one-man show ...

Historic and modern protest music By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Modern protest music owes its existence to centuries of ...

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Xian Zhang has been very much in the news as she launches her first season as Seattle Symphony’s new music director. Following the Sept. 13 opening gala concert, last week brought another milestone: ...

The 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Music was awarded to Rhiannon Giddens’ and Michael Abels’ opera Omar, which is based on the 1831 book A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar ibn Said. Said was a Muslim ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Award-winning singer-musician Rhiannon Giddens has become the latest artist to call off an appearance at the Kennedy Center, which has been in upheaval since President Donald Trump ...

Of course, an official Juneteenth event would probably not have included Steve Martin, although Giddens made her position clear that everybody should be able to make a claim on the banjo now, however ...

Juneteenth Special: Historian Clint Smith on Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America Rhiannon Giddens on Pulitzer-Winning Opera “Omar” About Enslaved Muslim Scholar Omar ibn Said “Another ...

Rhiannon Giddens is down at the river, carrying a flame of heritage, and she’s inviting anyone who wants to join her to come down and light their own wicks. Rivers are traditionally sites of salvation ...