Since the late ’70s, the bassist has worked to map a musical route that mirrored the trans-Atlantic slave trade and birthed ...

A classically-trained violinist, she incorporated traditional instruments native to Latin America in Western-style scores to ...

World Literature Today's annual Puterbaugh Festival, to be held on campus Thursday and Friday, will feature translator, poet ...

Regardless of the genre, creating music is a compulsion for all serious artists. Brother and sister Ümit and Dr. Ayşe Önder ...

Using tapes of their grandfathers singing in Iran, Galeet Dardashti and Jacqueline Rafii are transcribing and adapting songs ...

But just because the S&P 500 is down doesn’t mean that spirits can’t be up. Love in the time of measles (or avian flu?) and all that. Even in the midst of the eggpocalyse, San Francisco cultural life ...

Founded in 2016, the group takes centuries-old songs traditionally sung a cappella and modernizes them with instruments, ...

Segerstrom Center for the Arts is celebrating its 40th anniversary with an exciting new season and the launch of a Hispanic ...

At their 1996 Cama'i performance, the group was young and experimental, bridging traditional music and modern styles. Today, ...

It’s hard to imagine, after years of loss and heartache, that a large auditorium could be filled with people who continue to ...

“The only reason I can speak English is because of hip hop,” Tamer Nafar raps in his new album, “In the Name of the Father, the Imam & John Lennon.” “I owe my life to this culture / I can exchange ...

British-Sudanese soul singer Elmiene talks about his new album, 'Sounds for Someone,' making connections and how he was able to finally ask the key questions about his relationship with his father.